Recent content by James45632

Thanks, I've ordered the primer and bitumum, hopefully it'll get here before the rain. Out of interest, what's the concrete-block looking stuff supporting the mastic asphalt? I google'd mastic asphalt but didn't get anything telling me about the base its layed on.

I've got a very old garage with a little bit of leaking and I'm thinking of using bitumen paint with glass fibre trim to fix the leak but not sure if it will stick to this type of roof. I've never seen a roof like this, looks like something that was used years ago. Any idea what it is and if...

He mentioned in a interview that he's a qualified bricky. You'd have to search on youtube for it, I don't have the link to the specific video. Exactly.

"Experienced builders will hate you for using this!" It's like a few plasteres hating the speedskim. Anything that could make the job easier, especially for a DIYer, automatically gets hated. Given that the bricky was made by a qualified bricky, do a google search and makeup your own mind.

Appreciate the update. That guy is a clown. You'd have done a better job yourself. If worse comes to worse, get yourself the 'Bricky' tool and crack on with it until you're comfortable laying to a consistent 10mm mortar bed yourself.

How did this turn out? Can you post an update?

This is the fastest way to get back into it: Buy the City&Builds or NVQ 2 and 3 bricklaying textbooks (amazon sells them). They will get you updated on the current regs and teach you how to build walls/bonds you might have forgotten. Plenty of videos on youtube showing you how to do it if you...

This is counter-intuitive but your company name is about how your customers would respond to it, not how you would. The amount of electricians with 'spark' or 'sparky' in their names is silly and shows they don't understand this. Your potential customers don't know what a 'spark' is, that's...

It's as simple as this.

Yeah, I understand why they'd want to penny pinch given that for the same area, bricks are 6 times more costly than blocks. That adds up fast when it comes to estates. But even the NHBC says not to mix them but I guess in practise, like Woody said, it doesn't make much of a difference:

Cut away a portion of the joist that's in the way, then double the joists on the left and right. Add horizontal 'trimmers' between the doubled joists. There's a picture of it here: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/doubling-up-rafters-for-velux.397972/ The idea is the same as if you were...

Can clay bricks be mixed with (either aerated or dense) concrete blocks in a single wall? I thought they can't be mixed because of their different u-values and how they shrink/expand at different rates which would produce cracking. Yet I see a lot of mixed brick and block wall construction...

After we had a leak from out flat roof I took down the plasterboard only to find that the joists are resting on a ledgerboard/wall plate instead of either resting inside the bricks or on the ledgerboard with joist hangers. I don't know why the previous builders did this when they could have...