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That sounds likely - thanks!

Great - thanks Andy. Good to know that external concrete blocks aren't automatically a no-no, but I'm not sure I'd be able to tell ones designed for the purpose from the other. He mentioned something about the council telling him he's got to render it, but I'm not yet sure why (I'm also not...

Thanks for responding Andy. Fair point on the benefit of the rendered wall. Just so I'm clear, is the 'it's impossible to do from the inside' point that it really is impossible (or at least would cost as much as the extension itself) or is it more at the 'ouch, that's going to hurt' level...

Hello, We’ve recently moved into a terrace house where the neighbour had recently ‘completed’ a rear ground floor extension that comes up about an inch from our fence. Turns out that their builder decided he could get away with using concrete blocks for the bits of this wall hidden by my...