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No, it is in our garden. Would also not be closer to our unclassified country lane than the house, would be more than 20 meters from the road and would be at the back of the house. We have no nabour boundaries either, closest is 60 meters away. I have scoured the net on this subject and most...

Hello there, we live in a very rural area and have a 1 acre garden and 3 acres of farmland with our cottage. I would like to build a large garage/workshop in our garden in the coming future to house my vintage tractor, 2 old land rovers and a workshop/garage. It would be L shaped and the size...

Nearly all the builders I work with use expanding foam to fill the gaps.

Hey, just noticed your first pic. Did the same guy lay the blocks and bricks as they are not level with each other??

Hello there, not sure if this is the right section to post on but here goes. We purchased our cottage with land in 2002 which has a spring water supply. At the time of purchase the chicken farm above us had a big pump in our tank in our field. Every morning their pump would drain the tank in 5...

Hello there, have posted on the building forum about our 105 ft soil retaining wall around our extention before. We live on a slope in a rural location and have built an extention to our cottage on the top side of the slope, which involved removing many hundreds of tonns of soil. We have just...

Back in 1997 we lived in a terrised cottage in a rural location- we had lived there for 25 years with no problems with the nabours. Our garden was 1 acre and had a bungalow at the bottom. the bungalow owners at the time had been there for 15 years and were very nice. At the end of 1997 new...

The blocks are 9 inch wide, the foundation has griddwork in it and iron bars to 1 block heigh-then when finished, full length bars are going in followed by concrete. All this is in our building regs plans.

Here are some pics of our retaining wall so far. It is 78 blocks per row and the wall is 105 ft long not 75 as I said before. Still 3 more layers to go then in goes the drainage pipe then 20mm shingle as stated by building regs.

Hello there, we are building a 75ft long x 4.5ft tall soil retaining wall around our extension. regarding drainage-on the first row we have left weep holes every 3ft and are also fitting a drainage pipe behind the wall-one with holes in it. I know that we need to put some kind of gravel ontop of...

Hello again, we recently had 15 bags of cement delivered with many other items-breeze blocks and the price has gone up yet again. Our latest bill is for 7.36 ex vat per bag of blue circle mastercrete in plast 25kg. Now we have used this cement but this price is just so wrong. What can we do...

Hey, I watched a new homes under the hammer today and the chap purchased a piece of land at the bottom of his garden some 8x2meters for 11000 pounds from an old lady.

Hello there, we are at this time in the process of building a soil retaining wall around our large house extention(60x16 ft-2 story extention). with the bad weather this has been put off untill this weekend. We live in a very rural location in Herefordshire and have trebled the size of our...

Hello there, the last poster mentioned buying a stihl hedge trimmer for your hedge. Stihl equipment is usually for trade use where a tool is required to be fit for very heavy use and they are very expencive. With your diy use I would reccomend something like the makita brand which is more...

Hello there, we have an account with Travis Perkins having purchased thousands of pounds worth of goods for our extention and think we have been overcharged on the latest bill. We went to our local branch and took 4x 25kg plastering sand=2.85 pounds per bag which is okay but also had 1x blue...