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That's not bad then the price he gave me only works out about £20 more.

Ok it just been to travis Perkins and asked for some prices, they said: Standard 7n dense blocks, 450 blocks for 429.30 inc vat and free delivery Cement bag 3.85 each + vat Bulk sand 33.50 + vat I told him I didn't have a trade account but wether he did me any favours or not I don't know. I...

Good idea!

Yeah I'm not gonna use the lightweight ones.

This is a pic so you can see where the spade is lying that is concrete.

Ok some great info there :) I think I've got it now. Although one thing I'm not sure how I can do it is at the front end of the foundations it is right up to the concrete driveway and so there's no soil to hammer steaks into is there another way I can do it there?

I can't tell how serious you are about knocking a nail in the concrete

I'm gonna go and speak to my local tracks Perkins Tommorow and see what they have to say, there usually really cheap when I have been in for other stuff. As for not doing the trench all the way round I was advised on here and other places that there's no need to concrete under the door opening...

Sorry I should of put pics up first, that was from my other thread that I had open, you can see my foundations there.

My foundations are allready done and concretes in. It's at the back of my garden

Ok, I'm going to render the outside eventually. Cheers

Thanks guys, it's roughly 22ft x12ft and will be 2.5m high. As you have said I don't really want to use breeze blocks as they aren't strong enough. If I did the whole garage in the 7n dense blocks would that be ok? Any reason not to other than that they are heavy? B&q were about £80 for a...

Ahh I was searching google for allsorts but nothing what I wanted until you said that. It makes abit more sense now, will have a read of some of them google posts. I take it the actual batter boards themselves don't need to be anything special just some wood in that shape around each corner...

I have the founations done for my garage and not sure how to lay out strings etc.. to make a square corner inside the trench? For the concrete blocks. I know if I were doing it on the normal ground level I could use wooden stakes into the ground with string etc, but not sure in the trench...

Just a quick one, what type of concrete blocks should I be buying for my single skin garage build? I know I need the Dense 7N blocks for upto DPC, but then what to use above? I can't actually find any 'Normal' Concrete blocks? I have a selco account and Bnq trade point and they both have the...

Funny you should say that about the fence as that neighbour who's garden it joins onto came round yesterday to discuss a new fence so that will be done but not sure when. Also the path sounds like a good idea, I assume you mean to the left of the garage I between the fence and garage?

But are they not allot lighter than normal blocks? And easy to break? What would you recommend then? I know you need the dense 7n blocks up to dpc

Not sure yet, need to do abit of research and price the blocks up etc.. One of my mates is saying do it in breeze blocks but I'm not a fan and so I think concrete blocks will be much better and stronger

Got the concrete in today, it used a hell of allot more than it should of done because of the trench being 'slightly' bigger in places, think he said it was just under 6cubic metres worth! I paid £420 all in and they levelled it for me too using my new spirit level. Some pics: The...