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Hi Currently converting a 4x3m conservatory into a orangery, have completed the internal walls using thermalite blocks. I'm now at the stage where I can start putting up external walls. My questions are the following sorry if they are daft 1, can I use the thermalite on exterior? If I'm going...

What size timber is used for capping? Span is 3.8m internal block to block was gonna use 47x170 c24 beams and double up around lantern, the reason I was asking if the beams are ok running parallel with the original house wall is I have a 3m door so the beams would not be supported. If I run...

Hi Putting flat roof on a conservatory As title which would be best for capping thermalite blocks to allow flat EPDM roof & plastic lantern? Also beam direction, is it ok to run beams parallel with the existing property as apposed to 90 degrees? Cheers

So I have now started this project installing the internal block work soon to be moving onto external brick work. My issue is roof height internally. The door is 2090mm high and from advice given here I was really hoping to not need a lintel above the door as it's span is 3m, but without...

Finished trench and just moved dirt and hosed down patio I'm about 40cm down so far still clay and water don't seem to be shifting

Keep digging and it's just clay. A lot of the clay/dirt was dry under that big puddle

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Also I've dug down even more to soil and the odd house brick and large pebbles lol House is newish build 10ish years

Just for point of reference I didn't dig much of a trench last night, I've just got the water out of it see picture

Yes I dug through clay in the trench. I'm thinking i complete the trench then dig another trench towards the middle of the grass area, then a hole with some hardcore lay some pipe to transfer the water to the bigger hole in the center? The grass said it was permeable and does have holes in it...

So yesterday I start to dig a trench out and this morning awoke to the attached photo! Before the grass went down nothing like this happened at all,. I'm lost for words right now! What the hell do I do

Yes it does look nice but not the look I was going for we have put cobbles around the border of the patio. Before the sand has gone into the grass area it seemed fine like I said it would gather in the lowest pinch point at the edge of the grass but now seems to gulf a large area around the...

Hi DIY patio job by myself lol Anyway Indian sandstone patio laid on 100mm mot 1 then 4-1 solid base. Patio falls into an area where artificial grass will be going now the patio is in a L shape around the grass area so the fall obviously goes away from the house but also at the end of the L I...

The 140mm joist would be sitting directly on concrete in place doesn't it need some breathing room? The only other thing I have read is keying down some MOT with concrete and then building it up with that? Around the edges where there is no supporting wall he could just build a little retaining...

Hi I'm looking for some advice on what to do with a garage floor, the aim is to have the room as a summer room. The project is not mine but the farther in-laws. He wanted to put floor joists down bit of insulation in-between the OSB boards, but after being around today to help him level of it...

Hi everyone So i have layed my own patio over the past few months while being at home on furlough as a novice doing it I struggled with laying and mixing cement at the same time along with putting to much cement down and it squishing out between slabs resulting in me having to get the slab back...

Scrap that I know how to get the support Shorten the roof to stop above door then add a overhang extension part to it What size timber will I need for the roof? thinking of 400 centres?

Cheers Nothing is to scale in the sketchup.. Would I get away with no bricks above the door and window? I added it as support with the catnip lintel, if I can do away with them it would make it easier. Yes going for warm roof the next door neighbours is a lantern I shall look into them

Hi everyone So I'm looking at sorting out my conservatory and after next door had a flat roof with a lantern fitted I plan at getting rid of the polycarbonate crap. So size is roughly 4m x 4m Glazed all around mini cavity wall with brick & breeze blocks My plan is as followed One wall...

Hi Anyone help identify these bricks? With lockdown it's hard looking at pictures on the website to identify and local sites don't allow much browsing Cheers