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This can be the effect of removing carpets and putting in hard floors. With laminate it would usually be floating on some type of underlay that should help. Have you been in there to see exactly what they have done ? They could have tiled onto floorboards. They may also have changed the wall...

I had some success in the bathroom where I found sitting in the bath right next to the solid 9 inch wall was a bit unsettling ! I stripped the wall back to brick and created a 50mm thick independent wall fixed at the floor, ceiling and end walls, separated from the party wall by an inch air...

How much height have to before you get to ground level ? If a few courses, build up with thicker mortar beds / bricks on their side etc. Or cut up some 50mm paving slabs and use those ? Or slate, or quarry tiles, etc.

Rules are: no more than 1/3 depth of wall vertically no more than 1/6 depth of wall horizontally Must not compromise structural stability. With a cavity wall it is for a single leaf. For a 9" brick party wall, I've never been sure if it means the whole wall or your half of the party...

Seems like they could just about have one brick high trough, or put in a cavity tray draining to the outside. Also, have they got 150mm from ground to DPC ? Simon.

The cavity should extend below the DPC level as has been explained previously. If the cavity is bridged right across at DPC level, this is wrong, and it seems strange the builder would do this. However, is should be easy enough to cut this away inside the cavity before the insulation goes in...

Yeah and put some little alcoves in with a little light at the top to highlight your shampoo bottles.

Sounds like whatever it is, it may be a little dusty or sandy. Does it seem stronger once you to get to aggregate ? Screed or whatever should be primed with 4:1 SBR to water to stablize before tiling, and that would solve any problems with tile adhesive. Simon.

Excellent, that makes you an "engineer" :-)

They are not very good for small amounts, as most of it is coating the inside of the mixer and paddles. Worse if the mixer is old and a bit battered / caked up. Builders bucket probably just about OK. For smaller amounts, a spade is how you mix it !

If you persevere you will get some very good advice on here. But expect the same leg pulling you would get as an apprentice on site. When I first did some holiday work on a site driving timber to 2nd fit houses, the gaffer spouted out a huge list of timber sizes and quantities and I thought I...

I don't like sleeping downstairs personally - you feel more vulnerable. I stayed in an upside down B&Q which offered fantastic views, but the front entrance was on the upper floor as the house was built into a hill, which avoided the shopping upstairs issue.

New build is an opportunity to do away with pipes going through walls and running outside to a gully where they can freeze, etc. I have a 4" drainage pipe coming up under my sink. It takes a bit of space in the cupboard, but then offers total flexibility for connecting things up (including a...

Its just before the section which tells you where to go and get a "long weight" :lol:

In some cases chemical fixings are needed to cope with the new building materials that have also just be invented. When fixing some things into cheese blocks (sorry, aircrete), you need chemicals that can get a good hold in cheese. Simon.

Could be a bungalow and a large dormer could block light from certain angles up near the house.

If you built up the ground level, how long would you have to wait before this became the new official ground level ?

Also, the holes need to be really clean for resin, else you can bond onto dust. Simon.

People certainly tend to forget about the thickness of the walls. This will get worse as insulation thicknesses are increased. Its partly the fault of the generally small houses in this country. Thus the American visitor who announces that your living room is the size of their "closet" ...

To add something else, I was told once upon a time to lay an UNEVEN bed under the DPC so that gravity will lock the wall above in place and it cannot slide. It certainly makes sense. If you do that, you have to put mortar below and above obviously. The DPC is textured plastic for a key, whilst...