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No Come and have a look. What can you do? Cheers

FYI http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/how-cold-can-you-go.419992/ this was Wednesday and it was freezing,... so long as you cover it up it appearts you are fine... Inspected mine last night and it looks okay... tried pulling a stone off and its well stuck... It got a lot to do with water...

You may be right.. should have gone for someone better who'd take more care and probably be quicker... but how do you know until they start.. they came recommended... ??

A lean-too roof can't be hard can it?.. its only in 1 plane...... its 3.56 meters x 3.5 meters and the first quote was £5K LOL.... thats what I mean when i say 'arm and leg'... nutters quoting those prices always worry me!!

No time!.. I've got to work..... so you think stone in the wrong way, cast concrete ends on show and now sills cut at angles is acceptable do you?... your obviously a builder out of the same mould!

The problem is getting someone else to pick the work up now it's 2/3rds built...

I will ask for a price to finish the job TBH they are not the best and are not taking care. For example I have two stones on a corner showing a cast face and not a split face! What can be done with those?

Well the answer today is a combined effort of 3 mtrs sq and two sills... they are using re-constituted stone blocks and have cut to length and fitted a couple of stone sills also... that's 1.5 sq meters each FFS... I could do that!! Me thinks they are taking the P !! what do you think they...

well its got blankets / bed sheets / curtains etc all over it now so should be okay... that said it is bloody could out there... -2 I guess.... not much progress though! 2 brickies 8 hours each... what sq meters would you expect from them on re-con stone blocks?... well they managed 3 mtrs...

what.. just a single bed sheet.. or something a bit more robust?.. I have lots of visquene but I guess it's not the best insulator?... will have to raid the airing cupboard

My builders are on site today laying the stone on the outside of my extension... It's -2 out there :shock: ... okay, they will wait until it warms up a tad but what about it freezing tonight?... what's the lowest new mortar should see??.. :)

Dreadlocks and everything... :D well, you know what I mean... all the wooden stuff that goes up there.... :P

oooops.. posted twice :oops:

My small extensions nearing completion on build and I need someone to put the roof on... It's a simple lean-too roof but does run into the existing garage roof so will need a gully.... Quite a simple job I'd of thought.... Can anyone recommend someone to do this?.... Joists / board / batten /...

Thanks for that (taper being from the back of the block to the front).. I didn't want them pushing out... but guess it would have to be a lot more for it to do that... Not sure what other 'cast' products have.. maybe some of these have 'draw' to get them out of the mould??..

Here is a question for those who know about wall building…. I’ve had to cut some 140mm high Costone done to get 100mm blocks.. problem being that the saw was not perfect and has put a bit of a tapper on the top face…so if I measure one side of the block it’s 100mm… but the other side it’s...

intersting though... I've just put a block on a strip of Visquene and pulled it out... you do that with DPC and it won't move (the block falls over).. so even if they are small 1mm diamods imprinted in the surface, it does prevent any sideways movement for sure ;)

Like using slicks in the wet LOL. Sure I know what you mean. So will be fine. Cheers

OK.. so I have a small 3mtr extension being built... I've dug a hole 3 x 3 and put strip foundations in... I've then got about 1 meter of solid foundation blocks to bring the build out of the ground just below surface level.... On the outside of this I've put Visquene in a Z shape.. so it sits...

Im told by building control that tanking is not required,, we are well drained so should not be a problem... and its on the outside of the build so should be okay.. just a OTT precaution as I had to buy a big roll of the stuff. . On the DPM v DPC... The DPM being Visquene... but at least DPC...