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  1. Deluks

    Block work workshop footings ?

    If you avoid digging any big holes and clad it in something other than wood or uPVC, you don't need regs, it's just a shed. Timber framed would probably cost more in materials and time than the blocks alone, but when you factor in digging foundations and pouring concrete, it might start to...
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    Block work workshop footings ?

    The other option is to abandon the blocks idea, just build a couple of courses of brick off the slab, and put up a timber framed shed, you could use metal cladding sheets or fibre cement cladding to meet the 'substantially non-combustible' rule, insulate between the studwork for bonus thermal...
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    Block work workshop footings ?

    Dig a test pit at the edge of the slab and see what's what. You could save some digging by doing a pad and beam foundation, but you'll still have to dig holes for the pads, then the expense of steel beams, rebar or massive concrete lintels. When you come full circle you'll probably decide that...
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    Block work workshop footings ?

    Do you want to risk having to rebuild it?
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    Missing bricks under chimney stack

    You may have undermined the house! Older houses didn't always have a 'proper' foundation.
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    Garden gate post height

    Install gate first, temp fix the new higher post with short screws/bungee/gaffa tape. Have a spare shorter timber to hand and show them how each option looks.
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    Getting rid of garden gravel via Facebook Marketplace - What has your experience been like?

    Depends on your area, in some places people will take any old crap! Write potential uses for it in your advert, this might inspire someone to think they need it. Dirty gravel, could be washed in a sieve and reused, or used to fill a disused pond, build up ground or increase soil drainage.
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    How is it that no-one developed UV resistant vert blind plastics?

    Because they want you to buy more!
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    Precast and PreStressed Concrete Lintels

    Well I'm glad we finally got this cleared up after 18 years.
  10. Deluks

    Adding pillar support for RSJ

    I'm not gonna guess an answer, but to elaborate on your question, what constitutes your foundation?
  11. Deluks

    Adding pillar support for RSJ

    Steel post? Might have to dig a new pad under it.
  12. Deluks

    preventing a shed base from rotting, engineering bricks ?

    Upvc trim, ask local window fitters for offcuts.
  13. Deluks

    Is Milliband the new PM in waiting?

    The fact that he went along with this at all, rules him out for me.
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    Incorrect soil stack install?

    Wow, that's amazing! A water park inspired water closet.
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    Extension (Roof) Insulation & Downlights

    It's not just builders who are chancers these days, some professionals can be very unprofessional... Happy wife happy life! I think the neighbour would've put me off buying the property before the dodgy insulation job did. You might as well go and live in the garden! I can think of mamy...
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    Extension (Roof) Insulation & Downlights

    Was it signed off by a Mr Steven Wonder? Is there any indication of insulation between that OSB deck and the fibreglass roof deck? It looks like insulated plasterboard has been used, this would normally be in addition to a much thicker insulation layer above it, it's woefully inadequate by...
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    Soundproofing?

    Fix the door problem first. A couple of fire doors, one for the garage and one for the arch. No point in lining walls whilst you have a gaping hole for sound to pass through.
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    This is not the country I moved to!

    Standard!
  19. Deluks

    Can the England flag ever be cool again?

    According to the Guardian, wearing union jack slippers makes you far right.
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