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Then we got battered by those storms just before Christmas, so that was nice! Being in the middle of this whole thing, and it being grim and cold, I'd stopped building by that point and opted to just pay somebody to do the fence. It was always on the list, it just...didn't need to be then...

With that done, I got some blocks down (yes, those are still below FFL!) and started building Rustic bricks, naturally, to cover up my bricklaying. It's "inkeeping"

When I built my extension I ran some 110mm drainage and there were a few things I wasn't happy with - especially in the context of building a patio. I wasn't very happy with rodding access, especially for the toilet which was on a T, and I needed some scope to plumb in ACO drains and a drain in...

After that, we settled on a greenhouse company and they sent me their dimensions for the walls. So I made some decisions - in particular, that I didn't want a typical concrete base. I just hate that look of buildings plonked on a base, with concrete showing. And, secondly, that I wanted to dig...

Then, the more we looked at it the more we hated the mess. She'd always wanted a "Proper" greenhouse, and due to some life events, it felt like now was the time to spend some money and treat the place. So in comes the plant, and I get to clearing the site. There was so. much. dirt. And it's all...

I actually didn't intend to start this project. My wife asked for better demarcation of the lawn, so I figured a little sleeper wall/step would do and let us tidy up the lawn. We always wanted the lawn level all the way round, then a step down onto a patio. So I picked up some sleepers, and...

I don't really have a before photo, because like I say it was a bit of a no mans land. This is the deck, wall and extension I did and you can see the area to the right. The grass just kinda slopes down into dirt and wonky slabs

Since renovating our house, we've been very slowly working round the garden. We did a small extension a few years back (documented somewhere on here), then a deck and garden wall project and now we finally came to the side of the house. This was always a bit "no mans" land - it wasn't really...

@cdbe Wow! What were you using to screed?

Thanks all - so on that note, my tiles are nominal 25mm (though reclaimed/rustic style), how far off FFL should I aim for?

Building up a solid concrete floor for a fancy brick-base greenhouse project - the finished floor is going to be reclaimed tile. When I built my extension I did the typical concrete and then 75mm of sand/cement screed and then ended up self levelling anyway because I'm not very good at...

Thanks @Hugh Jaleak , the support of the concrete was exactly my concern so it's good to hear I'm not just being paranoid!

Joyous. I've got an otherwise perfectly fine cast iron stack on my 1930's house, but while excavating for my new patio project I've discovered it's leaking (badly) around the clay connections. To add further complexity, most of this is under a garage / concrete slab (I'll get a photo and you'll...

Got a reasonable size patio (about 27m2) and I'd like it to be "done once"! When doing other projects I've never bothered with geotextiles but being on sand, there was definitely a fair bit of migration of Type 1 MOT into the sand before everything firmed up, so I'm gonna use it this time. For...

Spoke to a supplier and they said to just put a p trap under the aco. Feel a bit silly now, haha! Just expected it to be integrated I guess

Hi all, This feels like it should be a simple question! I'm re doing a patio (Well, the old one was some slabs on top of dirt but y'know...) and I want to put in an ACO drain. I only have a combined sewer, so foulwater drainage. Unless I'm totally missing something, only the HexDrain Pro line...

I've got a 1930's, solid wall, build. I've had to excavate a section for some drainage work and the pointing is pretty poor - well, in fact, you can barely see any mortar in parts so I'd like to joint it up before backfilling. Just wondering if normal sand/cement mortar will be okay - can't see...

Morning all, I'm building a dwarf wall for a 3rd party wooden greenhouse, so it has to be single skin (as that's what they spec). The foundations are having to be way lower than I'd like, as I'm making up a lot of ground as part of a patio. As such, the wall is going to be ~300mm underground...

The problem @Ivor Windybottom is I've got no room to manouvre. I'm spliced into a clay pipe which then runs under a pre-existing garage/drive, so I'm stuck at that depth which is already very shallow. Then the "high" side to speak is already in place, which is my extension, but I already got as...