Recent content by Hope_floats

Gents Thank you very much for the help, the top ground is poor (lots of old bricks and clay) so I'll take the whole footprint down and do it that way. Thanks again, I'm sure I'll no doubt have more questions as this project develops.

Sorry, as you can tell, I'm new to the terminology I have drawings that show I must make the extension internal floor up to finished level using compacted sub base, sand, insulation and a final 75mm screed. I must trench fill concrete foundations to a minimum depth of 1mtr, and goes on to show...

Hi, I'm just starting digging the footings for my 2 story extension and wanted advise on matching old house floor to new. Current regs require the new floor to be total thickness from the footings of 420mm, sub base, insulation etc. The old house floor is only 220mm from footings to finished...