Canski

It amazes me how often we see this.

Check out the litecast website it gives you sectional views of floor make ups. I

I just had a bill for removing a grab load of tree stumps. I knew it might be a bit more than the usual £220 for mixed soil and rubble but £320 was a bit of a shock.

Depends but usually we start at DPC level.

Would it not be easier to fix the ply to the wall prior to plastering ? saves chopping off the bonding and the mess ?

If anyone wants this I can pass it on FOC plus delivery charges or collect from Warwick / Evesham. It seems that it is no use to me.

Oh lordy lordy ( remember that ? ) but .... from your description of the block being laid there is no mortar in the middle. Do the same to an upright block and the result would be the same. No logic there in your comment.

If I hadn't seen your engineers drawings I would have built the outer skin to the top of your concrete using either a cut block of a split block ( 120 mm) and a course of concrete brick (80mm) to bring you level with the top of concrete. Then I would have carried on with blocks on their bellies up to joist height. We have done similar thousands of times. There was just one exception where the SE decided that 2 skins upright were stronger than blocks flat. It must be the same engineer. Having said that if you did what I suggest to the top of slab then continue with 2 skins of 100mm with a 10 mm gap at least your ties will line up. Build 2 courses to one skin then2 to the other before laying your ties level across the gap. Filling that gap will be a PITA though and difficult to achieve.

And it’s fine to backfill a wall the day after it’s been built and track it in. The brickies must have built the wall curved anyway. We can cavity fill afterwards 🙄🙄it’s only happened about 20 times since I have been laying bricks.

Ahh thanks. Different to Cat 6 then ?

I found this in my soon to be demolished ( hopefully) house. What is it used for ?

I get an email every week from someone who does this. I have deleted them all but next time one pops up I’ll share the details.

I tried an omelette in my ninja yesterday. Absolute disaster as was the mushroom risotto last week. I have to say though it was worth buying just for the oven chips. Heaven.

The definitely are not.

we just sent 11000 bricks to be cut in half for a house built in english bond Cost = £0.59 per cut.

Hi all, As I get nearer to starting my problematic project I have been looking at drainage prices online. There seem to be some very cheap fittings and pipe out there that knock spots off my merchants prices. The question is are the products OK to use ? A drainage contractor that I used to divert a drain at a horrendous cost said that he wouldn't touch them but I suspect that he had ulterior motives for saying this. Examples of my merchant prices against drainage pipe.co.uk are bends around £6.80 against £3.26 from the online supplier 3m pipe SS £15.41 against £10.87 Double socket couplings £4 vs £2.09 All approved to BS EN 1401-1 Is there anything that I should be aware of ?

It sounds to me that the contractor has done what many contractors do and overseen the extra time and cost involved in providing a feature such as flemish bond. I don't think it is anything to do with the bricks but its easier for them to use that as an excuse over ' Oh we didn't realise the extra work involved but have just googled flemish bond and oh shit that's going to cost us'

Yep my rain water wouldn't run uphill and it was just a feature and also a means of topping up the water feature when it was required.

I built one in as a feature for when I was topping up my water feature. It was fed by the mains and I had a stainless steel chain running down the centre. It looked great but I had the advantage of being in control of the water flow. It was very sensitive. 😀

The floor should go across the (insulated) cavity up to the outer skin of brickwork. I suppose there’s a chance that the FFL is a course of blocks above the engineerings and the outer skin of blockwork is missing but I doubt it.

And I wouldn’t recommend going through your project manager. You should sue him for a refund of his fees if he has allowed that to get into that state. I’m sorry I’ll add to the list ….patio door threshold is completely wrong.

Along with the cavity closers and the bonding and pointing of the blockwork and mixing concrete and thermalite blocks in the same wall. DPM not lapped with DPC. I could go on..

why ?

I’m very impressed with mine. I’ve not had any ‘visits’ since I put them up. They are nearly always 100% charged. I plan to use them to do a Timelapse video when / if we ever get started. After a year of dealing with invisible bats we now have very visible nesting birds. Roll on July 🤞🤞🤞