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I'm sure the building won't collapse if you do it. Honestly this is one of those over worrying moments ask @ToughButterCup

Nail a bit of 2x2 to top chord, leave a 25mm gap all around if you like. Job done. They've said what they have to say. It reality we know it will be fine.

Try snapping a nail and try snapping a screw. Think the boffins call it shear or tension.

Reading Churchill my early life atm. He says something like misfortune is a good thing. It teaches you lessons that if things went well you would not of learned. I always get a spec of lintel manufacturers nowadays and make sure that the always thorough and detail minded brick layers follow these lintel schedules.

Mdpe joints are the devil's work. I had an elbow on a stand pipe, diverted to a straight joint when the stand pipe was changed to a house feed. The plumber did the connection for me and we testes befire backfill. The connection was fine 2016-2019 as confirmed by meter not turning when not using water. It started leaking this year. Apparently 40l per hour although I'm amazed it was that much. Water board dug up their meter to check, No joy. I told homeowner to contact insurance, they told him to content nhbc, I told him there was no nhbc and would not likely be covered any way. He contacted insurance again, what a surprise he was covered. Such honest companies these insurance bodies are.

Hilti gun noggins as @Mr Punter says.

Put at SD lintel in with floor joists above. Realised too late, not that anyone else did. Came on here tried to get a crash course in Kn to kg. Paid an SE a couple of hundred quid to do proper calcs and work out all was ok.

Didnt cost you owt though!

Probably okay at that. If dry lined then 25mm is gone minimum to that, then 20mm to skirting. That leaves 30mm overhanging joist. Are you really going to be able to apply point loads to 30mm and make a floor board deflect?

Anyone who studs with screws when nails are readily available is an idiot. End of.

You'd be better off in a consumer rights or diy type forum. I'm sure someone will come along and help but it's quite a long winded post. Sorry to be blunt.

If your not beam filling the blockwork or fixing trusses on that spine wall surely the noggins are doing a job. I'd bring them maybe an inch or so away from the wall can double up as plasterboard perimeter nogs then.

Align with bottom.

With respect this is a self build forum.

Cheapest in local stock. Never even looked at brand myself

Me too. Integrated dishwashers are the devil's work. Utilitarian utilities are where it's at

Surely the fixing at top and bottom of these concealed metal strings is more important than any fixings inbetween?! If those two points are rock solid and it can't twist over then where's it going? Obvs would need someone qualified to give you fixing spec.

Or for the poor man's test like mine if you live in an area where pressure is crap (technical plumbing term) and you're waiting ages for a bucket to fill at tap just spend the extra 200 or so to upgrade to 32mm and be satisfied you've done all you could have...

Samsung has 5 year warranty

Shouldn't people check local pressure before deciding?

someone here has done it im sure..search perhaps but might be hard

Looks foreign to me

also bonus points for anyone who can see the last common rafters running out on that picture. The extension is built half a brick longer on one wall than the other. I set out off the front wall. Did realise when marking wall plate but kept with set out off front wall incase it effected bond of tiles when setting out from gable. Complete idiots they are. Cant wait till they fit the garage door and the customer realises...

I used scrap 8x2 off the cut rafters for the infill. Because the valley was built off a lay Board I set the infill 2 or 3 " out from the centre of the valley. I didn't like the gaping hole in the middle so got a thin sheet of ply and ripped it down to smooth this out. GRP valley sits on ply, lath nails into 8x2 Some use thin ply for the GRP with 2x2 noggins out outside for lath fixings

The ally does look good but it's impossible to justify the price if you've got an eye on selling in future unless it's a super premium home. Think @Russell griffiths used something posh?