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Not totally wasted .... Miss Galore and myself had a giggle over that :D To the OP - how many blocks do you have to cut? I find just scratching with the end of a tape measure then tap away with a bolster and hammer, gently for the first few taps and then more heavy and you usually get a clean...

See what others say but if it were me I'd do whatever is needed to get a decent support under there - in the form of a noggin - especially if it is in an area regularly walked over.. I'm assuming it's your own place in which case a possible squeak or worse further down the line will be a major...

Yes it would have been a lot simpler however I wanted a very specific look to the room with narrow rendered columns between the windows and the door so that it didn't look too "conservatory-like / fabricated" if that makes sense - as per the sketch. Wanted to maximise the window space, hence the...

Depending on the construction of your existing ceilings below the loft another issue you might have is the ceilings cracking. Most boarded up lofts are suitable for intermittent use, and just one person's weight etc but once you are up there more often and you get more specific loads up there (a...

Thanks. Having recently used insulated plasterboard on my garage conversion I did think of this but I'm assuming you just mean only put it on the single wall where all the steel is? 3 of 4 walls are external of a 5m x 4m room and that means a lot of expensive insulated plasterboard otherwise...

Greatly appreciate the ongoing help from here. As per below details we're soon to be installing steelwork consisting of 2 x outer I-Beam uprights (C1) then 2 inner 80mm square section windposts (WP1) which then all support a cross beam with welded plate (to support inner and outer leaves above...

Well the blocks are all in and it is a lot more level than I expected - I've previously had beams protrude higher than the block face but this is all very even. There's a very slight camber of less than a cm over a 4.8 metre span so unless there's any other major points raised I think I'll go...

Yep they are sat on my drive at the moment and have an obvious curve but will see what they are like when down and loaded up.

The room flows in to an existing room / hallway which is all laminate and we want the same all throughout so not too concerned from that point - but thanks for the heads up.

Hi, Any particular cons of a floating floor on top of beam and block as opposed to screed? Screed will mean cost of another trade coming in but more-so would like to do as much as poss myself. I'm well pleased with the floating floor I just put in my garage conversion but for the new single...

I'm already wearing my cowboy hat having suggested to the builders we "rough up" some pipe to make it look old and quickly plumb it in lol

As it happens we are actually being charged by the water company for rainwater discharge - so I will be claiming that back if we don't end up discharging in to the sewer system!

Doing groundworks for an extension and just uncovered the existing drainage on my 70's bungalow to what looks to be a bit of a bodge. See photo where the 4 pipe runs from top to bottom are : Sink / shower waste Toilet 1 Toilet 2 Rainwater from the whole half side of the roof. We thought we...

That's what I was thinking so should the original builders not have bridged the inner DPC with that plaster coat that goes all the way down to the floor, maybe should they have only come down to just above the DPC? Or does it not matter as originally being an airy garage any moisture rising up...

If she has indeed grabbed your land please get it back, I don't care how you do it but please do. She sounds like someone I knew, I had a fallout with her over her wrongdoing and the way forward was to take her on, be very firm and direct but keep it professional. Kept my head, whilst outlining...

Thanks all for the input - it came down a bit easier than expected in the end and with just my disc cutter doing the horizontal cuts as mentioned above. That's the beauty of just asking others - as I would have done angled cuts (like chopping a tree down) whereas going horizontal and whacking...

Cheers - I'll have chat with the hire guys. I doubt I'll have future use and don't have much storage space so the thinking is I'd rather pay £40ish to hire a heavy duty £400 bit of kit that will def do the job as opposed to possibly struggling with £150 bit of kit. I'm a mech engineer with a...

I'd happily hire a breaker - I've a fairly chunky SDS hammer but that just bounced off - and I'm sure a breaker is better suited but having never used one before is there a certain type / minimum rated one I should go for? This looks like its going to put up a fight !

Just spent best part of a day (well I'm currently suffering with Covid o_O) demolishing / removing the outer brick skin of a 1.5 metre high brick gate pillar and am now left with the central concrete core, same height and around 35cm square. It's worryingly solid, with a small stub of scaffold...

Cheers. I'll plonk whatever thickness I can between the battens - then along with the 50mm insulated main walls, heavily insulated floor and partition semi external wall I can happily say to BC I put in more than reasonable effort to improve insulation of a very short stretch of external wall...