Recent content by silly_savage

Thanks for your reply. I think you're right, supporting the frame on piers is going to be the way forward.

Yeah I'll incorporate a fall to the deck, at whatever gradient is recommended (2%?) I was thinking of installing a soakaway under the deck, although probably not immediately and technically it would be against building regs. The lower path will drain down to an ako.

Just realised I can use spacers to fix a ledger to the retaining wall without risk of it getting damp. One issue is the bolt for it would be perilously close to the top of the block, possibly fixed by using a shallower cladding for the top of the wall such as brick slips.

Looking for some advice on planning a small deck, probably less than 3x3m. The garden is currently excavated about 250mm below where I want the surface to be. I'd like for beds to be within 50mm of this level and (stone slab) paths to and from flush with it. All the info I've seen on ground...

Cheers, yeah I thought about that, works out expensive, though they'd be reusable at least. Not sure I'd get enough use to make it worth the investment.

oh yeah? ok. I wondered if it would be flexible enough and strong enough, but I'll be happy if you're right as it's half the price.

Can anyone advise on the best sheet material for forming a 2.8m circle to form a concrete base for a patio. In truth it will actually be ring, essentially a small retaining wall which I can fill with sub-base, so a 2.4m diameter form inside the 2.8m, 100mm above the current grade and about 150mm...

I have a concrete slab outside my house that previously had concrete slabs laid on a dry sand and cement mixer. Both of those have now been removed and I'd like to re-screed before laying foam underlay and artificial grass. My reason for this is the slab is very rough and it also pools water...

Thanks, it's not the main I'm replacing but the supply pipe from the front door to the back of the house, that's currently 15mm and pondering using 22mm as the replacement.

Thanks. I've logged a request with my water board to test.

For reasons that are too longwinded to explain here, I'm going to have to get my supply pipe replaced. Currently 25mm Alkathene enters by the front door and runs approx. 10m in 15mm to the back of the house where it splits off to the taps, appliances and combi boiler. My question is: do you...

Thanks @bobasd and others for your opinions, so I've taken your advice, and the usual remedy seems to be tanking to above the DPC then plaster over. I'll talk to my plasterer mate and see if he's familiar with the process. I would love to have a nice suspended wooden floor and then lime...

I have a Victorian end terrace that has been a bit neglected over the years, that's not to say not modernised, but done so unsympathetically. The main living space at ground floor has a concrete floor which extends from side to side of the original house through the hallway. The rear of the...

Hmm, I fear getting a bit sidetracked here, but the drains run towards the back of the house and the water supply runs above the slab at the side of my hallway, so I don't think they're the reason for the dampness on the internal wall. It's a 3 way junction just off middle of the slab, so I...

I own a 1900s Victorian end terrace. My side wall is on the boundary and adjoins 4 neighbouring plots of an adjacent road. On clearing out the end neighbors garden yesterday, in preparation for some minor render repairs, I noticed that it's in much worse state than I first thought in places, so...