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9 out of 10 of the new builds/ extensions we do up here in Scotland are timber frame. very rarely do we build traditional.

A wooden frame building being built today in the UK :eek::eek::eek:

That looks good

Your house looks great

Hello I have a job coming up where the customer had an old fireplace in the middle of a room open on 2 sides. This has since been studded and sheeted on one side leaving the other side open. The idea is to install a log burner in heating up the room with the fire place still open to. Now...

More to the point.... where did you get that ruler

Will take some mortar to repoint Those joints

Morning guys Starting a job Monday building a retaining wall along the back of a garden. The wall is approx 20m long then returns for 5m and is 1.2m high. The original Plan was to build it 18” at the bottom for a course then step in into 14” and finish with 9” on the top. wall is being...

If you do decide to render just go for the full wall rather than a patch in the middle.

Wee tip always do the cavity fill first (y)

Tidy job

Same bother with the last one i did 5 different sizes of stone I’m sure it was a stone market pack but aye the joints were a bit all over the place

Don’t think you’ve had it all taken down either. One of those is from your post about a month back. no point coming asking for advice then not listening to it :eek: Get it doon!!!!

If yer not too fussed about cold bridging line it with DPM and Fill it with concrete

Thanks aye going to look at working out the total going and build it with A mixture brick and block seems to me to be the most practical option now I’ve asked about. I’ll have to get the gas pipe shifted before We start digging anything

Cheers Charlie I did read the drawing it is the person wanting the job done was asking me if I could do it with the shuttering I think the idea being to save some cash. I know what you mean about it being easier with the pre cast steps. if you were to do it like that do you mean you would...

Cheers woody Do you think shuttering and pouring concrete steps after the 2 sides are up to height would be ok? And would you dig the full 1800 of the new stairway right out?

Hey guys got a job on just now which is requiring approx 15 new steps up to a new front door. There is a landing at both top and bottom. I’ve been asked if I can now shutter the steps and landings and cast them in situ whilst the strip foundation for a retaining wall is being poured. Just...

I can with confidence say that you can’t go far wrong with the Titan sds breaker from Screwfix. Been using it now for well over a year and for the money I doubt you will get a better breaker. two thumbs up (y)(y)