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East Anglia - it does freeze in winter

Hi all, Just laid some ACO channel and a short concrete path in a difficult spot behind my garage. Because the concrete had "nowhere to go" I installed a 10mm foam expansion all the way around the edge. This isn't a massive area just 2.5m x 0.9m. Anyway, about the foam expansion gap, will...

Cheers, To the left of the photo, that is the cartlodge. There is a DPM under its base, which you can see poking up from the edge of the base. There is also a DPC along the top of the bricks, which the timber is resting on. Understood that it'd be a good idea to DPM the retaining wall to the...

Hi all, I have a cart lodge which is built on a concrete pad (which has a DPM underneath). On top of that is 6 courses of bricks, then a DPC, and then timber upwards from there. Behind the cartloddge there is a roughly 0.9M wide path which separates it from the shed base (to the right of the...

Thanks again for your time in responding. - On the vegetation, the picture makes it look more significant than it is. It's just annual weed growth, no big roots. I could strim it back to dust in half an hour but I've left it this year because the children have slow worms living in there...and...

Interestingly, this is the brick datasheet which says F2 for frost rating durability. Google reckons that's the best rating level..?

Hi, Thanks for your replies. The choice of brick is the same as the house, which is why they used it. I can see how frost has popped the textured faces off various bricks (but only the garden wall, not the house, which I thought was due to moisture), but I don't understand how the choice of...

Hi all Pictures attached of a retaining wall that has failed in my garden. I believe that lack of drainage has caused the failure. There is no drainage through the front of the wall or around the sides either. It seems to have failed above the first course of bricks, which themselves are held...

Hi, Just wondered on this. I've been doing DIY project for years, always mixing by hand either in a bucket or in the wheel barrow. I feel it's finally time to treat myself and fork out for a mixer, particularly since my next project is a other shed base (and a retaining wall to hold it up) to...

Thanks. Would you replace the whole roof or just the affected tiles & valley?

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Hi all, I've a small garden wall to build this summer. It's only to be 7 courses of brick high and barely 3m long. It'll retain some soil (with drainage installed behind leading around either end of it) but isn't structural for any weight on top. I've dug out my trench for the footing and I...

My roof has an issue with the tiles splintering every time there is a frost. Each spring I scoop the pieces of tile out of the gutters to stop them travelling into the drains. There are no leaks inside the building, but I am wondering how long left I've got. I did find some of the ridge tiles...

Hi all, So, my garage (left of the picture) has an issue with water soaking through the rear wall and looking on the floor inside after heavy rain. The garage is laid on a concrete pad, which has a DPM underneath. The side and rear walls are only 6 courses high (single wall, not cavity), and...

Hi all, I have a pretty large driveway that was covered in about two tonnes of loose gravel. Over the years it collected a huge amount of general filth so I decided to sweep away all the gravel and use it for backfill behind a garden wall elsewhere. Anyway, I was planning to buy clean fresh...

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Hi all, Whilst I do indulge in all sorts of DIY, messing with my oil burner is not really something I want to do out of choice. However, I have a Grant Vortex Boiler, with a Reillo RBL burner (& pump). I've actually got my boiler service paid for to happen in January, pre booked...

P.S, this is an example of the kind of thing I was going for ....

Hi all, Just needing a sanity check please that what I'm doing here doesn't contravene any electrical (or other) regs. I DIY'd our bathroom last year. The one thing I didn't do was find a space to fit a towel holder. However, the other day when I was doing something else in our airing...

15mm gap between brickwork of extension (right of image) and of old building (left of image). Been there 15year already and isn't causing an issue. It just bothers me aesthetically. Is it likely that this gap is necessary for ventilation of the cavity perhaps, or can I fill it? Would you go...