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Oneday when I have enough cash I intend to replace our windows with cottage style casements, but for the moment we need to keep the existing (homemade dg in 80's in Think) ones. They need a good strip down (in some places the paint has peeled of leaving clean wood) so I was intending to heat...

Fair enough, I have heard people singing the praises of lime, but I was unaware it could work effectively as an internal render for controlling damp. I understand about it allowing moisture to move through it and breathe but this surely works on a humidity/saturation gradient as moisture...

Thanks for the help. Due to Aethetics and trying to get max internal space the wall are only single skin. So if i have any chance of stopping penetrating damp it is by tanking the inside with render:hydradry:render. Unless there is another method (except drylining - hate the stuff) this is...

That's a great resource for when it comes to repointing, but I still don't know If my origional idea of building the wall with cement (considering it'll be rendered on the inside) then pointing with lime is ok. The reason for this choice is that its easier and quicker. Any problems with...

Hi there, I'm going to be building the dwarf wall on my porch out of the local soft limestone. I know that when it comes to repointing this should be done with Lime mortar, and I will indeed be pointing my porch with it. But I was intending to lay the stone with a cement mortar as I assumed...

Excellent! Lol. Right then, sticks and bamboo it is! Thanks y'all (don't know why I said that in a texas way, feel a bit of a twazzock now)

got a link for it? Sounds cool!

go as big as your home will architecturally and physically allow. What do you mean 'Architecturally allow'? Is it a structure issue or just finding the right size visually (some sort of aesthetic constant?) the roof pitch may be the main restriction as to how far out you can go, how...

Sounds a bit of an odd question this, but we intend to build a sunroom onto the end of our property, to be used all year round as a general room, sofa, table sort of thing, but we're having trouble deciding on the size it should be. Are there any guidlines, hints or tricks? Any...

Excellent advice on both accounts, Thanks, one further but basic thing, I forgot to ask about timber. Considering it will be painted (and therefore presumeably waterproof) what sort of timber should I use, is jewson basic white or red pine ok, or should I be spending more and on what wood...

Luckily I do have all the moentioned tools, so will rebate all post etc for glazing and have worked out how i can make a cill (just thought it may be easier to buy one!) Excellent link for the various joints, thanks, but I'm still not sure what joints should be used where. I was thinking...

Hi there I'm soon going to start on the carpentry stage of my porch (1.8mx1m, twin pitched clay tile roof on wooden frame and glazing on .8m high sandstone dwarf wall). What I need to know is how most people construct the frame, do they just butt and screw all joints or do they do more...

I found a website with different densities on it and it says concrete made with gravel is 2400 kg/cu.m (which is pretty much the same as what you said. It also say portland cement is 1506kg/cu.m, it does not however give the density of ballast. so I still don't know if the mix ratio's are...

hi there, When pouring my footings I ran out 2/3 of the way through. Something was up with my calcultations. Footings 600x 200x3500 (3.5x0.6x0.2) which I worked out was 0.42 m3 I think my mistake came when I assumed a cubic metere bag was just that and thatit weighed a tonne. (I...

Poyfect! Am of to inlaws this weekend and can cast slab on monday. thanks Nose-all

Cool, so I can do it tommorow. How many days to leave then before casting the slab?

Mmmmmm (in Marge Simpson trademark way) ;-)

I poured my footings on tuesday and wondered when it would be strog/safe enough to lay the two courses of blocks to bring it up to slab height? (dwarf wll porch will be 1.8m x 1m)