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Yes, there are special sealed manhole covers made for this application. However, if the sewer blocked and the manhole overflowed as can happen if your cover is lower than others.... what a mess inside your conny. Mind you, it is supposed to be sealed, so what might happen then, would it blow...

I would move the I.C.

I can visualise it all now, feet up on the footstool aka poof, blueray DVD playing latest blockbuster, and all the food and drink your heart desire's! Watch that waistline :wink:

jat147, I have re-read your post and now see it is for a retaining wall and not a simple wall so you may need sideways strength in the footings I guess, so sorry for the duff info, however as I detail below, I feel my composite footing would be stronger than the wall above it, so may be strong...

By writing "150mm space blankets", do you mean the very expensive multifoil insulation that BRE tests prove do not have anywhere near the insulation value claimed?

You are not going to have anyone live in it are you now?

Why not collect 0.9m3 of used bricks from skips in your area to add to the trench in layers alternating with the concrete to save some money and effort of mixing but at the cost of time in collecting the bricks?

diy001 you have now accused myself and ChapiTheBricky of 'throwing cheap insults' at you. And also accused me of writing a 'contmept (sic) filled post'. Whatever next? As for your rude remarks to FMT, they are unforgivable. Is this how you treat people in your day to day life?

I would not worry too much about ajrobbs proposal, you are not going to heat the place so part L does not apply. Who has heard of conserving heating energy in a building without heating? Why not put in a planning application for an outbuilding with walls 100 - 110mm thick (dense concrete...

You have just indulged in a classic forum con of switching my writing around to create a completely new sentence and therefore completely different meaning. I wrote 'build a complex structure(s)', where 'complex structure(s)' refers the building or buildings you propose to build. I hope you...

I assume woody menas the Airtec will be a waste of money and not the Kingspan? Buck, what type of 9" blocks are they?

I was hoping cuckoo might fly off buy and read the books recommended to him or her, but from his/her response this does not look likely to happen. Am I and ChapiTheBricky the only ones who feel diy001 should stop burdening this forum with endless questions over how to build a complex...

I bought my Chudley book from a jumble sale last year for 20p (20p for paperbacks, 50p for hardbacks). I had allready downloaded but had not read it on screen. I bought the Collins book of DIY many years ago. Both books have mistakes and duff info mind you, Collins book on concrete measures...

I only mentioned the use of a laser as a previous poster was suggesting a plumb line may not be easy to use in this instance. Windy conditions would present problems for a plumb line. Lasers are very useful for checking if things are in a straight line as I am sure most people know. Also, I...

FMT you are becoming far too agitated for your own good, remember, its only a forum. As 'woody' indicates, it is child's play to check if a walls are plum, there will aways be some clearance between scafolding and wall to allow trueness checks to be made, otherewise it would not have been...

An SE who doesn't have a pocket laser to point up/along the wall to use as straight line reference? Ye Gods!

Your SE thinks scafolding is distorting a brick wall? And hence it will undistort when removed? And you believe that? Ye Gods!

As far as I can tell from your readings, your inside wall temperatures are not far off your inside air temperatures, indeed at times they are greater than the inside air temperatures when outside is close to freezing! I did check my side house wall and for an average outside air temperature...

Thank you for your reply. You have not mentioned if you checked the calibration of the two thermometers with each other. To do this place the air thermometer on a piece of non metallic furniture in the centre of the room. When the reading has stablised, take a reading with the infra-red...

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