Margaret dailey

thankyou for your advise

can anyone please advise me if this the correct way or whether this will cause problems later. i am making a pithed roof and have got to the part where i need to lay the breathable membrane, only thing is i have already fixed the roof battens and now want to lay the membrane over the top of battens and then fixed tiles on top. they are standard vangaurd 83 interlocking roof tiles that will sit ontop of the membrane once its laid along battens. i know now the membrane should go under the battens but ive fixed battens now. so can i carry on the fix tiles now or does all battens need to be ripped up. thanks Margaret Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/breathable-membrane-over-or-under-roof-battens.571964/#ixzz6w5f2rq2B

I think im just going to give up. I thought with underpinning and concrete and not going as far back now will be ok but clearly wont be.

Hi all. Pro dave, he is not digging 2m on the wall side, he has dug 1m on wall side and then will dig 2m down 5ft away from house.

Yes i cant afford a se otherwise i would have. The builder has ruled out digging as far back as i wanted it which was 5ft from window. He has said minimum has to be at least 8ft maybe 10ft from window and then a 3 block concrete retaining wall with 4 pillars, and concrete between retaining wall and the remaining soil. 4 rsjs At least 6 foot. Square hole dug. Starting from house wall corner which is 1m at house side and goes out and deepens to 2m. Same both front corner sides. One already almost dug out. Two similar holes in centre of house outside bay window. These holes will have concrete poured in and then have each rsj inserted into them and pushed into house as far as possible. And then concrete ontop.

Hi, they have already dug one metre down, as the picture shows. They just need to dig 2 metres down in the same hole adjacent. And there is no concrete base. Just two bricks coming out.

The builders duck down today to check what type of Foundation is underneath the house and as you can see it goes down and comes out about 2 bricks so they have decided to dig down 1m at the wall and 5ft out and then 2m down, fill with concrete then insert 6-ft 9inchx9inch RSJ and then fill ontop with concrete again. They will do this each corner of the house at the front and at two points in the Middle by the window

Thankyou so much

Ok thankyou all Will need to really reconsider this.

No there is no basement. I can see why you say i need a se. Im so confused reading this. I was just hoping to make a parking space for my mobility car And its just got confusing and complicated. Hopefully my builder friend will be able to build this without issue He did mention about puttinf in at least 6 drainage pipes about 1metre off the floor to deal with the water trapped behind the wall.

Ill have to do some research and hope to be able to find these blocks cheap enough not to blow my budget Likeni mentioned before, its 16ft wide so will i still need 25 of these blocks

As for dirt the builder has been taking soil so thats not an issue

These concrete lego blocks, where can i get these and how many will i need. The wall will be approx 16ft across. Was hoping to tarmac or slab..

And rough how much for those 25 blocks. From what i have read, most of the options i cant follow due to budget, but I feel this option is best for me and wont blow my budget. Im just building wall at the moment and will worry about rendering and etc later

Ok will do that. So i buy a few of these and plant them at foundation and then use normal concrete blocks to build up?