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Just looking on some advise on the best place to get bricks from for an extension that i'm building. I need aboout 500 stock facing bricks and then about 4500 others (Cheap ideally) Then need to be 73mm. Whats the going rate per 1000?

Building inspector came out and has advised the below. Only issue is that the soil pipe into the inspection chamber will be quite steap. We got lucky as rainwater and waste can be put into the sewer drain, and there is a exsisting pipe going to a garage in the back garden that we are able to...

Just looking for some advice, just started digging the foundations for a new extension and come across some drainage issues. I though that we had a direct access to the main sewer however it appears as though our pipe goes into neighbours garden before connecting into a man hole on their...

It's a planning issue, all houses on the road with a extension have to have a 2 meter step back at first floor level.

Well building regs passed today and BCO has said that the wall can be stud wall but will still need foundataions. A weekend of digging for me :cry:

I've got this also The other drawing just show the different views on the house. [/img]

Just looking at my plans for my extension and the architect had put a brick wall downstairs rather than a stud wall. Would I be able to change this with the building inspector or would it have to stay? Not sure what it's down in brick, most people have got their internal walls done using stud.

it's an inside wall, it forms the parity wall with the next doors house. Still think the caviety is the likely cause?

Well further to my previous post i'm now in my new home, that has a some damp issues. The survey has said it's rising damp and that it needs to be investigated. I've stripped the walls and exposed the plaster and the damp is clearly viasble as it's the salts coming through on the chimney...