Recent content by lookieluke

Actually, after thinking about it I'm starting to warm up to this idea. I will discuss it with my (new) roofer.

Having 2 inches more flashing on the tiles on one side would be pretty visible, no? I'm not installing profiled tiles.

I would love to run, but alas... The square point is actually at the bottom, at the newly built front wall (why would I ask to build out-of-square wall for the new porch?), but I get your point. How do you lay tiles in this situation? Do you keep all the tiles within a given row perpendicular to...

Hello All, I would be very grateful if you could share your thoughts on the dilemma I am facing. I have a small lean-to roof (porch extension), one plane, no ridge tiles. Rafters length is about 1.8m. Roof pitch is 22.2 degrees. I was planning to install Marley Ashmore interlocking tiles...

Hello, I'm thinking about installing Geberit Duofix toilet frame (height 112cm). I have a vertical clay pipe opening in the floor (10cm diameter) that is about 18cm off from the center of the planned frame position (please don't ask me why, this can't be changed). I was researching intensively...

Forgot to mention that the screed is approximately 4-5cm above the dpc.

Concrete ground floor. No DPM. Cavity wall with bitumen dpc. Screed with ceramic tiles laid on it. House built in 60's. The screed touches the wall above dpc in many places. Please take a look in the album: http://www.diynot.com/network/lookieluke/albums/23283 where I uploaded a few...

I resolved the issue so for the interest and benefit of fellow diy-ers I thought I would post how it all ended up. My favourite electrician came round and found out that all the cables going through the hole are actually dead. More than that they were not attached to anything at one end so he...

The junction box might actually be redundant. The red core is exposed due to damage (not by me), this will need to be fixed. Regarding different classes of the cables and their purpose I don't really know. I can only guess these are for sockets and lighting. I would have to remove plasterboards...

When renovating a guests' toilet I found, after removing ceiling plasterboard, a rather large hole in the inner blockwork behind the joist adjacent to the wall. The hole has a bunch of electrical cables going through it and obviously the cables run into the cavity. The main goal of the whole...

Hi, I have a quick question. I need to replace a few DENSE concrete blocks in the inner leaf of a cavity wall (house built in 60's). Is it ok to replace them with standard aerated ones (3.5N/mm2)? Many thanks in advance. Luke

I think I wasn't precise in my initial post. It's not that there is a gap between the 2 blocks/bricks jointed at the corner, but the blocks themselves are cracked. I am 100% sure this was caused mechanically while working on the wall (drilling/banging through the wall while installing the pipes...

Thanks a lot. I will hire one pair of acrow+strongboy and prop the corner of the wall just above the highest block to be replaced. As you said, better be cautious. What is worrying me as well is making the horizontal bonds between the new and old blocks strong enough to avoid any cracking in...

Hi All, I would like to repair an internal bearing wall around the corner after removing some plumbing mess. The house has cavity walls with the internal wall made of concrete blocks (house in the UK built in 60's). I would like to replace 4 concrete blocks (and 1 brick) as shown on the...