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Didnt see you were in Essex, any where near Hainault, great brick place up there, E.T.Clay on Flower road, if they cant get your specials, nobody can. Also, have you got a base plan to work to, building vickys is not easy and in my expeprience working off the cill does not work.

You can get specials that are the same as the bricks you build it with, hard to find and very expensive, Squints at £2.50 and dog legs (for internals) £5.00 last time I did one. Getting your bricks cut and stuck cost approx £5.00 a brick, you supply the bricks, get a few over for breakages...

Bits and bobs of my work

Try and find an old, small independant joinery shop local to you, thats been there for eons, the bloke you see is the third gen of the family working there and everyone in the village knows them. Then if you feel comfortable with them use 'em! Good luck! (It can be a mine field, dont just use...

Wow, that post about Privett Windows came across a bit like a sales pitch, didnt it? Or is it just me...

Footings approx 200 a linear meter @ 1 metre deep. (that should include everything, removal of spoil, concrete ect.) Bricks @ approx 350-500 a thou labour only (as said depending on area.) You might find our eastern european cousin would do it cheaper than that... what you'll get at the...

Have a go yourself, its not that difficult if you go for a bucket handle finish. BUT if its an old house and the bricks were laid in lime try to avoid cement based mortars, google 'lime mortar' plenty of suppiers. We used to be taught 3:1 sand and cement, I think thats a little over the top...

I'll try and help here rather than all your other posts.. Put the bottom bead in its shuffle groove, pull tight outwards so fully seated, put in packers, then glass, top bead if cut to the full width, then sides. Go inside and glently push glass towards the beads, seating them all fully, then...

If its new then the texture should go outside so the coated low E plain glass is the right way round. Older, non low E type glass units were installed with the texture inside.

I've found your post later on about the beads being external, did you remove any wedge gasket from inside?

If your having trouble I'd go and get another hammer, pref a white rubber one, that way you may save breaking the glass if you miss the bead.

Is it single leg bead or shuffle bead? Single (as the name implies) has one bit of plastic that needs to fit in a groove, the shuffle has an 'L' shape that needs to fit between two points, ans is much harder to get in.

To sponge or not comes down to two things, time and money.. If somebody was paying me a day rate of 200 a day I'd float to a polish! On the other hand if somebody was taking the pi55 I would get it flat enough as I laid it on and then sponge it, job done and I'm home for tea.

Why not do 50mm between and 25mm under? Or use the super quilt under.

Milk and cows dung.. all old methods.. I've used a wash made up with black mortar dye, try a little bit first and let it dry, change the quantities of water/dye the 'age' away.

Special order, think Jewsons can get it, they had some in stock in Vauxhall some time ago when I needed it.