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@BobbyBriggs
I live in a wreck of a ground floor Warner flat in E10. Slowly renovating it. Sadly in the 1980s and 90s it was butchered by a DIY have-a-go hero, including a chimney breast removed and propped up by two vertical timber beams, and a spectacularly illegal RSJ holding up the floor of the upstairs flat, supported at one end by an acro prop stood on a joist. When anyone walks around upstairs the whole of the front of my flat vibrates. Still, it's stood up for at least 20 years so I doubt it's about to collapse just yet, and this weirdness meant that I was able to get it for a fair amount below the asking price.
Having said that, I want to make everything proper. I can do most things DIY apart from proper buildery stuff. Can anyone recommend a builder who can move my back door from one room to another, and sort out the RSJ and chimney breast?