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luckily we had a very experienced and competent builder, chosen on the strength of work i'd seen of his on friend's houses, and had a great experience with him. (we're not in london though so not worth giving you his details)
as terlg says, i'd probably pull the plaster off either end of the RSJ to see where it's sitting and what it's sitting on. the wall's going to need re-plastering anyway so you might as well!
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Just seen this super useful diagram, thanks so much for knocking it up. Makes understanding a lot easier when inevitably things can get lost in translation. I'll look again with the torch to see if I can see said padstones and if not peel more plaster away.
@tgr @bigshape thanks for explaining this. Do you think you could expect your usual builder to know about these things? If you don't know no worries, you've all be so useful already.