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  1. kazuya

    Landscaper Costs?

    see its very difficult to say without seeing the job and asking how they are going to be doing the work. as an example a woman asked for a price to slab the area where her front lawn was, I gave her a quote which included the slabs and all other materials, skips to get rid of the grass and soil...
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    hole in the "wall" idea! - fixing a splashback on a bowed wall

    no the ideas not nuts, it would work, but once you cut the square of plasterboard away fix some batons to the wall so you have more area to fix the splash back rather than just on the edges.
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    Hang up your trowels brickies, the machines are coming

    they used acid to clean the jumpers? :rolleyes:
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    Hang up your trowels brickies, the machines are coming

    is there also a brick acid machine for cleaning the faces up after?
  5. kazuya

    Builder due diligence - site visit

    you don't need to do any of that just see if if theyre on checkatrade.com haha :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
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    Huge cracks after chimney support - normal?

    an inch? how did that happen? it shouldn't have dropped at all it should have been packed tight above the beam with slate and sand an cement did he forget that bit?
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    What do upstairs walls sit on?

    its not unusual to find a block wall built off a wooden floor
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    Drilling into a concrete floor to fit a safe

    yep I do and I don't think they'd bother looking because I've another one that's easier to find, bolted to the floor and wall with **** all in it just papers
  9. kazuya

    Stud wall or Brick wall?

    stud might be a little bit cheaper but it would be blocks every time for me, but then I'm bias coz I'm a brickie :)
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    How do they do it? Why doesn't the wall suffer from weakness?

    they don't come down even a small amount because the gap above the lintel and below the bricks is packed tight using slate and sand and cement, before the acrows are removed
  11. kazuya

    Concrete base - does this look right?

    I think it looks like a DIY bodge job
  12. kazuya

    Best way to block air vent?

    an alarm next to your boiler wont tell you if there's carbon monoxide fumes getting though the vent into your bedroom and yes they could divert the flue
  13. kazuya

    Asbestos?

    ask ya builder
  14. kazuya

    New damp proof, salts appearing

    oh right its on YouTube so must be true
  15. kazuya

    New damp proof, salts appearing

    well ill have to disagree with you there, done it lots of times including my own house 24 years ago without any problems at all as long as its done properly that is :)
  16. kazuya

    Roof Carpentry/Angle Advice

    get yourself one of these
  17. kazuya

    New damp proof, salts appearing

    did they paint the wall with at least 2 coats of bitumen or similar before they re-plastered, did they use plaster or did they use a sand and cement render?
  18. kazuya

    [Photo] 3 Years+ Sewage Smells in the house (man hole to fill)

    id be more worried about crap falling into the manhole while im digging it out put the bung up the pipe then fill over it with concrete, flaunch it so its smooth and blends in with the other flaunching, you don't want any ruff edges that might snag any waste and cause a blockage, then id bed a...
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    [Photo] 3 Years+ Sewage Smells in the house (man hole to fill)

    if that is the case then opening up the manhole and blocking off the redundant pipes should do the trick
  20. kazuya

    Using self levelling compound

    yes you can
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