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Venting has already been done, a couple of sleeve vents were put in place when the garage opening was bricked up with a window as per the advice of the BCO I need to make up approx 700mm in height to get to the finished floor level From what I've gathered, if i went down the solid floor route...

That was a consideration, however it will cost significantly more if I went down this route. So I need to go down the suspended floor route. :( As mentioned earlier, is it acceptable to drill above or below the dpc line? Could i use resin fixings rather than rawlbolts, would this make a...

Apologies, yes you are correct, but is it acceptable if i drill just above or below into the brick? So effectively the dpc mortar line will be in-between. I'm sure i also read somewhere if drilling it should be below the dpc rather than above?

I'll be constructing a suspended timber floor so i can raise the garage floor to bring it inline to the rest of the house I'll be fixing the timber wall plate to the wall so i can hang the joist hangers, however where the wall plate is to be positioned this is directly where the dpc level is :(...

During the excavations of the lintel for the garage window some of the block paving and bedding collapsed so i need to put down a fresh bed of sand and relay the paving. Its approx 8ft wide by 2ft, the plan in the future is to renew the driveway In the interim could I use a dry mix of building...

I've placed an order for the LBC Tudors. I would have regretted it if I went for the Tradesman and they didn't look as good as the originals

I've been told the tradesman tudor are a better/stronger brick and frost resistant than the lbc tudor originals Which ones do you think I should go for? Given that there is no guarantee either will blend in well!

Need to purchase bricks to match existing brickwork, however there are two variants to my knowledge that I've found from looking online Unsure which ones are on my property The two I've found are Tradesman Tudor and LBC Tudor. There is a significant difference in price between the two, why is...

I'll be bricking up the garage door and having a upvc window installed. The bricklayer has offered to install the window The work is being done under building regs, will this be acceptable to them? or does the window need to be installed by an accredited Fensa installer?

Where the lintels will be placed, they will directly hit the downpipe One option could be to cut the clay pipe lower into the ground which will then give me the access/space I require Can this be directly connected to the clay pipe...

Its half a bag of Quinn 25kg cement mixed with the 4 bags of ballast, water added into a mixer

In the process of carrying out a garage conversion. Which involves fitting two lintels across the opening span of the garage. However the rainwater downpipe is in the way where the lintels will be installed. the downpipe discharges into a clay pipe. Out of interest where does the rainwater...

Yep that's correct the 25kg ballast bags I'm referring to mixed with half a bag of concrete Wanted to know what strength will that achieve? i.e c20 c25 etc

4 bags of ballast and half a bag of concrete, out of interest what strength would this achieve?

With respect to what? So the complete procedure is correct? My concern primarily was regarding the bricks above not being level, old mortar not being removed and the excessive packing of mortar, I dont recall any slate or steel being used for packing And the cracking/creaking of god knows what...

We've just had a 3500mm rsj fitted, but concerned as to whether it has been correctly due to the following observations When the rsj was put in place, the underside brickwork still had the old mortar in place, the builders didn't remove the old mortar. The underside brickwork was not level end...

Great Ian, many thanks for clarifying, I'll PM some pics over shortly if it helps, re the f+e tank can i double check when i remove that i do not need to make any connections, i just cap that side off?

Cheers Ian can you shed some light on the points I raised in a few posts earlier before it all went off on a tangent Rising main being the feed to the water tank, join the top pipe to the bottom feed pipe of the water tank? Even though I'll be capping it off and tapping the hot from the...