gaz_moose

the allan blocks were the first ones i came across, ive just been stacked out with work and had no time to put into researching this. i do appreciate you guys filling me in on block systems as its something ive never seen before.

i didn't really want the added charms of the creosote version. 30 pretend oak sleepers on a pallet is a grand. i will take a better look at interlocking wall blocks as its not something ive seen before. thanks for the heads up. i found some that are £14 each. wickes do them Marshalls Croft Weathered Textured Walling Stone - 300 x 170 x 100mm - Pack of 90 | Wickes.co.uk although they remind me of the aztec zone on the crystal maze. shame they only do buff colour.

fair comment 😆 what kind of money do they want for that dry system? im just a mere mortal with regular amounts of wages to spend.

should just pull out. might need a bit of a wiggle. use some washing up liquid as lube when putting it all back together.

google says they are about 50kg, does that sound about right? I just seem to be premier league at buying stuff that weighs a friggin tonne then having to eat 3 shredded wheat for breakfast 😁

try putting a wanted add on your local facebook pages. you could look on brickhunter.

I currently have a sloping lawn and want to build a retaining wall that is an 'L' shape roughly 3m x 9m to level it out and then put a gravel patio in its place.. I was thinking of using new railway sleepers, Oak ones seem to be the better choice, looking around and i can get them in 1.2m or 2.4m lengths, 100mm x 200mm. how much do these things weigh? as access is a bit limited so they will have to be man handled into place. I was thinking of laying them on a type 1 base and back filling behind them with round gravel to help drainage so they don't rot out. The ground also slopes the other way so i will need the wall to be 600mm high on one side and 400mm on the other so was planning to lay the sleepers on their side? is that a done thing? What is my best way to join them together? So far ive seen stakes that hammer in the ground behind them and then screw to the back. spreader plates along the back, steel channel posts, rebar and drilling holes in the sleepers. The rebar out the ground sounds the better option, as it will still hold when everything gets a bit rotted. the whole garden is getting landscaped, so im open to any other suggestions, the plan is grey porcelain patio, white gravel where the lawn was, sleeper step up to more gravel that will be a darker colour, probably slate chippings or whatever works out cheap. sorry for my rambling, has anyone got some good insight into what's best, cost effective, less labour intensive to build a small retainer wall.

id ask a local estate agent which would give the best return.

they just look like old council slabs to me.

someone on here built one of these and insulated it to be a home office. if you search the threads you will find it.

id get one of the silent ones that use fridge compressors, the direct drive and belt ones are always too noisy, the cfm will be terrible but no hobby size compressor will run things like a sander for any decent amount of time anyway.

how have you done the ceiling around the roller shutter top box? assuming you have a ceiling.....

I've had 3 grab lorries this year already and couldn't face the carnage. I didn't think to phone them and ask how much they would pay me for it all 😁. If it does a wheelie, or the bottom falls out i will post pictures.

use normal radiators instead of fancy designer vertical ones. I also wish id gone down the 2 slimline dishwasher route.

Brilliant, when i phoned them to enquire they asked what was going in it, So i said 'just bricks' and she replied £200 cash so i jumped on it and didn't think to ask about weight etc.. as the other place round here said £235 +VAT 😆