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Hi Is there any way in which to upgrade the glass in traditional single glazed units to improve the heat loss. Can double glazing units be substituted into the frame?

Hi There is a guide line for types of soils and I'm sure its in the NHBC book and it depends on how far you can drive a 50x50 piece of wood. A cherry tree is fairly low risk and according to my charts if you assume the soil is high shrink then you need to go 1.8m

Hello Just wondering what is the standard way of strengthening timber beams. Where extra capacity is required due to extra loading requirements. Maybe using steel plates? I cant get to the bearing plates of the beam so any solution will need to be partial strapping etc Cheers

Is there any way to copy dvds the same way we put songs on an ipod? I have too many dvds and would like to put them on a hard drive? Cheers

Hi Does any one know of a good battery fed impact resistant full face mask other than the jsp power/aircap? Cheers

It all depends on spec of finish £1000 per square metre is a good guide but if you have expensive tastes it will go up conciderably if you do everything on a budget then you can do it for £800. Most trades in the building trade work on about 10-15% profit.

The house on the land would cost approx £1000 per square meter of living space so if the house is 150000 to build you dont want to be paying more than 100000 for the land.

Hi I remember reading somewhere that you should use a 1:4 cement:sand for slabs and paving but I cant find where I read it. Is this right and why would you not use lime in the ground i.e. 1:1:4 Cheers

http://www.isomass-lbu.co.uk/Downloads/NHBC-2006-4-4-page-4.pdf

Hi I've not had a problem with thier analysis all I do normally is take a large unbroken piece from what is dug out. If you get a fairly high bearing cap then for a single storey it should be fine. if you speak to then you can ask exactly what you require eg shrinkability of the clay. Also...

Send a sample to structural soils in Bristol its about £70 to give you a bearing capacity just make sure you have a representative undamaged sample.

There is obviously a reason that the house was piled as this an expensive option to go down. I'd be careful that you have not just hit a shallow seam of firm clay that is sat on something less substantial.

If a lot of bricks are blowing this is usually because the mortar is excessively hard?

Hi Both these options are possible and both depend on planning etc. Is yours the only bungalow in the street have others been altered in a same way. If you want to build a second storey you will need the foundations inspected. 7m is fairly typical and 45 degree roof pitch would be enough. But...

Hi Obviously the drilling was to install a chemical dpc so none of those bricks can be touched. the damaged bricks under dpc will need replacing as they are too blown. The black stuff assuming its mould will come off with a powerwasher and the rest of the render may come of with some brick acid...

Tube driver - £50000 a year

I was just being general really But it has to be good fun to drive and be practicle no kids so not a problem What do you reckon is the fastest you can get for £5000 but remain quite sensible.

Norcon, What was the construction of the retaining wall? was it similar to the one described above. I recently did a gravity wall that was 1500mm high and 900mm wide at the base. So you would be looking at somewhere near 600mm wide for a metre high gravity wall.

You can take a quite a lot of the mortar out from around the stone but I wouldn't go more than about 30mm back and if they start to become loose just point in sections with a hydraulic lime 3.5 NHL 1:4 with building sand

What car would you have if you only had £5000 to spend?