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I just want to know if I should have put a dpc at the bottom 150mm above the ground as you can see in the picture. I know there will be one going in on the top as that will be close to my floor level for the timber joists. Advice appreciated. Is more than 1 dpc ok as my builder has not done it.

The lenght of the brick is 215mm, so how would this work? Making the beds slimmer on the 3 courses were the vertical bricks will be going?

Hi we are currently having an extension done, the bricks we are using are 73mm, I intend to have above the windows on the lintels vertical bricks going across maybe at the bottom too, is it possible to use these 73mm bricks or do I need to choose a different size?

But why is he charging separately for the breeze blocks on the inside? £1.40 a block, surely this will add up very expensive as I think 1 block is approx 1 brick. I'm confused as I would've guessed that £650 would include the inside blocks

This is labour only. Hes charging to do the labour for building the walls at this price.

I have just been given a price from a brickie for my double storey side extension and single storey side extension. He said £650 per 1000 bricks (external) and £1.40 per block (internal). Seems quite expensive to me. Can someone advise if this is the going rate in the north east please?

Is there anyone you recommend I speak to? Also will getting a new non porrous driveway done reduce the high water table or not? As for the garden, if I put perforated drainage in leading water away from the house will this benefit?

Basically my house is higher than my garden by approx 1.5m The house has a basement of approx height 1.5m I have a sump pump fitted in the basement due to the house been on high water table area. I want to know if i put some sort of drainage under the driveway that connects to the main drains if...

Hi i have a basement in a property i have just purchased. On inspecting i noticed that i have a hole dug out in one of the areas of the basement and a pump installed in it. It was quite ful so i switched the pump on to expel the water from the hole. I noticed immediately that it was filling up...

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Would you day it would add more value to the house if i decided to sell it in the future?

Do you have experience in this, due to the existing side extension you think it will cause a problem with a side dormer?

This is the existing floorplan of first floor.

As you can see from the above pictures the front and rear of my house. I am planning on having my loft done through building regs and was wondering in any good ideas and how to keep my costs down. The small window at the front is my box bedroom which i will have to lose for my staircase...

Hi i just want to know if i can attach a water tank/cylinder to my baxi 105he combi boiler. The reason for this is because if someone downstairs uses the water then the water being used upstairs stops for quite a while. We live in a very large house and maybe this is one of the reasons for...

Thanks. The doubts that I was having were that because it was single brick and over 2.5 metre in height. The other thin was that the pillars either side of the door on the garden side didnt go all the way up. Also the beam that goes across is sitting on a single brick wall. Is the...

This picture is from the garden side of the garage. This is the corner, i dont understand why the bricks are different here. 2 pillars either side of the door Looks like wall ties Beam runing across As you can see there are 2...