Recent content by Rocky1000

Thanks, yes I do agree the brick work should be better quality evening if its only footings. I have already had harsh discussions about this with the builder so hopefully moving forward they will be more diligent however I'm not sure if its worth totally re-doing at this stage, if the EPS is...

Hi, thanks Stuart, yes I was wondering that as I did see that claymaster is usually Pink but I just assumed it was something called Clayshield, is this not another a similar product???..unfortunately I wasn't on site when they poured the concrete so couldn't question anything at the time, the...

Hi, yes that is what they are planning I believe to match the rest of the building, does this sounds acceptable???

Thanks tomfe, I take your point, however the brick work will also be rendered with bead dividing DPC, not sure how much of different that makes but I will discuss with them!

Thanks, I take your point, they have said that they will be rendering to the bottom but obviously not directly over the DPC, this is the bit I'm slightly unsure about, its a difficult situation as it took along time to find a builder I was happy with based on seeing previous work and one that...

lol...yes the boss speaks English but workers are Romanian. I do kind of trust them as I've seem a couple of their other projects and they were good finishes, I'm guessing there is anything majorly wrong then the building inspector won't be signing it off.

Hi all, thanks for the comments, the inspector made us dig twice the planned depth, so went from 1.2m to 2.4m because of clay soil and there are a couple of fern trees nearby, yes that is meant to be claymaster but I assume its some other variety as its white, I'm not that clued up on it to be...

Hi, I'm not sure to be honest, I will need to ask them, the external finish is meant to be a render. Thanks

Hi Woody, many thanks for your reply, I was also wondering about the width of the gaps but wasn't sure, do you think a building inspector would sign this off???

Hi all, I just wanted to ask some advice please. I've recently had builders start on a single storey rear extension and they have just now started laying the bricks for DPC, however I'm a little bit concerned about the quality of the bricklaying as there appear to be many gaps in the mortar...