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That's not so much installed, as rammed in. Caulking the top to the wall, and filling the nail holes, are arguably part of decorating, but those corners are atrocious. The one in the first picture is just smashed together and doesn't even line up

I bought some reconstituted stone window cills, that sat outside for two years before I used them, and went very green. After I'd jet washed them at close quarters, they now look quite old, as the jet wash has knocked the edges off and roughened the surface. So I suggest not doing that :)

That's what I did with mine. Cut all the insulation fractionally under size, rested on screws driven into the joists horizontally, then squirted a bead of expanding foam to fill the gap and hold it together

Further to my previous posts. We've built up first section, 5m x 2m brick wall, brick face with block skin and piers tied in behind (rear of wall can't be seen) We now have a 1.8m high section to build to the right (this is a design afterthought, which is why we haven't left toothing on the...

Yes I know about those things, thanks. To answer my own question, with a 450 pier at each end, entirely at the back of the wall, it looked so substantial that we contented ourselves with one additional pier at the midway point

Further to my question about my 2m high garden wall the other day - a couple more about the size of pillars We have the footings in for a 2m high section of wall, 5m long. At a future date it will be continued in one direction with a connected stone wall It's going to be one brick thick...

Very useful pics, thanks. I have just about enough reclaimed bricks left over from other projects for a half brick wall. The back side won't be seen, so to save cost I'm now planning to add a skin of 7N blocks behind the bricks, and tie both leaves together. 450mm Pier at each end and in the...

Oh, they're in the pic Great Wall 9 in that gallery, but I think that's the lower wall

OK. So the pillars are the same each side of the wall, so 18" deep? What is the role of the wooden posts in one of the pictures? Thanks

Yes you're rights, thanks, and after a bit more reading I'd be daft to do this as a half brick wall, Needs to be a full brick thickness (or possibly, given the supplies I have, reclaimed brick tied to blockwork behind it, where it won't be seen because it backs onto next door's garage). I've...

Half brick garden wall, 2m high, 6m length. Pillars how often, and how deep? Thanks Edited to say, same question for a 9" thick one brick wall, because on balance half brick is too narrow

Two things - firstly, most of the floor now has sand/cement in the joints, so using a different material isn't an option. Secondly, the flooring bricks were laid with the intention of no gaps, but there are small and irregular gaps because of the recycled nature of the material - some are...

I think I might need to go over the whole thing with a wet sponge, cleaning the tops of the bricks as I go. Ah well, they're only knees

Thanks both. Bricks were laid a while ago onto concrete, so the substrate is dry and likely to remain so. Yes, like in the picture only herringbone. and my mix was completely dry. Hmm

I've laid a floor in reclaimed flooring bricks in my garage that I'm building. I was going to fill the irregular gaps with kiln dried sand, but in the hope of avoiding sand coming out and kicking around the garage, I've used a kiln dried sand/cement mix, in the hope that atmospheric moisture...

OK, thanks. How would that relate to the time issue though?

I've got an odd one. We have an ancient (around 25 years old) Vaillant LPG combi boiler, controlled by a Drayton Digistat remote thermostat/timer thingy. The boiler decided some time back that it would only provide hot water erratically. If the heating was programmed to come on, it did. But if...

Drilling a few holes through asbestos cement board won't kill you. Wear a mask against dust