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Small gain, well, reasonable gains. Got another 1m of back garden. Still behind front elevation of house though. The in-ground pool dream is evaporating a little and I'm focusing on making the area a usable space as big as possible. Then get an above ground pool for a couple of years to, ehem...

Oh, right, yeaaaaaaa. You'll be fine. In fact, I imagine it's last a damn long time with just a piece at the front. By the time you've built that up to 150mm and load has spread out at 45 degrees, you'll only have a 30cm unsupported span. But if you're actually going for the secret entrance to...

Agree with Woody here. Did patio last year and while most of it was smooth, there were a few bits where the 'dust' was absent after compacting. It ate a fair amount of sand before being 'full'. I did leave the sand in the sun and it was powder dry mind.

So is the base of the Pizza oven, or is this a platform for a free-standing one to sit on? how big will the load be dimensionally? If it's 600kg point load in the centre, I would be wary of needing a bit more rebar. if 90% of the load will be directly above the walls that the concrete sits on...

I have a fence that runs down the side of my corner property with a pavement (~1m wide) and road on the other side. The alleyway between fence and house is 2.2m wide. There is a drop of ~800mm from the pavement level to the nominal garden grade. This has been handled by an embankment and/or...

Retaining wall Query

Clearance has started. Slow going at the moment as I need space to work. But giant brick pillar is down and sleepers are out the way. Going to pull back the remainder of the raised bed in front of the fence by hand and get it grab-bagged away. Then move the fence behind wood shed back another...

The great pillar

The great pillar has fallen

Photo diary of moving towards having a pool

I'm dumbfounded... I have the green light from the missus to legitimately look at building a pool in the garden as well as a sizeable budget, but it only stretched to DIY (oh no... anyway...). The loose plan I have at the moment is as follows: Outdoor, 2/3 submerged. 8,000 - 10,000l 2x4m, 1m...

The area of the garden floods quite readly so I'm planning some form of soak away / turf area for that. Pool chemically laden water I can either pump through 2" hose to the manhole cover in front garden or run an extra 4" soil pipe from foul drain round into back garden. The falls all work for...

The paint should sort the leakiness. Am thinking maybe a Chlorinated Rubber paint that has a guild build up. Would also deal with the scratchiness, but damage would be an issue possibly.

Long time since I posted here. Finished the renovation of Death House and got married and had a kid, and now she's in school and wanted a paddling pool that I put a heater in, and I love it, but want it bigger.... Long story short, I want to make a pool. But this time I have budget (y)...

Wouldn't this be an issue with non exported earth, say a metal light switch just inside a utility backdoor of the main dwelling (Assuming no incoming metal and bonded services)? Wow... 9A... that's a reasonable daytime average, but around dinner time, I can see that being much higher on an...