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Some videos here for Simpson Strongtie brand hangers that might assist: https://www.strongtie.co.uk/resources/videos

Filling these pillars... I've 1 jumbo bag each of: - 10mm pea shingle - All in ballast - Sharp sand That I'm keen to use up. I've also approx 10 bags of plastic bagged Rugby cement. Out of date by a good while. Basically I ordered a load a while back and 3 bags were split (when I did the bathroom floor I think). By way of compensation they sent me 1/2 a pallet's worth that I couldn't use. I'd like to use it up but if not it'll find a home in a mate's over site for his extension. I was even considering pouring in a couple or 3 of those expanding foam post hole fillers you see on YouTube. One worry there is I might get lots of condensation on the face of the pillar. Is the old cement a goer?

Not to rub it in but care to share the original design? Stunning as it is it's pretty striking, visually. Amazed that where it is they didn't insist on something more muted. Weird as the outbuildings had to be black didn't they?

Next question, the flint infills. Got to decide yet whether to knap them, I likely will. (Got to make some boppers). I seem to recall somebody saying to use lime mortar as ordinary opc will shrink away from them leaving them loose. B&Q seem nearest for lime: 25kg for £11. (TP want £19 for the same bag!) https://www.diy.com/departments/blue-circle-hydrated-lime-25kg-bag/35712_BQ.prd Any pointers on using it as in back to basics, what do I do with it? Mix with sand if so what sort? Consistency I'm looking for? Thanks in advance!

Ta. Food for thought. I'll look tomorrow at what's what.

Top of brick has to finish level with that wooden former on the front. What do you reckon lose it on the joints?

If I start drinking gin will my house look like that?

Does it line up with the dormer roof or is it the camera angle? If it does, is it by luck or design?

Reckon I need to claw back 12mm in height Due to a combo of initially the welded angle issue then too thick mortar lines and basically not working to those lines. My fault. Each horizontal black line on the post is 75mm apart. Where the bricks finish at the mo it's 63mm to the next black line! So 12mm in total. Thinking to thin 3 courses by 4mm each using the diamond blade in the evolution saw.

Like the way the line in the gable render (expansion joint?) appears to marry up with the roof of the dormer.

Like what Jeremy did in his picture above. Tbh it's what many do and it works. Chairs or stools are other terms used.

Stunning.

No my brother's FiL did, Wally James was his name. I got to clear his shed out a couple of years back (had the shed too tbh ? ). Oddly enough I collected one of my welders earlier from my parents elderly neighbour and was making him laugh telling how I'd tried to arc weld steel to brass. Turns out his BiL worked for Molins too. I'll find out his name. Only places I've ever frequented in Deptford was Garlands and the Rose Of Denmark. Did some work at Rothmans in Aylesbury.

The lad and I did a few more courses. We are not brickies by a long shot! . Made a faux pas! 7th course high is a few mm higher than it should be. There's an angle iron welded to the box section that the set back brick at course 7 should have sat on directly. I unfortunately put muck on it then the brick. Living with it.

I recall at the time people were suggesting dpm or even roofing felt behind the wall. I think it was Firwood Paints Black Bitumen I used....cos it was free!

Best way to stop render coming off the front, imho, having done it 30 years ago and its still good, is paint behind the wall (soil side) with a black bituminous paint.

Well ths jury's still out on the effectiveness of this. I think it works "but could be better". Attempted to "make a seal" but tricky with such a pert tushi! ? I wonder if the main extractor (top right) is dragging the pan (bottom left) smell out and into the room and that's what's noticeable? Next then to build a Papst fan into a small box and introduce to the 32mm pipe. Then try that without the extractor on.

I used Pex-Al-Pex 16mm pipe. It's as tough as old boots. @Nickfromwales quoted I think seeing labourers upending wheelbarrows on it without detriment to it. However... I am Mr Slow and then some. I laid the red tray, then the pipe but it was a long time before I poured the slab. My pipe suffered some abrasions from the rusty A142 mesh. This was simply where I'd been walking on the mesh for so long. Tbh didn't seem to have done too much damage. I added some bits of conduit where it had rubbed. Wouldn't have happened if I'd gotten my arse in gear and done the slab quicker.

Was it this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy7k0

From memory our neighbor's paid £65K two years before for ostensibly thd same house along the same terrace. In 92 we paid £40K putting down £10K deposit. Admittedly it needed work like a new roof, CH, DG etc. Neighbours were in negative equity by then. Two years before we'd been getting to viewings only to be told the places had been sold it was that mad.

Would adding a small Papst fan in that long length of 32mm increase the throughput? I could likely run off of one of the spare deck light outputs used for the pocket lighting.

& 100g of Whole Nut

Prepararation is everything! - 600ml Cobra - Chunk Red Fox Red Leicester - A Silesian sausage - Kimchee - Handful sweet chilli crisps - Packet Wagyu biltong Roll on tomorrow morning's clear out. Edit: + Cherry pie & double cream

I did bloody well with the first house (1992 I think). Put down a 25% deposit. Both working. No kids. Living WAS easy. How times change!

Thanks. I tend to want to leave fairly promptly tbh.