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Sorry mate, you mean it'll be fine to put one in?

Hmm, thanks Ivor - I thought I was doing the right thing by putting one in but perhaps not. I don't *have* to put one in. Basically, I have a run of 110mm plastic connecting to the existing clay. On my current run of plastic I have 1 toilet, 2x gullies (plus a downpipe), and r odding point all...

Thanks @noseall , glad it's not just me. Wasn't even something i gave consideration to til I went to buy one.

Great find, cheers - yes, that looks like it'd do the job

The drains at my house are really high (For whatever reason, 1930s build, doubt they gave a crap) as such I've always been constrained. I only juuust about got the fall I needed when I extended them for my extension. Problem is, I want to insert an access chamber as I'm rejigging a few things...

Thanks Bonni - I have accepted my fate and will dig it out til I'm happy!

Likewise, have to agree with @Ivor Windybottom here. I'm not anti trade and do of course use them. Good trades people will blow me out of the water at everything, absolutely no doubt. But finding them, and have everything work out, and in the way that I want......that's another question. In...

Hey all, I've got about 30sqm that is going to be taking something like 200 - 300mm of hardcore all in all to bring up levels. Somebody local to me is selling a serviced PCX 13/40 for £650 - I'm thinking for that price, I could buy it and sell it later. I don't really want to hire because it's...

Thanks @noseall - how much do you leave - do you dig to the top of where the concrete woould be, or do you leave more?

Hey all, I'm building a dwarf wall greenhouse which is going to be surrounded by a new patio. I've settled on traditional strip footings because I don't really want a concrete slab on show, and think I'll get a much cleaner finish by building it with footings and then a separate solid floor...

Hey all - I've started my new project this weekend, which is going to be essentially a 30sq meter patio. One key thing, while not a driveway I do want to be able to bring a car or motorbike onto this. I've dug out enough for a good solid 150mm (lower in places cos I'm no digger operator!) Type...

Thought I'd put up the finished pictures, but nontheless here they are better late then never! All in all, really happy how it all came out and very happy with my composite deck

Potentially, but you'd need to understand the drainage system better. For example, on my house, everything (literally everything) converged into a single clay pipe run from the back of the house to the sewer - so I was able to run all of my new drainage to the clay pipe. I can't see why you...

I've just come to replace the valves in our kitchen tap. It's a £180 CDA tap that went in just over 5 years ago (Because of course it did!) Anyway, it's not gone well - the valves, and spline and handles are horrendously corroded to the point I actually broke the splines off each of the old...

Not a very exciting morning but they all count! Got the last slabs down, and decided to chuck down some concrete in the funny corner rather than faff with a slab Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Unfortunately the Forum stopped letting me upload pics

And here's the wall as it stands, after a little wash: Imgur: The magic of the Internet So, you're up to date! I've got the slabs to finish up the sub base and I've got get the coping stones and decking sorted. In truth, financial constraints mean they might need to wait a little bit but I'm...

From there, it was just more of the same - I'm an exceptionally slow bricklayer, so it's taken a few weekends but I finally laid the last brick on Saturday! One thing I've completely skipped from this write up is laying the slabs. I literally just purchased council-style concrete slabs and...

One thing that I didn't really ever account for, is that by the time I'd done the subbase I was actually pretty much level, and sometimes below the top of the concrete footing. It's not ideal, really - my understanding is thta it should be below ground for frost proofing but to be honest it is...

Next step was getting the MOT in. Now, I know from doing my oversite on the extension that moving ton's of MOT wasn't the most fun and in fact can be a real nightmare. I'd got something like 8 bags to get in and with my back wasn't really looking forward to it. So, I took a controversial option...