epsilonGreedy

I intend to use grey edging blocks along the garage door entrance and I am debating where the dpm under the floor slab should end at the point where the slab edge meets the entrance edging blocks. In the attached diagram: E = edging block 200mm deep, 100mm high at the leading edge and 125 high where the block meets the slab. C = poured concrete slab. HC = hardcore S = Sand blinding B = coursing block H = Heavy concrete foundation block R = Approach ramp in 2" clean limestone with dressing chippings on top Hashed area is strong concrete cavity fill. My concern is that the edging blocks might wobble loose under the traction vehicle tires. To reduce that risk I would prefer to have a mortar joint between the blocks and the leading face of the concrete slab. That however would allow moisture ingress into the slab. It is a single story garage with a typical roof overhang. Where should the dpm membrane shown in the thick blue felt end at the door threshold?

Just a hunch... £20 to £40 p/a.

One of my self build neighbours is helping plus one other hired help because I only have 1.5 effective arms at the moment. On local advice we are doing a rough tampdown to be followed by "latex" layer once the roof is on. I hope a rough tamped finish will provide a good mechanical key for the final few mm of hi-tech leveling compound.

I am prepared for some relationship tensions this evening when Swmbo helps. "No not like that, Pete W on BuildHub said like an upside down hospital corner... grrr.. didn't your mother ever teach you how to make a bed...."

I am going to lay my 1200 gauge DPM today ahead of the ground baring concrete slab pour tomorrow. It is a thick slab (6" to 7") formed by a boundary of inner wall concrete blocks 225mm high. How to I shape the membrane to the inner 90 degree corners? Leave the membrane uncut and stuff it up to the corner with a few ruffles as a result. Cut it at the corner like wrapping a Christmas present and then tape up the adjacent flaps. As (2) but tape in a custom supplementary corner piece.

Tomorrow (Thursday) 11am. You are welcome to observe or lend a hand.

The few boutique hotel bathrooms I have encountered cursed with them have seemed poorly cleaned at counter level behind the basin. I would not consider fitting a counter top basin.

They are the default light block option at my favourite BM.

-30 ? ?

Yes. I wish I had not bothered with the steroid injection because I could cope with the tennis elbow but now tying my shoe laces is a major achievement. Defo not fit enough for one armed combat in the global warming lpg thread.

Have you witnessed my Swmbo driving?

typing this single handed following an elbow joint injection... would 3.7n fibolites be a decent option for the inner cavity wall of a single story garage? all above dpc

Right I now get the motivation, far more value in your single post than the other ding/dong thread between practicing brickies. I guess material scientists have tested the relative friction between a dry brick/dpc joint plane and a brick/mortar/dpc joint plane.

Really pleased to read this confirmation, any idea what motivates the notion of mortar below dpc and/or dpm? Is it a concern the brick below might puncture the dpc?

I did not engage because I could not see the grand revelation you thought you had presented. What did your graphs show: The area compensated temperature record shows a 0.5 degree rise over 120 years, which is just a smidgen more the natural long term rebound from the little ice age. There is no hockey stick unless a highly selective period is used (1970 to 1998). Just when co2 output was ramping up post WWII the temperature fell for a few decades. Just when China's co2 output went stratospheric we experienced the global warming pause. When pre WWII co2 output was a small fraction of today's output we had the dustbowl temperature peak similar to current temperatures. Your graph seems to disprove a link between co2 and global warming.

Have been reading up some more, here is a depressing thread on another forum. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/laying-dpc-should-this-be-on-mortar-or-not.327349/ In summary there is no definitive standard because those responsible skip the nitty gritty detail and builders have their own standards. Having seen the awful dpc mortar bed on my own Bryant Homes built house I think the notion of brick/mortar/dpc/mortar or worse brick/mortar/dpm/mortar/dpc/mortar, is asking for trouble. Think I will adopt a welsh convention which is brick/dpm/dpc/mortar.

Yes @romarioa diagram or picture would help. I am about to do the same on my build yet I am struggling to picture what you intend to do. For a conventional brick/block cavity wall construction a 200mm or more excess flap of dpc will be left on the inside wall to be tucked in with the dpm when the floor screed is added once the roof is on.

If Greenland is an outlier why is it the most studied epicenter of global warming concern? Indeed, which raises the question why the climate change alarmists use every forest fire or hurricane as evidence of global warming. The whole debate has succumbed to fanatical tribal believe mechanisms not experienced in the UK since the religious conflicts at the time of Elizabeth I.

Could you point to the hockey stick? The upwards blip at the end of the graphic is just a rebound from the little ice age up to 1950.

A colleague at work installed one after a strike, it was the tallest 4-story house at the highest end on a modern dense estate. The damage sustained was worse than the initial electrical problems, they later discovered the cavity wall air had briefly heated and expanded with mild explosive force.

The odd thing about the contesting theories in this debate is that solar activity clearly wins on correlation, conversely co2 and its greenhouse effect is convincing from a causation perspective. The latest theory is solar system orbital resonance, again strong on correlation though the causation is unfathomable to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CX8X1n6i0

The medieval warming was just local to where, Greenland? The Vikings were quite happy about that since it sustained agriculture in Greenland. Then there was a 1 degree warming at the Sargasso Sea and Europe. Is @Ed Daviesalso a denier since his graph shows it. It tripped up Al Gore and all those climate scientists predicting a ice free summer Arctic by 2014. The Roman vineyards in Yorkshire flourished because it was unusually wet?

You are at least honest enough to plot the data from 1895 and so highlight the climatic warming of the dust bowl years which then begs the question, where is the hockey stick? It is also accepted on both sides of the debate that co2 emissions prior to WWII could not have affected the climate, which then raises a question about what caused the warm up in the 1920's and 1930's. Further questions: What caused the Medieval Warming? What caused the global warming pause over the past 15 years? What caused the Roman warm period or the little ice age? Did you adjust your data to eliminate those US climate stations that have become enveloped by urban development? Does posing these difficult questions make one a "crank"?

Visit some DIY shed e.g. B&Q and sit down with the resident kitchen/bathroom designer. Within an hour your should be able to fly around your proposed bathroom or kitchen on screen. Then buy yourself a handheld laser distance measure and visit a few housing estate showrooms, when you see something you like whip out our laser measure. A minimum wc/shower room should be possible in 2m x 2.5m, the 2.3m x 3.6m example in your plan is ginormous.

According to much of the fringe science thinking I have been following in recent months the earth is on the cusp of a grand solar minimum and heading into the new little ice age, I say wear your CO2 footprint with pride as it is the only thing that will save us from ice festivals on the Thames ?