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Looking at the picture the garage would be in the shadow of the fence. So you would not be cutting out his light. Frank

Kitchens are deeply personal, prices range from £4K to £40K. The fittings are down to you to choose and then you expect a builder to go scurrying about to get the best price on a "Acme double oven with turbo super charger in red". It is imperative that the builders areas are well and truly...

I can't see your picture. Frank

It would seem that the upstairs joists are sitting on some sort of lintel within that white box. If the lintel is up to it, its perfectly safe. The problem as you state it, is the upstairs single skin wall sitting on the old wall. It is likely to be blown/sucked out of true by wind pressure...

Depends on the brick type, "red rubbers" from S. Hampshire soak up water at an alarming rate. I used to flood the reclaimed bricks with a hose, then start using the top ones after 5 minutes. Frank

I have found some thing similar. The bottom outlet goes into a trap (U bend). The top one should be sealed with a plug and is used to rod out the main run the other side of the trap. So find a plug and use a wet and dry vacuum cleaner get the gravel out of the Trap. Frankl

I would not use a cutting disc, the whole house will be covered in dust and I am not sure that the discs will cut wood, they will burn though. Frank

Premix the plasticiser with water in 5l plastic bottles (3% = 150* ml/5l yours may be different). Get hold of some plastic container, a dumpy plastic jug is OK. Decant a bag of sand into (onto) somewhere , count how many containersful you have used. Clean out container and gauge out a suitable...

If your conservatory is butting up against a flat external wall. There should be a vertical DPC in its outside skin, so the old outside wall which is now inside is isolated from any damp. Just make sure they do it, its a dusty job as the wall is cut with a disc cutter. Frank

I've done two perfectly. See the other thread for method. Frank

What I recomend is a special fastening that used to be available from Screwfix, but I can't find them now. Its an updated toggle bolt type. I was using toggle bolts but once inserted, you can have a problem putting the screw in and the "works" drop inside the cavity (Ah, well another quid gone...

I have done two, gently mark out for the trap (use a soft pencil). By using a stud locator, find out where the joists are, or failing that tapping the ceiling should give you a clue. Now centrally within you initial markings, make a large hole with a hand saw. Now you can probe about and find...

If they are the bits you are referring to, they are to support the roof level gable end which overhangs the walls. Its a big job to replace them with corbled out brickwork and I am not sure that it would work down the length of the roof, i.e. you could support the front of the gable, but not...

Correction, In my satellite dish tale , I got the base dimensions wrong, the foundations were 8m X 8m X8m, so 512 Cu m not 8 m. Frank

Right Tomfe, but the quarry only have to check ONCE, how much 5 Cu. m. weighs, then load vehicles in proportion. Seems its too technical/hard work :-( Also as you say, the water they load costs ya. Frank

Goal posts will work if the internal pads and external pads exceed the area of the foundations holding up the centre "pillar" in the house. This is because I rather presume that you cannot put your pillars in the centre of the internal pad . Frank

This is a typical building suppliers lack of user friendlyness. No one uses building matrial by weight, unless you are casting a counterweight, every one uses material to make stuff of a certain size, so they need a certain volume. In your case you need 75 X .15 Cu m ~ 11.25 Cu m. So now it...

Warm damp air working its way through your ceiling and condensing under the roof and running down the rafters. Frank

So this white powder is stuck on the underside of the boards. I think I have seen this on wood that has been damp, even though its now dry. Could this be the case, washing the floor boards? Its not wood worm is it? Frank

I am not sure it of any use to you, but :- I have seen very large satellite dishes (50' diameter) mounted on a large steel tube with an external flange. The flange was bolted to the 8 Cu m foundation block by having a lot of studs sticking upwards as part of the foundation steel work, nuts were...