Russell griffiths

Ere mr @Onoff do you reckon you can knock one of these up.

Well spotted. ??

I would be careful of it being too rich. We built raised beds at our last place and filled them with all manner of goodies, we grew some really strange veg, round carrots.....??? on talking to the local old boy allotment expert, it turns out it was all too rich so everything was trying to stay near the surface i did a job for a lady after this and sourced 10 ton of just standard screened soil, she has had a fabulous garden ever since. I would avoid any screened soil from a skip company it normally has to much glass in it. Try a local quarry, ours has some lovely as dug screened soil.

I’m contemplating the same thing at the moment, the only thing about it people don’t like I have been told is it can be a bit awkward to bend neatly. Anybody got an opinion.

If you have a hole and feel a bit open, go and buy a sheet of glass bigger than the hole and silicone it on while you wait for another. I ruined a brand new window with brick acid, i was washing the new concrete floor to provide a good key and splashed it up the glass, never noticed for a couple of weeks.

Very impressed, top shelf stuff right there. Even a can of wife beater, to aid thinking. ?? in my mind I can do stuff like this but I’m really just an amateur wood butcher.

I use lumps of banana, bit strange dropping them in the loo and running outside to see what pipe the shoot out of.

Any brits out there, the Scottish contingent beat you.

I was also thinking it maybe for detecting the duct any others before I fill it back in.

We are just finishing off some details i was under the impression that the garage floor had to be 100 mm lower than the house floor due to any spills from vehicles. My architect seams to think this has been relaxed. Anybody done a recent building control submision about this.

Oh god I have a funny one about sacking a painter, it probably won’t sound as funny in print, but I still chuckle as I think about it. So the painter had well and truly annoyed me, so he was going to be leaving from a top floor window if he ever showed up, i spent an hour going around the house and collected all his tools and stacked them in the drive for if he ever showed up, an hour later he appeared so I made a sarcastic remark about being 2 hours late, he made the mistake of saying something stupid back, so I picked up his tools, buckets rollers steps and proceeded to throw them at him across the road, tools flying everywhere the road littered with rollers and brushes, I launched a couple of milk crates at him but he was managing to bob and weave as the barrage of things rained down. As I was in full flow a van pulled up with the carpet layers on board, one of them lent out the window and said to my mate who was leaning on a shovel watching “should we come back later “. Cool as a cucumber I turned round and said, hang on lads I will be finished in a minute. Well You had to be there to appreciate it. One of my most outstanding moments in life.

And I’ve got a twitchy bum because I want to lift ours 100mm.

So starting to run new services to our plot and I have had to uncover the duct that the BT cable runs in. See pic. Running down the side of the duct is a thin wire just like bell wire, any thoughts on what it is I have my ideas, but what’s yours. Thanks. Russ.

Could you carry out more work inside your property, so you can come out in a better location you have probably thought of this already, I just thought it worth a mention.

Could you say that you can’t guarantee the quality of the insulation install with so many cuts, lots of chances to have gaps and poorly fitted insulation, any gaps will effect the insulation value so really even if kingsman is better, eps beads will be better than gappy kingspan as an ex bricky I would have thought the time saved cutting all the kingspan would pay for the eps...?.?

What springs to mind immediately is this, if they have built the new wall on top of an old existing wall, how have they qualified the quality of the foundations under the old wall. Having built many of these low garden walls on sites many years ago, I would be Not like to say how good they will be without further examination. I have seen huge footings ripped in with a huge excavator and filled with concrete, well over the top, and I’ve also seen footings completely missed as they where in the wrong place, so it was just built of the dirt, i would want some sort of guarantee before the buck passed to me.

Can you not have a fence for construction purposes, set at 1500mm and after construction move it in to where the vendor wants it. It is possible to build to build anything you want in the tiniest of space, (think building in London) but why would you for ease you want at least 1500, is he willing to be flexible, are you being to acomadating because you have found a plot you want.

If it is a tiny plot, does it have to be a bungalow, how about 1:5 storey bungalows take up a lot of room.

If this is a permanent fence how are you proposing to maintain that side, In future, if it’s two story you will need more space for the angle of ladders. I would want at least 1200mm minimum is it not possible to move the house further from the boundary.

Me please @RichS i will pm you my phone number so we can sort the details.

I thought someone made a special blade for that, I think it has like a wavey edge and no teeth so not as much dust.

Basically as you said blind it with sharp sand to make it rough and gritty. It will have better adhesion than some of the nasty pvc damp courses.

After people’s opinions, the father in law is a retired electrician and chucked a curve ball into the electrical fog, how do you work out how many lights you can have on one circuit. So the main thinking is add up all the lights , calculate the power consumption, bingo what if you add it all up using a low consumption LED bulb in say a GU10 fitting and everything is good, you then sell the house and as the LED wear out the new owner puts in standard high consumption halogen, thus overloading the circuit does anybody know the the correct way to calculate this. Cheers russ.

The reason for the concrete topping is I like a solid feel to things, whole house will be tiled so not really interested in timber, ive just spent a couple of hours with a laser level and tape and I think by decreasing the gap under the floor to 150mm, using a 150mm beams and going for a better insulation so I can decrease the thickness, I think I can keep from having to dig down anymore so this weeks panic over thanks for all the input. ?

Pull all the nails out (sorry). Forget ladders though, get a couple of hop ups and a scaffold board so you are at a comfortable height to walk from one end of a joist to the other so you get a good rhythm going. I used a leaf blower on suction mode to suck up piles of loose loft insulation, just walk out to the skip open the zip and blow it into the skip.