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    Advice on planning and building regs for a barn in our garde

    Hello there, we have a registered smallholding in a very rural place in Herefordshire. The garden is 1 acre with a swimming pool and 2 small garden sheds on it at the mo, also the fields are 2.5 acres. I would like to build a barn-workshop to restore my tractors and land rovers in. At the...
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    Garden retaining wall+how deep do the foundations need to be

    Hello there, we recently had a large extention built on our cottage, which involved removing hundreds of tons of soil from behind the cottage for the extention because we are on a slope. We need to build a retaining wall to stop the soil falling down to the extention. I did the digging and have...
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    Self-Employed+how much should I charge

    Hi, I am self-employed and do work for 3 different people during the week. For 3 days i do skilled building work which involves lime plastering and other general building work at a large farmhouse. Curantly I am charging £8.50 per hour for this work. The other 2 days are spent on 2 farms doing...
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    thermolite blocks + Best finnish

    Hi, we are in the proces of having a large extension built (14x45 ft) to our cottage. The internal walls are thermolite blocks and the space is split into 2 big rooms. I plan to do all the internal work and wandered what was the best and cheepest finnish to use on these blocks-do I use...
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    Large extention+oak trusses

    Hi, we are in the process of building an extension to our cottage which is 1 and a half times the size of the origional house(Extention is 60x15 square ft). So far we have the walls up, windows in and most of the roof timbers up. We were hoping to have the roof done some 2 months back, but the...
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