I need a builder!

[K50 DEL]

Anyone know any builders in the Yate area that will actually turn up and quote me for a small bit of work I need doing.

You'd think that in these "credit crunch" times they'd be falling over themselves for work......

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

I have a brilliant guy working on my hosue at present, how big a job is it? I could ask him if he can fit it ni and he has 6 months work to do for me but might be able to do it in between.

[K50 DEL]

Pretty small,

I wouldn't have thought it was more than a day's worth, maybe less.

[_Batty_]

K50 DEL said:

Pretty small,

I wouldn't have thought it was more than a day's worth, maybe less.

shame its only a days work, or i'd have done it
what you having done (if you don't mind me asking)

[K50 DEL]

_Batty_ said:

K50 DEL said:

Pretty small,

I wouldn't have thought it was more than a day's worth, maybe less.

shame its only a days work, or i'd have done it
what you having done (if you don't mind me asking)

OK Stick with me here!!

I removed a false wall in my kitchen, buried within it is a vertical piece of 8" x 2" wood that runs up through my ceiling and into the newel post at the top of my stairs.

I want this piece of wood removed, but I'm not sure if it is actually a support for my staircase.
If it is, then a different support will need to be installed so that the floor area is clear.

You can see the top of the piece of wood where it disappears into the ceiling here


Thoughts?

Edited by K50 DEL on Wednesday 3rd December 07:14

Edited by K50 DEL on Wednesday 3rd December 07:15

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

just joking - I will have a word wth him.

[Slagathore]

K50 DEL said:

_Batty_ said:

K50 DEL said:

Pretty small,

I wouldn't have thought it was more than a day's worth, maybe less.

shame its only a days work, or i'd have done it
what you having done (if you don't mind me asking)

OK Stick with me here!!

I removed a false wall in my kitchen, buried within it is a vertical piece of 8" x 2" wood that runs up through my ceiling and into the newel post at the top of my stairs.

I want this piece of wood removed, but I'm not sure if it is actually a support for my staircase.
If it is, then a different support will need to be installed so that the floor area is clear.

You can see the top of the piece of wood where it disappears into the ceiling here





Thoughts?

We've just done similar to what you want to achieve in our house.

Instead of a vertical piece of wood, we had a brickwork pier. He took down the pier and put a lintel in.

I think it's gunna be slightly different for you.

To give you a rough idea on time, it took my mate less than a day to do. Yours might be a bit more complicated, but roughly around a day to do something like that.

I'll be seeing him tomorrow, so I'll ask him then, try and show him the picture aswell.

Edited by sgathore on Thursday 13th November 20:04

[K50 DEL]

sgathore said:

K50 DEL said:

_Batty_ said:

K50 DEL said:

Pretty small,

I wouldn't have thought it was more than a day's worth, maybe less.

shame its only a days work, or i'd have done it
what you having done (if you don't mind me asking)

OK Stick with me here!!

I removed a false wall in my kitchen, buried within it is a vertical piece of 8" x 2" wood that runs up through my ceiling and into the newel post at the top of my stairs.

I want this piece of wood removed, but I'm not sure if it is actually a support for my staircase.
If it is, then a different support will need to be installed so that the floor area is clear.

You can see the top of the piece of wood where it disappears into the ceiling here.


Thoughts?

We've just done similar to what you want to achieve in our house.

Instead of a vertical piece of wood, we had a brickwork pier. He took down the pier and put a lintel in.

I think it's gunna be slightly different for you.

To give you a rough idea on time, it took my mate less than a day to do. Yours might be a bit more complicated, but roughly around a day to do something like that.

I'll be seeing him tomorrow, so I'll ask him then, try and show him the picture aswell.

Edited by sgathore on Thursday 13th November 20:04

Thanks, I'd be grateful.

[K50 DEL]

Any update?

[Slagathore]

Sorry!

Completely forgot to ask him.

He's back tomorrow so I shall try and remember to ask him then!!

[hornetrider]

Mate, I'm no builder but I did exactly the same thing as you in my old gaff in Sadley. Removed the entire understairs cupboard to free up some space in my kitchen. That wood is not supporting anything imo! Maybe a cross-post in P+P will get some more opinions?

[K50 DEL]

hornetrider said:

Mate, I'm no builder but I did exactly the same thing as you in my old gaff in Sadley. Removed the entire understairs cupboard to free up some space in my kitchen. That wood is not supporting anything imo! Maybe a cross-post in P+P will get some more opinions?

That's exactly what I've done - the cupboard took up way too much space so I removed it.
I think you're probably right, I doubt that wood is holding up anything, but I want to be certain!

[hornetrider]

It's far too thin to be structural, looks the same as mine. Get the hacksaw out!

[K50 DEL]

hornetrider said:

It's far too thin to be structural, looks the same as mine. Get the hacksaw out!

Don't want to risk it I'm afraid - if I'm wrong and it does support the half landing / turn in the staircase then if I remove it, knowing my luck the stairs will fall down!!

I'll wait for confirmation from a builder.....

[jas xjr]

i need some building work doing , about 20k's worth.
asked three builders to quote,only 1 turned up
the builder that turned up said that he was struggling to find work for his brickies,other trades were fine at the moment

[Slagathore]

Right!

Sorry, once again. I'd left for college by the time he had got round.

He should be round again this afternoon to finish some plastering, and I'm dfinitely not going out this time, so I'll show him then!

[Slagathore]

He's been.

He doesn't recommend removing it.

It's one piece that runs right up to your newel post. Which means that it's sorta supporting the half landing.

If it's removed it will cause the stairs to flex/twist. Maybe not enough to fall down, but enough to make 'em unsafe. I'm guessing with that little bit of movement you might see some cracks appearing in the plaster on the surrounding areas.

He did say it was a bit hard to judge things from that photo, though.

Without actually seeing it he can't really judge it properly, but he thinks it's probably best to leave it .

[K50 DEL]

sgathore said:

He's been.

He doesn't recommend removing it.

It's one piece that runs right up to your newel post. Which means that it's sorta supporting the half landing.

If it's removed it will cause the stairs to flex/twist. Maybe not enough to fall down, but enough to make 'em unsafe. I'm guessing with that little bit of movement you might see some cracks appearing in the plaster on the surrounding areas.

He did say it was a bit hard to judge things from that photo, though.

Without actually seeing it he can't really judge it properly, but he thinks it's probably best to leave it .

Thanks for talking to him, could you please ask him what options I have for removing it - leaving it in place really isn't an option!

[Slagathore]

Would probably need some pictures from other angles. So he can see if he's got anything else to work with.

He did say it was hard to be truly accurate with just that one picture.

If you can get some more pics up, I'll try and show 'em to him.

[crisisjez]

Prob the easiest way round the problem would be a crank beam RSJ (You`d loose a little bit of head height under the landing but at least your stairs won`t fall down.)