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Yes, this is what Im saying.... my question is what is the ratio of sand to lime to cement for this purpose? Does anyone know? Thanks

Ive got a steel lintel so that's not an issue :) Here's a pic of the builder's opening as it stands, and the cast iron fire place that's being installed (a gas unit sits inside the basket to give a final finish like this...

By the way the gas engineers will be installing the fire, and they told us to do this work first. I've done basic bricklaying, pointing, rendering and plastering before... but just not sure on what mortar mix to use as its a fireplace with heat. Cheers x

Hello, Im making our builders opening smaller in order to install a gas fireplace, by installing a steel lintel (as concrete will crack) and bricking up the hole above. However Im confused about what mortar to use! The DIY store sold me a bag of "Natural Mortar" which apparently contains lime...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me? There's so much conflicting advice online that I'm proper confused! We have laid a pre-grooved chipboard floor and want to Tile it but don't know what to put inbetween. It's a suspended timber floor. The grooved chipboard is secured directly onto the...

A quick update for those that posted... we had a structural engineer round today who gave us some verbal advice for free. The trimmer (red line) is taking the weight of the light stud wall above it between bathroom and stairs but also some of the weight from the bathroom as those joists ware...

Thanks guys and sorry, reading it back it is a bit messy! Heres a sketch drawn on top of the upstairs layout. Pink wall is the only brick one upstairs. The yellow and blue walls are the downstairs ones. The yellow (brick) is the one we have removed. The blue is the only stud wall downstairs...

We had 2x builders say the wall wasn't load bearing, so we removed it ourselves today. However when quoting there was a lot of head scratching as there is a brick wall upstairs, but not directly above it -about 2ft away running parallel, with a gap underneath so it appears to be resting on the...

Wall removal

Yeah I was wondering if that was the case! ;) A bit similar to the DFA button. But thought Id check just in case.