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Hi I am in a bit of a hole and need some expert advice. I am in no way a tiling newbie, I have tiled walls and floors on building projects for a good 10 years but it seems I've missed something. I have tiled on timber floors with flexi adhesive, and flexi grout. Sometimes with fairly cheap...

In many situations the firebreak looks a bit like tri Oso foil insulation, I suppose if you are taking things this far then maybe the glass partitions should be fire glass, definitely toughened anyway. Surely there's a specialist in here who can help. Or maybe they have been suspended?

If that's the case if will be a messy job, I have done similar before and found that u end up with a constant barrage of rubble/mortar. Letting this fall in might result in a big void above. You could stitch drill it and try and insert thread bars horizontally above where you will have your safe...

When fitting gas/elec flush boxes to external walls no lintel is used unless they are alongside each other, they are approx 4-500mm wide. When u say the wall is approx 500mm thick what is its construction, is there a cavity? If its solid brick you will find it hard to get lintels in that deep...

As long as your glass partition frame will allow you to fit the perimeter strip to it this shouldn't be too tricky. I would agree tho, if your not the builder it may be best to leave it to them. And you need to know if your partition might then interfere with services above the ceiling?

Its a porch! Surely it cant harm just to dig out for the hardcore too, wont take much longer. 150mm might be overkill for a porch mind. Just chuck in the slabs and break em up a bit with a sledge?

my mistake, thanks

I think the nationwide high winds is most of the fence panel problem. It seems any kind of shortage is getting blamed on the chinese recently? Probably just excuses for the market leaders to up their prices. jonny what info regarding drains do you need. If its where they are then you need...

We built a river bank up with railway sleepers a few years ago. They were all interlocked, and drilled. We then rammed steel rods through them all and about 3 feet into the river bed. Seems to have held up brilliantly, and looks the monkeys. They were the russian sleepers, and were...

Xantech We have been asked by a customer to improve the sound insulation of there party walls. After searching the web for suitable options we went for some panels call M20 Panel Insualtion. It is supposed to be better than Isowooll etc, and you loose less room space. Do you have any...

In my limited opinion Thermalite are fine to fix to if your boarding them dot and dab style. Fair enough thermalite with nothing covering them might be bad, usually a question of what your fixings are going to be?

Depends wether building regs are gonna want to see it i thinks?

Blood spiders aint they? Poor little things, they just want to survive like the rest of us!

Do you need to PVA breeze blocks before rendering? Im sure someone told me that once?

There aint no pipes etc behind there? And its not leaking from above down?

If you arems are up to it, use a brush and hold ya PVA bucket just underneath it. Youll still get it down ya arms but it reduces how much goes elsewhere. And get plenty of waterproof dust sheets! Just some tips from a learner, and i aint pretending to have been in the game for years! When...

Same here, i occasionally get away with single coats on board too! It sounds bad, but if the boards are up nice and level you can still get a very reasonable finish and it goes off much faster allowing me to be down the pub earlier. I think the mottled description is what i call stinging...

Been trying to render some raised garden bed walls. I have changed nothing from start to finish but i have 2 walls that came out perfect, and two that just keep falling off. I can plaster (internally) and so have a good basis of skills but this is just too weird. When applying my scratch coat...

Are you havin a giraffe?

I have done similar, but i didnt see the need for redndering internally. Just plenty of black jack for me! Best to add a waterproofer to the render mix, and definately use plastering sand. Two coats, scratch then finishing coat. Wet the surface up a load before applying too, and even wet...