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Pictures of my shed extension.

Dragging this thread up as I've eventually managed to get round to starting it. Have sourced the bricks, 'Scotch Common' so will be getting those delivered this/next week hopefully. Dug the foundations, or at least as far as I could which is about 14-16" below average ground level. Beyond...

You're a bir far away, 350 miles or so. If I wanted to pay someone to do this, how much would I be looking to pay? (including materials). I'll almost definitely be doing it myself, but I'm just curious.

Hi Skimmers, Sorry I've been a complete numpty and put 8" instead of 4", not quite sure how I've managed that, so yes, it will be normal 4" blocks, not 8. Thanks for the advice, makes sense now. Dave.

Bump. Any further advice on this before I literally dig myself into a hole? Dave.

Smart chargers often see a fully discharged battery as faulty. 5.6v is usually absolutely terminal for a lead acid battery, I'm surprised your charger brought it back from the dead. If a battery is failing then on connecting the charger it may be able to drive it to 15v because of the...

wipe a cloth over the back of the car, any black sooty oilyness? My 1.25 fiesta was using 5L of oil A WEEK, but there was no leak and no blue smoke. It smelled oily but that was all. Turned out to be the exhaust side valve stem seals, they'd totally given up. This meant the oil wasn't...

I didn't hit clay for quite some time last time I was digging, would it be better to put some hardcore down first if I can't get to anything REALLY solid? I was thinking of leaving 1 brick length of the existing wall as a pier. won't affect my working space and saves putting one in. That pier...

Hi Everyone, I'm looking for some advice on extending my brick shed at the rear of my house. Currently it is 2 x 3 Meters approximately, I am looking to extend it about the same again as it's not big enough for the work I do on motorcycles and cars. Truth be told it's not even big enough to...