Recent content by jimmy77

I just had my outlet valve seal/washer fail through hardening, allowing water to pass through following some flushes, where it wouldn't seat correctly. Tried insanely priced ebay replacement seal/washers (£8), but the rubber material was too hard and I had similar problems to the hardened...

Hi Woody, The existing wall is a little over 1 metre high, but it also has fence panels sitting on top of it and then trellis above those. See this sketch... http://i.imgur.com/obb8x.png I'm keen on exploring the retaining wall idea now. Given the dimensions of things in that sketch...

Hi - thanks for the replies - its sounding a bit depressing though. I don't need the shed base to be 1m lower than the foundation of the wall - it's more like 150mm below the foundation. This makes it clearer... http://imgur.com/JWKaI Space is tight in the garden. I'd like to build the...

Hi, I share a 1.2m high Victorian double brick width garden wall with my next door neighbour. It is built on a foundation of flat rocks that are no wider than the wall itself and the soil beneath that is clay. I would like to lower the levels along the wall in my garden so that I can build a...