Recent content by johnlewis

laying indian sandstone at the moment , and thinking what to make the steps from thinking about laying two tiered courses of 4" concrete blocks laid on their side infilled with concrete and then clad with the same sandstone i have already have cut into brick size pieces and jointed up...

bag of hardwall and then easi fill over it then sand

sounds a lot for a terrace house in cardiff if its just a skim coat expect around 200-300 a room depending on size i paid £800 for eight ceilings biggest room was 24ft x 14ft

if`s rented buy a bag of hardwall fill the holes 2-3mm less than the surface level and put some easi-fill over that then sand it off , wack some lining paper up , and never tell the landlord :lol:

knock off all the remaining loose plaster , i like to use a saw and cut a line in the plaster so not to disturb good plaster. a bag of thistle hardwall will be good enough to fill that if you are tiling over or even a cheap bag of cement based tile adhesive , some times wickes have open...

are you tiling it afterwards ? if you are don`t bother to plaster just level it off with tile adhesive then tile over it. plaster wise multifinish will do the job , as it does not look that thick and looks like cement render under the plaster

cheers i found storm drain sell the same type drains as aco and the quad connectors are only £6 :P

might be a silly question but can you go around corners without having to buy these ? they cost twice as much as 1m of aco http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Roofing+Drainage/Drainage/Aco+Corner+Unit+Plastic+Grating/d250/sd3170/p99860 [/img]

well the £50 a meter i got quoted turned out to be a carrot price 8k labour with me supplying the stone is the cheapest quote i received started digging it out myself , will just do it over a number of months i think it will take 1 person 3-4 weeks to do alone. and cost around 4k...

i pay £15 a ton delivery with grab

£100 a meter and me supplying the stone :shock: had quotes of £50 a meter and thought that was expensive

looks level enough for turf as long has there are no hollow bits what are doing with the steps

yep took me over a week to prepare the ground by hand ground was all clay so no soil at all :shock: it does not go that far once you start raking it out

looking at getting a contractor in at doing this now , i can buy the stone for £2000 , the type 1 ,sharp sand , cement , acco drains is best part of 2k

just laid 200sqm of rowlawn turf , took me two days 22 tonne of topsoil rake out the soil evenly i used an old wooden pallet with some rope tied to it and dragged it round the garden to level it off. remove any stone`s on the surface pull out the weeds by hand , mix lawn...