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    Garden Buildings near boundaries

    Pay the £150 for PP and get a 3m high building, you can do the plans yourself using a CAD package, but ask Planning dept first if they will accept them.
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    Planning permission refused on grounds of "overbearing&

    Steve you come across in your posts as having an obsessive dislike for your neighbour. In the UK, people can behave anyway they please as long as it is lawful. Signs such as 'beware of the dog' and 'CCTV' are used to deter burglars. If I lived in a bungalow and next door wished to turn...
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    RSJ & Half Brick Party Wall

    You measure inside your house and next doors and outside. Measure distances A, B & C as below. The brown is a wall, and the blue is a window frame. And you mean 'won't' work not 'wont' work above.
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    Converting out-buildings into a bungalow

    Well someone on this forum has to try to encorage people to do some DIY :wink: FMT how was your trip to London for the wedding? Did you bump into NT88?
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    RSJ & Half Brick Party Wall

    Then measure on the first floor inside and outside from window frame to party wall in your house and in theirs and work out the thickness of the PW. Was is with the i i i instead of I I I these days?
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    concrete flooring

    Don't be sorry FMT, this person claims to not know what top soil is in the building section of a DIY forum and also has a history of abusing forum members.
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    Converting out-buildings into a bungalow

    Rebecca this is a DIY forum to support people doing DIY, what part of this project will you be DIYing?
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    RSJ & Half Brick Party Wall

    I was referring to removing a brick in the loft. Please re-read my previous post.
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    RSJ & Half Brick Party Wall

    Why do you think this? Your questions revolve around your belief that it is half brick thick yet you have not provided evidence to support this. Also breeze blocks cannot be 1880 vintage can they? Why not drill through the mortar and remove one brick in the loft to check or work out the...
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    Steel Beam Design Software

    Yes you do, unless you upgrade to latest version of DIYnot software.
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    Steel Beam Design Software

    I recommend the fully functional freeware I mentioned some moments ago!
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    Steel Beam Design Software

    I think the OP wants this freeware available here: http://www.structural-engineering.fsnet.co.uk/
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    Stepped cracks underneath window - see pictures

    Snide comments are against forum rules WTY433. Before my previous post to you, I had not heard of brick stitching either. But 30 seconds on google changed that, some of the hits were from this forum written by woody a few years ago. But searching this forum and googling for initial research...
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    Stepped cracks underneath window - see pictures

    WTY433 do some work yourself by searching this forum and use google for answers to the questions you raised.
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    Concrete mix for Foundations

    Recenlty I read on this forum from an experienced forum member that two good lads could mix 2m3 in one day and that would be a hard day's work for both. Therefore what you intend doing is not possible.
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    Concrete mix for Foundations

    bars03, do you intend to mix the 7.3m3 yourself in 1 day?
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    Cracks in wall - can I repair these myself?

    FMT the OP has some photos at the beginning of his post with an AA battery for scale. That is not a hairline crack. Anyway Mr woody has already advised the OP that the cracks would most likely come back if he just filled them. FAO of NT88 I think FMT is in one of his...
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    Using lime in mortar

    Can I have a message too hotrod?
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    Using lime in mortar

    I won't know untill I am able read it. My interest in the document is whether it has mortar mixes by weight as BS 5328 part 2 1997 has for concrete
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