Recent content by Dereekoo

Nay, its just another run of the mill event

Your money, your life, do whatever gives you satisfaction, a fancy weekend is gone and forgot about after a week

I should imagine stopping the free flow of water along the guttering to its lawful(?) discharge point will result in legal action being taken against you

Younger generation, something wants making/repairing/doing get a man in to sort it :-)

Could be a sticking micro switch, gently tap the unit with a piece of wood a few times and see if that actuates the motor

Further to the above if you are au fait with spreadsheets I have put one together based on the examples around page 16 to determine wall thicknesses required based on various parameters depending which ones are chosen. Unfortunately I can only put up a print of the spreadsheet so the sheet...

Had a similar problem with mine due to foundations being a couple of rows laid at surface level, fortunately mortar was softer than bricks so no cracking as such. A bit of TLC to sort.

A little light reading , the examples around page 16 will give you a view on wall thicknesses although your proposals are slightly off the beaten track and foundation design are in a different league https://www.brick.org.uk/uploads/downloads/s-design-of-brickwork-retaining-walls.pdf

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As well as the thickness, height,density of the wall there is also soil properties of soil be retained and bearing capacity and size of foundation to be considered which I should imagine rule of thumb gives scant regard as does your builder by the sounds of it. "We have always done it like this...

Don't know what the design parameters were at the time of build but todays timbers are designed for snow loading of 75kg/m2 , changing from tiles to concrete can increase roof loading by 10 to 35kg so possibly roof is structurally OK at the moment but just hope global warming keeps the snow at...

Dittto, interesting to note that you have different boiler output options for CH and HW