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Looking good. Can I ask how much to desludge the old septic tank and maybe the volume removed?

That picture with the ladder against the wall... Is it rendered up so far then some sort of textured paint above? What's the plan for the exposed brick areas, just repaint?

Totally the wrong trowel I'm afraid! This sort, the type you use for plaster is what you what. The action of using it to apply also pushes the render into the bricks and helps it stay there. A cheap 11" long one would do you. Fwiw your attempt looks the right colour and that it's staying there at least. You can use a small offcut of timber just big enough that you can hold with outstretched fingers...say square beer mat size to gently rub over the surface of the patch of render once it's gone off. If the wood takes the render off then its not yet dry enough to "buff". I've even used a bit of tile batten on occasion. Another trick as above is to unscrew the head off a cheap plastic broom and sort of brush it all in when slightly gone off.

Lime I believe is also referred to as "hydraulic lime"? Something to do with the particle sizes being really small and it gets "sucked" into the face of the bricks by hydraulic action. Given the age of your place is it possible the rest of the face is lime rendered and that's why the builder said to you about using lime? Why not jfdi and have a go? Worst it'll do is fall out and you'll have gained some experience. I've generally done this for patching: 1 trowel full of cement 1 trowel of sharp sand 3 trowels of building sand Or if no sharp then 4 of building sand. Mix 5:1 pva or sbr. Clean the test patch area with a stiff brush. Prime with the mix. Let it go tacky. Dry mix the sand and cement. Add the same 5:1 water/pva (or sbr) mix to wet it a little at a time. (I sometimes mix in a bucket with a stick if small quantities). You want it creamy but not to the point it slides off a clean, pointy trowel too easy if you turn the trowel from flat, to 45deg, to vertical. Starting to slide at 45deg then falling off at 90deg. You want it like say a bit thicker than cake mix where as you mix it up and it leaves little troughs and waves, the waves don't "slump" but stay where they are. Apply with a hawk and trowel - pointy trowel not the thing to use. Slightly over fill the area. When gone off but not dry use a straight piece of timber longer than the patch is wide. Don't scrape but hold either end starting from the bottom and jiggle left and right as you work your way up to cut off the excess.

Johnny Cash moment?

Zoot needs it spelling out!

@nod says SBR or Unibond (pva)

Just buy any SBR and have a read of these instructions: https://www.sovchem.co.uk/media/media/PDF/Tech_Datasheets/SBR_Bonding_Agent_TDS_29_V2.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwij0qyw-qnhAhUWUBUIHcuIAw4QFjABegQIDhAE&usg=AOvVaw0BYWwdyUnH-WtrJj2kMEQF

I remember running from the bathroom to the lounge where Mum would be warming a towel in front of a 3 bar electric fire. Same getting up in the morning, getting ready for school where she'd be warming my school clothes. And that was with coal fired central heating. To be fair the boiler would have gone out overnight. No insulation in the house, single glazed wooden windows. In heavy snow we'd have to dig our way to the coal bunkers then break up the first bit of coal that'd be all frozen and stuck together. Baked spuds in the ash pan was about the only good bit!

With my first house, not knowing otherwise I added PVA to EVERYTHING, render for walls, mortar for bricklaying, concrete, EVEN plaster. Put it this way none of it's come off! I would religiously add 5 of water to 1 of PVA and used that to mix whatever in place of plain water. I'd size walls with the 5:1 mix also. Not all PVAs are created equal! I used to use Wickes waterproof one. Now it's about £25 for 5L. Sometimes I'd use Unibond's offering.

Edited the link - as Dave already posted. "Smellcon" blocks? Thermashite?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/energy-efficient-bricks-made-from-human-waste-to-help-build-london-homes-a4104056.html

Can't beat a Multi 9 "si" for problem free protection especially with vsds.

Any use: http://www.stovefittersmanual.co.uk/articles/hearth-regulations/

Those concealed hinges look incredible. Never knew they existed.

Fair enough

Not yet. It's all smoke and mirrors at the moment...well no mirror yet!

Words fail me...

Friends with a concrete prefab were considering it but decided against it due to cost. Not that expensive, more a case of not having a pot to piss in! As I understand it that system was to be loft mounted and just sucked in fresh air and forced it out of the gaps in the fabric. There was talk of drilling through the solid concrete ceilings. (Of course ewi and mvhr would be the way to go).

One way of looking at in this instance is the company using the photo are proud of a good job well done and just didn't think.

God no! Think about it, she had the hump over whatever imagined slight that caused her to slam the door in the first place. Now she's broken a nail too that'll be your fault as well!

"SWMBO nearly ripped the bloody door handle off when she yanked it shut after me!" Becomes "SWMBO broke a nail in the piddly flush plate trying to yank the door shut after me"!" Doesn't really convey the heat of the moment does it?

Yes it came with the cup. I'm diving into Lidl S,oaks later did you want me to look? Had them yesterday as per pics in the other thread.

Do they pay?