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You appear to think that a flat roof rafter isn't load bearing, just for clarity, could you confirm this please.
You appear to think that a flat roof rafter isn't load bearing, just for clarity, could you confirm this please.
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If only for pedantic glee,i shall state that it will be load bearing,in the modern,BC submitted plans way...
It will be designed for both static and dynamic loads,to accept stress due to temperature change and age,for wind,snow,and foot traffic (maintenance purposes)
There are other anticipated loads,which may be intermittent,such as waterlogging or scaffold bracing.
Superfluous additions,rely on such guaranteed load bearing abilities,such as PV panels,whose mounting systems,are designed around expected,hidden certainties
not that a number of photovoltaic,tile crunching apex monkeys care,as they paslode and velcro to whatever,willy nilly,and sail off to change business name three times and dissolve forever,leaving those with both knowledge and a conscience,to sort the casserole of nonsense...
Breathe in...breathe out...
It will be designed for both static and dynamic loads,to accept stress due to temperature change and age,for wind,snow,and foot traffic (maintenance purposes)
There are other anticipated loads,which may be intermittent,such as waterlogging or scaffold bracing.
Superfluous additions,rely on such guaranteed load bearing abilities,such as PV panels,whose mounting systems,are designed around expected,hidden certainties
not that a number of photovoltaic,tile crunching apex monkeys care,as they paslode and velcro to whatever,willy nilly,and sail off to change business name three times and dissolve forever,leaving those with both knowledge and a conscience,to sort the casserole of nonsense...Breathe in...breathe out...
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Yes of course it is load bearing, as regards the boarding and outer layers, and as has been said any weight that needs to go on it, like a roofer. But putting a few holes in the supporting timber (that has probably been designed to take that into consideration) is not going to weaken it in any was that is worth worrying about. Any one that does worry is just suffering from a lack of experience. There are joists and beams in houses up and down the length of the country with far worse knocked through and out of them and they won't be going any place anytime. If is was supporting a massive corner bath I might give it a bit of thought but otherwise? Steel sister beams, whatever next....
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Hi Guys,
Thanks so much for your input.
The engineer inspected it yesterday. He felt there was no problem. The joists are short enough for it not to affect it and he's going to write a note to BC saying so.
Thanks again,
Regards
Steve
Thanks so much for your input.
The engineer inspected it yesterday. He felt there was no problem. The joists are short enough for it not to affect it and he's going to write a note to BC saying so.
Thanks again,
Regards
Steve
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Plumber went in too deep through a few joists........ so make sure your liability insurance is paid up.........
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Hubble Bubble, Toil and Rubble. someone should have told Wally the window fitter to fit catnics.
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first GRAMMAR/SPELLING ALERT!!! it's fantasies. apart from that, my only fantasy is an endless supply of Theakston's Old Peculier. 
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That looks like a builder/developer error...the plumber might have dipped the ceiling,but it looks suspiciously like some other hero,finished it off
I have seen the exact same scenario,where some yuppie hero,dropped the front,to replace stone work,and thought the joists running across the front,would mean less propping...
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Crikey Tel you're getting to be a right old Pedant.first GRAMMAR/SPELLING ALERT!!! it's fantasies. apart from that, my only fantasy is an endless supply of Theakston's Old Peculier.
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Think I might of drilled into one of those composite 'I' beam joists today, putting up my Next luminaire in my new build today 
Catnic?
Crikey!
Haven't heard that term for a while...
Not since I last told a client he needed to replace his Bessemer beam...
which wasn't a popular comment!
Crikey!
Haven't heard that term for a while...
Not since I last told a client he needed to replace his Bessemer beam...
which wasn't a popular comment!
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Next are still in business?Think I might of drilled into one of those composite 'I' beam joists today, putting up my Next luminaire in my new build today
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Squid
Do you mean a Bresummer Beam?
You've done your monthly rum quota in one day again haven't you, you naughty Pirate......
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Bresummer beam!
Sorry...and me the total pedantic too!
Too much rum, for sure...
Anyway, he threw a whole load of magnolia paint at it, listed it through another agent...
and 2 years later the house still hadn't sold cos the surveyors weren't fooled.
Finally, I visited it again, and the master bedroom had fallen into the living-room!
How I laughed...as I walked away...
All those fancy chrome sockets didn't do the trick...
The fancy new kitchen was a waste of money too, cos the units had sagged several centimetres due to the floor joists sagging...
You won't be surprised to learn that the fuseboard hadn't been upgraded...
Sorry...and me the total pedantic too!
Too much rum, for sure...
Anyway, he threw a whole load of magnolia paint at it, listed it through another agent...
and 2 years later the house still hadn't sold cos the surveyors weren't fooled.
Finally, I visited it again, and the master bedroom had fallen into the living-room!
How I laughed...as I walked away...
All those fancy chrome sockets didn't do the trick...
The fancy new kitchen was a waste of money too, cos the units had sagged several centimetres due to the floor joists sagging...
You won't be surprised to learn that the fuseboard hadn't been upgraded...
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