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dcochran - 11:35 AM on Sep. 7, 2009  reply | message
Hi Thermo, Thanks for the quick response, I'm retaining, part top soil, part light clay, part heavy clay (1/2 the wall at some points). My only concern about not putting a membrane or dpm behind the wall was that the water would seep through the wall and discolour the sleepers making ugly stains. I also have read some articles about building sleeper walls and they all suggest using some kind of dpm so not quite sure which way to go here ?

Thanks Again.
Darren
dcochran - 3:28 PM on Sep. 3, 2009  reply | message
Hi, Not sure if you can help but I'm in the process of building a retaining wall out of new softwood treated railway sleepers. The wall is 1.2m high and about 6m long, I've been using your pics and comments as reference actually. I'm using the sleepers as post vertically 1.2m between each and then finally I'll be timberlocking the sleepers horizontally between these posts. My issue is drainage behind the wall, I can easily source the peforated drainage pipe which will redirect any water behind the wall, but I can't find a supplier who sells less that 50 m2 of wall drain material (waterproof membrane) what do you use to line your retaining walls ? and where do you get it from ?

Many Thanks in advance
Darren
kjacko - 8:00 AM on Jun. 22, 2009  reply | message
Hi mate, regarding the Photoshop v7 thread. I have a copy of the full CS2 suite. We're now on CS4, but it so huge (12GB). If you want CS2, let me know, i'll burn a dvd for you.
tkm - 11:32 AM on Dec. 19, 2008  reply | message
Hi Thermo,

hope you don't mind me contacting you. I read a post that you left about Rated Tradesmen and other such websites and I couldn't agree more. I'm not a tradesmen but I know a few tradesmen who express the same opinion. So I've got together with a friend and we've decided to see if we can't build a better Web service.

We carried out research and found various websites in operation. However, the general feeling amongst tradesmen in forums is that these websites can benefits but more often than not they tend to give tradesmen a poor service, though this is not always the case.

Our mission is to create something of real benefit for both customers and tradesmen. We don’t want to be like the rest. We want to be better and we want to be inclusive. So we’ve designed a survey so that you can have your say and input into the building of this service.

Below is a link to access our survey. We would really appreciate it if you could give us your feedback. The survey will only take a few minutes and we created it using a company called SurveyMonkey.com.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7lvl4DGp3cZNhJilDIm1OQ_3d_3d

If you have any questions feel free to leave me a post and feel free to forward on the link.

Kind regards,
tkm
singingshirl - 3:15 PM on Mar. 13, 2008  reply | message
Hi there you look like the sensible handy chappie I need DIY advice from! Hope you can help. I recently bought some floating shelves from a shop on ebay. They are very heavy and look extremely good quality however my husband (who is not the greatest DIYer) has said that the fixing rods are not long enough to support the shelves with any weight on them. Each shelf is 1000mm wide.290mm in depth. the holes in the shelf are situated 100mm in at each end. The fixing rods are 100mm in length. When we attached the shelf to the brick wall it tipped forward as soon as we put a couple of books on it. Do you think it's the fixing rods being to short or the wall plugs and screws not being big enough. The plugs and screws were not supplied so we used our own. Any advice you have would be gratefully accepted.
 
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