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Bloody hell. Blackpool are running riot. It's a long season though.

Utterly ridiculous.

Hello mate, a basic of screwing into walls is that the rawplug fits sunggly into the hole you've drilled. Look at the size of the drill bit you are going to use and hold it next to the rawplugs. Should be approx the same size. Around the house i use a 6mm drill bit and red rawplugs. When...

I have never had this problem myself (cracking above a newly placed steel. But it is always a concern. The task of adequately propping the upper house load is not as simple as is being intimated here. If a 1mm crack had to be factored in to the calculation of the size of steel required and the...

I don't know if hanging is the answer. I don't know if what we do now is the answer either. It is actually a far reaching question. I mean...what leads someone to murder or kill in the first place ? What do you do with a killer ? What good is someone once they have killed ? What has...

This must be most amusing to the OP. I think you should do your concrete slab half and half. Membrane under one half. Other half unmembraned with a movement joint inbetween. Post back every 10 years and let us know which half is holding up better.

How bloody marvellous it would be to see some younguns getting notice letters that had won an apprenticeship. And to see some younguns getting notice letters telling them that they had qualified to be tradesman. It aint, or shouldn't be, all about younguns that have had twenty-odd years of...

Uri ... do you think that is why his mums card was marked ?

Fancy writing all that out and forgetting to tell us the answer....lol You forgot to tell us if the instructor said wether or not it would be ok to carry the golf bag.

Yeah pics. I look forward to them Alan. Close up, medium distance and further back pleeeeeze.

To membrane or not to membrane ? That is the question. Wether it be nobler of the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes. All i said was........i would. 1000 litres of anything is alot of weight. Wet and damp winters have a habit of helping things sink. How wonderful...

Ask the company that makes the garage doors you want if they supply fitting instructions. If they do then get them, read through them, and decide then if you are up to it. Read through them a couple of times before you make your mind up as very rarely will you fully grasp something from...

They'll be fine to re-use by the sound of it. Sounds like the pug is drying out too quick. Like the bricks are so dry that they suck all the moisture out of your mortar mix. What you could do, to combat this, is dampen the top of the bricks you're about to build on. And even dampen the bricks...

If you've done some brickwork before do it yourself. If not get a bricky. You can't really take a section of wall and fix it it on one bed of mortar as it wouldn't be tied in to anything. It would literally be sat there on one bed and not very stable. If you used a bricky he would probably...

I would digout an extra 50mm deep and make a sub-base out of old bricks, broken slabs, rubble etc. Hit them hard into your soil with a club hammer (watch your eyes). couple of bags of building sand spread over rubble to give you a smooth surface. Then lay some thick plastic down over the area as...

Just thought it would be worth mentioning that sds drill bits will drill many many more holes for you than the average 'normal masonary bits. They cost more but you really do get a lot of use out of them. Buy one and try it. I'm sure you'll be impressed.

Does it move if you carefully nudge it whilst holding it ? Or is it still solid ? If still solid just rake out loose mortar as Peteperfect says but i would repoint the joints with fresh mortar. Use a pointing trowel to carefully fill the joints (don't smear over bricks at all). Not too wet...

Ahhhh the poor old gradute wannabe's will have to do a job where they get their unspoilt soft little hands .......dirty ? Perish the thought. How truly terrible.

I think you have to cut out an area of brickwork underneath where your steel will sit. And replace whats there with 3 courses of engineering bricks. The engineering bricks, as a steel support, are so the new bricks will form a perfectly flat surface for the steel to sit on as well as for their...

I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more.....mwahhhhh ha ha ha ha haaaaa. Something about that line...huh ?