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Hello. The car started making a noise so I called out the breakdown people. He says its the dual mass. So its about £1,100 for a flywheel and clutch fitted. With a 2 week wait. Ive been told by the garage its possible that the gearbox and engine could be damaged. As the car is only worth £1500...

Thanks both of you. I did a test. Not good news. I poured water In and nothing came out at the manhole. So did a little dig near the down pipe as I feared it might go to a soak away. Found out it was heading in the right direction so probably blocked or caved in. Then it dawned on me after...

Hello. We are moving the upstairs bathroom to the other side of the house. (Got building regs etc). Is it ok to use the underground rainwater pipework already there to carry the toilet water into the drain. It's a shared drain already and I'll put in a new stack. Should I do a dig to check...

Would that get past building regs?

Those ideas sound more like it to me. Do you mean galvanised corrugated sheets?

So having decided to shutter foundations due to water seeping in I'm trying to find out the basics. but I'm struggling to work it all out.Removing the form work after the pour is apparently the way to go. but that seems really hard. Do you dig the trench wider and remove it after it's set. I'm...

Dig it, get it signed off and poured in a day. Fetch my cape.

So I had a look at a small trench I dug yesterday and there's was a few inches of water and the sides were falling. Picture attached (I think can't tell on my phone). It might be worse as it's only 2m length but I'm thinking I need to shutter as I go. Unexpected as it's sandy not shrinkable...

Thanks. The sales rep from cemex said it was gen3 for 2 storey but it was news to me. If you can have a look at a new thread I'm starting please do. I've had a setback.

I think we were told 225mm at bricklaying college about 20 years ago. If you can have a look at a new thread in staff please do everyone. Cheers.

Thanks. A couple of things I've never questioned before. Is there a minimum depth of concrete for foundations and is it always gen1 for single storey and gen 3 for 2 storey?

Sounds like you're talking about what my inspector/officer calls bedrock. Ta

You've convinced me. Ta.

So I've started digging out. I only do this every few years and a couple of things have occurred to me. There is a Concrete slab there already. Can you measure from the top of that to get a metre depth? In some places its got hardcore under and in others there's a slab and paving stones on top...

I've now seen all the other posts after nosalls. I wasn't going to as the truck can back right up. But are you saying that's a lot for me to drag around with a rake? Cheers

Thanks everyone, very helpful as you're all pretty much in agreement and saying what I was hoping you would. And yes I did write the depth wrong. Cheers

Hello. I'm having trouble finding the amount of ready mix needed. The company I got a quote from reckon it's 14 metres M3. But when I went on thier own calculator it says 11. It's not a straight forward shape but I'm pretty sure the length and width comes to 14m2. The depth I expect to be .800...

Thanks. I looked the trees up previously. Using one of those apps that identify plants etc from a photo of the leaves. Luckily the closest one is in group 3 or c (whichever). Cheers.

So I think the engineers comments were 600mm wide. Depth to be agreed with officer/inspector. Go down an extra 500mm if there's any roots bigger than 2 inch thick. Sounds like I better just dig them the agreed depth and width. Get the BCO in and ask him how thick to pour them.