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that seems a long winded way of doing it why cant you just have blockwork with 100 mm cavity ??

slate all tiles mate just bed on with mortar

can someone please explain what a section 52 is as its holding up the sale of my house cheers

if your pipes are that far below ground I cant see it being a problem

what about the steel did he extend the bearing ??

can you not use a concrete lintel ?

ah yes forgot about them plastic jobs, however is their enough brickwork their to put them in ? whats the reason for putting a stepped flashing in couldn't the brickwork be lower so the lead upstand went straight under the coping ??

its looks like there is no dpc below copeing stones , and why have they built the brickwork that height ? you cant put a tray in stepped brickwork

try your local reclaim yard

yep raft is ok ,but why the 2 skins ?

I agree with jeds apart from the 150 mm I would go for about 250mm to 300 mm depth

can you post some pics up as from what your saying it dosnt sound to good, your new blockpaving should be below your dpc level and your air bricks should not be blocked

for the sake of a roll of poly I would put it down followed by insulation then screed

plus 5 will be fine for footings mate

mp looking at my early morning post I think I might be a bit light ,! I would go for 4 bags of sand and 30 cement mate !!

my estimates are for brick and blockwork only

for 1500 bricks = 1.5 ton for 700 blocks = 0.7 ton so I would go for 3 x tons bags and 25 bags of cement 5 litres of febmix :D

hello if you were building a chimney stack on a new house, where would you put the lead dpc (s) the chimney is flush with the outside skin and dead center of the roof .

if the damp is not going inside the house then there is no issues , however if your that woried its quite easy just to insert a dpc in the bed joint 150 mm above the patio. ps if its a tiled patio do not go on it while its wet !!!!

ive had to go for the indemnity ,just to speed things up the house has been on the market for a long time and the buyer is getting itchy feet cant afford any messing about, estate agent said its because the upstairs didn't come under building regs at the time , as it was signed off as a single...