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sorry, meant blockwork wall with cavity filled with concrete

I currently have 4 different excel files, which all contain 4 columns of the same information. I was planning to have the information included on the 4 files in one excel document, but as different worksheets. However, I would like the information to keep constant with Sheet 1, ie when I add...

That's exactly the product. It's not a retaining garden wall but a new build wall of an extent ion, that happens to be retaining the garden - as the current kitchen wall does. The engineer spec'd a 2 skin clockwork wall, with the cavity filled with reinforced concrete and the insulation on...

we are extending the current kitchen which has the lawn sitting against it (about 3 ft high) and will need to excavate a chuck of the lawn for the extension but obviously need to retain the lawn again. the drawings are for a fully tanked wall, poured concrete insitu wall - I though the...

greta looking job - have just started a simlar job in the garden and although I am not that far on yet, was wondering on what to bed the slabs on. What did you use onto of your base material? was it a dry mix of something?

we had a similar situation recently when we were having an extension built on the side of the house, where a soil pipe was fixed the full height of house but with no connections into it and well away from the kitchen and bathroom. when digging out the foundatiosn, found a underground drainage...

Planning an extension to the rear of the house and had thought about using the preformed poylstryene units for shuttering to form a retaining wall to about 3 ft high - this would also form the side, window wall of the extension. has anyone used these in the past? do they make sense over...

Planning to build a retaining wall from railway sleepers, about 2 foot high. Was originally planning to us the sleepers laid on wider edge, so only getting 100mm height per sleeper so wil obviously need to use more sleepers and connect them with timberlok fixings or similar as well as the odd...

Currently swapping my diesel with the wife for her 1.25l petrol fiesta! Currently commute approx. 100 miles a day, about 20,000 miles a year and had been thinking of looking for a diesel focus or astra, 1.6l engine, maybe 5 years or so old, but quite pricey. What with petrol cheaper at the...

Have a slate hearth that's marked from the fire and some rain coming down the chimney. Someone told me to clean it up with wire wool and wd40! Does anyone know if this is right and will I wreck my hearth?!

Planning to make a terrace at the back of the garden, full width, replacing a grassy slope with some steps. Have bought some new railway sleepers and should only need 3 steps to take in the slope. However need advice as to footing for the bottom sleeper? Should I I have a hardcore base...

Riveralt, sorry wasn't sure if it was clear! Your link is for what I had thought of. Currently have a normal set up of a main pendant light controlled by a single wall switch? The wife likes to use 2 or 3 lamps rather than the Pendant light! So wondered if we could have a double wall...

Was thinking of having a lighting circuit installed - where specific sockets are for lamps/floor lights are controlled from a wall switch. Am I right in thinking that these tend to be 5 amp circuit? Is it fairy straight forward ie can the feed be taken from the current light switch? Guess...

I think we may have mice?! We have a stone house with suspended timber floors and solum with a crawl space of about 3 feet. Have had scratching the past couple of nights under the living room floor. We have never had mice before (have lived here for 7 years) but I guess the cold snap...

I am trying to find a decent free download of software that will convert an avi file so that I can import into iTunes to watch on an iPad. Any suggestions?

always shut down fully at night so its a full restart and i keep getting the message. the router is connected to the PC with an ethernet cable and I have the wii and an ipad that use the wifi network this only came about when I changed from the old standard router to the wireless - can...

When I switch on the pc I get an error message stating "Windows - System Error. There is an IP address conflict with another system on the network" I recently changed my router for a wireless router, all working and when I cancel the above message, the pc works fine buts it annoying...

I am planning to use new sleepers as a retaining wall/steps upto a raised patio. The height is circa 400mm so will be using 2 sleepers of 200mm high, forming a step with a sleeper on its wide face (ie the 200mm face, so the step will be 300mm deep) - does this make sense?!! Currently, the...

Have been reading pavingexpert.co.uk and now unsure about what bed to use for a new patio. the patio will just be for light foot traffic, retained on all sides and I think I can get away with a dry, unbound bed, compacted and screeded? Anyone any experience of this?

its going to be 6m by 3m and was planning on using slabs as opposed to natural stone slabs wasn't sure if i needed a wet mix over the base given that it was "retained" on all sides?