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You can Jet wash the whole area Which will clear the joints out and wait for a sunny dry day Then sweep the kiln dried sand in

Welcome Rick and block is our preferred option for our first and next builds Quite a bit cheaper than timber frame Your slab and foundations will be dictated by ground conditions Most Structural Engineers push for block and beam We did on our first due to trees and have been pushed towards BB on our next

No your not wrong A lintel and a simply gap So that the air circulates

You don’t need Hardy B board and Ditra One or the other Ditra Matt is absolutely fine directly onto chipboard or ply Pretty much most surfaces

Most of the commercial work has matting in the spec We managed fine for years before matting was available Ive tiled lots of flow screed and SC screed without matting Using matting with flow scree could be considered belt and braces Or overkill

Just about to use a couple of boxes Great for acoustics and fire protection

Brilliant Ian ?

They can But the Matt will have to come up at the same time He will know that these things to happen Hence the seemingly high floor tiling rates

I would just put a self leveling on that Then tile it the following day while it’s still green Then leave it a week to dry out before grouting

It’s happening everywhere The Brickie that came on here a couple of weeks back and hacked all the corners off his work Is back working for the same bricklaying contractor He caused 5k in damage For those old enough to remember Yozzer (Others google) It was remarkably similar to a scene from boys from the black stuff He turned up at 3 on a Friday after it had rained all day Site manager said “Bit late to be starting “ Hammer and bolster in hand He just replied I’m sorry La My work I haven’t been paid Then proceeded to knock all the face brick corners off on a four block Mumbling sorry as he went The only glimmers of hope was when the skip guy appeared and asked him to move his van Which he did Then carried on knocking the rest of the corners off Site manger called The police and was told to stop wasting there time Afterwards he went in the site office and said Yoozs are all good lads and treated me right I’m sorry Site manager said did you see the size of his arms I replied that I was more focused on the two pound lump hammer he was still holding

It’s a tricky Some trades are very good value at 25 They should be putting a shift in for you

Yes they can Pricier than some But does what it says on the tin

Lithofin products are all really good The MN is performs better in Wet areas

How much per man hour are they charging you ? Are they getting through the amount of work that you expected ?

Plus one 10% is standard You will probably have to renegotiate the hourly rate Or look for new builders Most that are on fixed price contracts are going to have to do a similar thing somewhere along the line There’s still more work than builders

Good advise Throw it to your SE

I re dashed a friends house and garage as a favor over lockdown Dry dash Colour is Canterbury spar

Then close the cavity with block and damp ours Cavity closers should be on the inside of the building

You can’t render onto cavity closers You will have to dab a board over onto the exposed block and fix a 25 x12 mil SS trim to the frame to catch the other edge of the reveal board

As I’ve said previously Steel will drop in price dramatically But if you need it now Your stuck with the inflated prices

Around £53m2 silicone render supply fit Blockwork laboure only 22-25m2

We came in at £815 m2 at a very high spec Two and half years ago I’m guessing our next one Which is due to start soon will be higher Due to price rices But having services onsite will help your budget enormously

I just get the feeling of De ja vu with all this Didn't the poets that be push is all towards diesel cars with promises of cheaper prices Well at least cheaper till we had all swapped from petrol to diesel powered cars On our previous build the installation of solar panels had a Sap productive saving of 2-300 pounds per year While it may of helped to save the planet From a financial point it was and is for our next ones A no brainier Switching between the larger suppliers seems one of the better options at the moment