Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Flat roof extensions can often offer the best design solution for many different types of house extension. Simple, discreet and not adding extra height to your overall plans, they can also be more ...

Last week I was downloading some photos from my digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mount Desert Island, off the ...

We have a 23-year-old felt flat roof on a ground floor extension five metres square which is cracking and needs to be replaced. We do not want to have a "torch-on" felt roof (neighbours had their ...