Russell griffiths

Better pics needed but I would not render it take the top 3 courses off and either rebuild those, or just re cap it at that lower height. Does it need to be a specific height for it to function correctly, what purpose does it serve. replace the low down blown brick and give it a bit of a re point.

Buy good quality switches with interchangeable modules. unless your place is costing north of a couple of million to build then just have faceplates with screws in them. it’s just another problem you don’t need, and after a month you won’t look at the switch ever again. 12 switches in the photo, click mode by scholmore would they look better without the screws ??

Watching robin clevett will give you unrealistic expectations of your trades people.

Go online and buy in box quantities of 12.

It’s a ball ache job in a trench that narrow, two courses of trench blocks, or I prefer concrete blocks.

still probably too big for what you would need, not sure if it gives the right feel though. about as natural as it gets. my friend has a wildlife pond he dug and used a liner, I will see if he has any pics. he’s the type of bloke who would have researched it for a year first.

just messing. get your spade out, you would need to shift a few tonnes to get a pond like my one. serious photo to follow when I can find one.

Have you not noticed the oil crisis oil for heating is not available at the moment by me, with the depots saying a 3 week wait for deliveries, then they are saying that they won’t give you a price until they have it. it’s nearly 3 times the cost as it was last summer. I think @Onoffis trying to conserve it for hot water. Once that tank is empty it don’t work anymore.

Illbruck fm 330 is actually as cheap as the nasty rubbish from screwfix if you buy a box of 12 cans. do some google searching and buy a box of it, you will have wished you found it years ago.

That’s the problem with those trucks you don’t know what you are getting until it’s in. 3 x 8m trucks is 24m ask what a truck holds. unless you had 4 that is. I don’t like volumetric as I feel it never looks mixed properly.

I’m afraid you need to be firmer on the phone and say what you want. say you have a pump on site and need trucks at 30 min intervals for the first two, then the first one returns for the third load, probably hour and half after he was there the first time. should be all in the ground by 11.30. im afraid you need to be firm and try not to sound like a diy er. you will get it sorted for the floor slab.

My recent one was £250, but it was cheap as it was a second test and they knew everything was ok because the first test was below passive house standard. I would expect £400 for a test and then some exploration.

If you use the new tanalised post’s you will be lucky to get 7 years out of them. the old treatment was far superior. We are replacing fence posts by the thousands at the moment and some I remember putting in myself and I’ve only lived here 12 years. we are replacing everything with creosote posts. i would do some serious research before just buying a standard treated round post. there’s better out there but they come at a premium. how long are you going to live there ?

Doesn’t it need to score below 8 for building regs. I believe to get as bad as an 8 you could have a window open. I cannot see the developer doing anything, and I don’t believe they have to test every house anyway, so he will have a good excuse for it being poor anyway.

pump 3 tubes of this under it, stop 20 mm from the packers and let it dry for 48 hrs then chop the packers off flush with a sharp chisel, then fill the remaining gap and wipe over the ends of the packers. will dry more solid than mortar, won’t crack and fall out.