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    Removing bricks from wall - what's safe

    I thought it would be okay but wanted to clarify, Thank you for the quick response
  2. SouthDrive

    Removing bricks from wall - what's safe

    Hello, My gas supply has been moved and whilst the hole is dug I'm also going to swap the old steel water pipe to a new MDPE pipe, Id like to repair the brick work by "toothing in" the new bricks. Is it safe to remove the old damaged bricks without any additional support for the bricks above...
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    Replacement MDPE water main advice

    Hey Cdbe, Yea, as you suggest I'm going to follow the same path that the existing pipe is taking. I'll do my best to patch the wall up as well, May I ask why you would use sand rather than cement or concrete to fill the hole? I hadn't really thought of that, but it would make it easier to...
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    Replacement MDPE water main advice

    Okay, looks like Armaflex is the thing, I'll try to put some pictures up when I'm finished, Thanks for the tips
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    Replacement MDPE water main advice

    Thanks for the advice Hugh I actually had an insuduct system and sent it back, the footing projects significantly beyond the outer skin and the installation of it would have been a bit messy. Cdbe Internally I have what appears to be a solid concrete floor. (1950s ISH house I think). Ducting...
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    Replacement MDPE water main advice

    Hello The internal stop cock in my house is seized, it's connected (internally) to the other end of the rusty steel pipe in the picture, I decided to replace it and I had a couple of questions before I started. Q1 -what is the appropriate way to install the replacement mdpe pipe? should It...
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    Advice request: External cracked brick & mortar lines

    Thank you so much for that explanation, could you kindly provide a glossary for this part though, :giggle: I understood none of it! "it went off bond because they forgot to cast an eye down to the perps below, and they thought "f*** it, it's not my house" and lashed a load of half bats in with...
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    Advice request: External cracked brick & mortar lines

    Hello, Hello, I was clearing out my front garden earlier and I noticed these cracks in the mortar and also 1 crack through the centre of a brick (see blue image, crack is highlighted between parallel orange lines) - Should these cracks be of any alarm, in particular the cracked / snapped...
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    Large root growing into foundation

    Hi, I've got this root from a rose/bramble bush growing into the foundations of this house, its cracked the mortar and appears to have cracked a brick in half (this is visible in the right hand side of the photo. Cut it out asap I assume?> thanks Will
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