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Hi Im intending to do the same sorta thing in the easter break, but will be using solid concrete blocks. Your foundations depending on ground soil should be at least 400mm if your ground is like mine which is clay and soil and you can drive a peg easily up untill about 250mm in the ground...

Lol no dnt worry il have the dodgy wal down b4 it can set

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Thanks for that fnt, im the sort of guy that if there is one trowel mark on a 2metre wide wall I'll redo the hole wall to get that one mark rite lol

lol, no no. not a bricklayer. Have done small brick jobs and just wana further my knowledge and skill whilst at the same time seeing to my needs. not gna use the bricky thingy, havent managed to get one myself yet.

thanks guys, so double skin thermalite wall with either the brick reinforcing product u showed me shy or a couple of piers on the 3 metre runs of wall. btw thanks atoz for your help and info regarding the cavitys, its interesting to know that really cavities are not better than a double...

I gues I cud jst double skin it with no cavity but I want it to be warm and built properly upto regulations. Its going to be like a practice run for the extension I want to build but I also need space for storage aswell as somewhere for the odd guest to stay over for a few days. Thank u very...

sorry i meant to ask what sorrt of expanded metal shud i use. something lik this? http://www.screwfix.com/prods/69577/Building/Builders-Metalwork/Brick-Reinforcing-Coil-112mm-x-20m or a piece of metal strip tying in the two skin in between the wallties?

The roof will be a flat roof still deciding on the size of the timber and what the best materials for price wud be.any ideas? Was thinking mdf with felt

Thanks alot so 3.5n blocks and what type of wall plates do I use? Do u have any links as I'm not sure what type ur referring to. Walls gna be rendered with sand and cement Thank u very much for the help

So would it be ok to build a 2.35 metre high by 3 metre wide by 2 metre long garage with two skins, the external skin being 7n block and internal being thermalite with a 100mm cavity with wall ties every 300mm? With 4 courses of solid class b engineering brick below the ground and a 400mm...

LOL thanks for the replies, I ask bcos I'm going to build a garage and were going to build it single skin, however I was told u can't if the runs r longer than 1.8 metres in which case u have to use piers. So I decided I would double skin it and build it to house specs in terms of insulation...

Hi I wanted to know how a double skin block garage with a cavity is stronger then a single skin block wall of the same dimensions which lets say are 3 metres high 5 metres wide and 4 metres long. As realistically, the skins arnt actually touching nor are they secured together apart from with...

thanks for the replies The walls are going to be higher than 1.8 metres, do you suggest I double skin it with an insulated cavity tied in by wall ties and with the outer blocks being dense 7n concrete and the inner being thermalite blocks? or can I thermalite the two skins? I have changed...

its ok I understand that there r ppl out there just looking to make trouble Thanks for all the replies, it is very much apreciated

Loool no not weed but Im going2use half of it as a home gym and dnt wana freeze lol but I'm just going to put battons then insulate and plasterboard n skim Is wat I've said I'm going to do ok?

hi guys im going to be building a small garden shed and wanted to know first of all if it was ok to use breeze blocks as it is going to be only single skin. Secondly if I have two course of class b solid engineering brick below the ground is that also ok with a dpc around these two layers...

woow! guys calm down! I am not trying to cause problems for my neighbour and builder, its just i read on this site that wood shouldnt be used and the beam should be jacked up with two acrows. If I was certain they were doing it wrong then I wouldnt be posting on here would i!? anyway...

hi eveyone thanks for the replies I can confirm the wodden wedges are being used permanently as they have now finished work on that part of the beam and after the wedges were put in he started filling it with mortar. I dont wana cause problems and am in no way a builder but sometimes...

Hi guys a neighbour of mine is having an extension built and I have been watching the builders randomly for a while. I especially became interested when it came time to put in the rsj, which seems rather over sized. The first thing I felt they did wrong was once they knocked out the window...