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Hi I had a similar problem to this a little while ago and I cut about 10 bricks before ordering the slips. Although make sure you get samples as there are some rough looking slips out there

which one sorry?

Rake it out to 20mm use a 1:4 mix cement sand and add some waterproofing/ frost additive to it and you should be ok. but it is common for the last mm to shale up in this area and is not a problem if you can live with it.

Hi What is the best soft ware package for making your own web sites I'm using mr site but its not great. Cheers

Geraint, I don't know I'm asking the question, To take the place of the trussed elements and support the ridge? I've just seen either a ridge beam or purlins used as the size of the rafters wont span

Shouldn't there be a steel ridge beam on a trussed loft con. The collar ties are only holding the rafters down and not doing the job of a raised tie truss. The rafters should be a min of 150 deep i think? But the ridge looks unsupported to me.

I started off with stone walls exposed in my house and as far as I know the above solution is inevitable. I ended up covering them. If the mortar is crumbling and thats causing the dust then repoint but they are a pain.

The best thing I found for acid washing is heavy guage rubber gloves a fairly strong acid mix and a wooden finger nail brush then you can get into the smearing quite well and definately wash it off.

Hi I'm just what is required for a building regs application and whos responsibility it is to submit the drawings? i.e. are electrical latouts, structural steels pipe work etc required? Cheers

Just wondering if it is good practice to tie new foundations to the old ones or whether they should be seperated? Cheers

Just wondering what a going day rate was for a building labourer and a builder? Am I in the dark ages expecting to pay £80 and £110?

According to trada timber tables cieling joists wont span that far. What type of roof do you have? is it a truss or does it have purlins?

It is quite lightly loaded floor load only but has 4 trimmer beams spanning onto it. It is really just the span and the fact that there is no allowance for much deflection that the section size is big. The end reaction is around 70kN but has plenty of wall to spread it out. 70/5m= 14kN/m so...

Mark, Its bearing on a 100mm wall that is running at 90 degrees to the beam so has a full 254 bearing under the steel under this is a 440 x 100 conc block to further spread the load. I was having a conversation regarding this when I was shown a piece of information that said as you said...

Like you say its bearing length the width of the wall is 6m 7N/mm pad stone underneath 440 215 x 100. The bearing under the beam is less than 2N so well in as they say.

I have appropriate advice and a calc which shows that 100mm bearing is fine under a 254 UC. But people make mistakes and a discussion with a fellow had me questioning it. Thanks for the replies I now know that 100mm is fine as the wall is restrained. I got confused by single skin walls and tied...

Hi I have to put a 7m steel onto a 100mm wide wall. I have been told now that I should have a pier because 100mm is not enough? Its got me questioning myself. Is 100mm enough? cheers

Hi If you have a awbs builders merchant by you there sand in a 50 50 mix is normally quite good. If however you want a realy light coloured mortar you should play around with a 5:1 silver sand/ sharp sand with 1.5 part hydraulic lime. High price for the whole build though better to build in a...

Hi Jeds thanks for the answer, that seems reasonable have you had this done and can you recommend somewhere?

Hi just wondering if anyone has ever had any CBR testing done to proove the bearing capacity of soil and roughly how much I could expect to pay for it? cheers