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yeah that's about all I'd come up with :lol: I'm considering putting down a solid oak floor in the room so that would provide a nice easy laying platform.

as above, you need to step in whole brick depths. Bricky doing the wall at our place just made each step a multiple of 75mm (standard brick plus mortar). To ensure it works, start at the bottom, dig your footings for that bit, then step up the next footings whatever multiple of 75mm will...

Got a floor that is a: at the wrong level and b: not level. Oh and c: really needs a DPM of some sort. Original dims were taken at one end of the floor and it was presumed to be reasonably level (stupid mistake, I know) Now it turns out that it isn't - one end is 50mm below correct level...

'ere - you're not my bricky are you?! word for word that's exactly what he said when the pumping started :lol: (which incidentally is what triggered this post in the first place...

definitely a beer moment then (again :lol: ) oh - ironically, while digging out the oversite, we came across the founds of the original house... all 5 inches of soft holey stuff, I say stuff as I don't think it could really be classed as concrete. It's 1/2 inch below ground level.

LOL can't believe I didn't look on screwfix, I've practically lived in their the last few months :lol: Thanks chaps - yet again!

cheers chaps, it wasn't so much the strength of it I was concerned with (hell after 1 day setting I've been trying to clear some off the oversite and it's 100 times stronger than any hand mix I've used - plus the whole thing is ludicrously over-engineered to protect the S.E.'s PI!!!) It's purely...

aye, experienced the difference recently with the piles - some of which were chopped to height when green, some were left a bit too long and I had to reduce height a month or so later... :shock: Still a bit worried about the water, don't know why - probably because of the implications if...

where do I get some? None of the builders merchants have it, which might explain why the brickies haven't heard of it being used in a standard build and I've not seen it before! Seeing as the technical chaps at the block manufacturer recommended it a couple of courses below openings I...

Many thanks Woody, Re: " The people who say "don't use them" are the people who don't know how to use them." Funnily enough, that is almost word for word what the technical chap said as well, only he added something a little less forgiving at the end :D

As my house is rendered and rather exposed on a steep slope, to up the insulation factor and ease the build (no access, period! long walk with blocks) both the bricky and a supplier I use suggested doing both leaves of the cavity wall with thermalite (or equivelant), which the BCO has accepted...

BTW - as to setting like Bell metal "eventually"... it's now 5 hours since we finished, and it's already bloody hard - I know because I just fell over onto it :roll: (hint - don't check handywork in the pitch black)

Many thanks Noseall, I might just get some sleep now. :lol: Had horrific visions of trying to shift it all back out with a kango - having taken a strip of previously laid pump mix only measuring about 1cu m I was just about to throw the towel in. time for beer and bandages...

Had foundations concrete pumped today. As I didn't want to tackle this all by myself in a deep trench the builder who will be doing the blockwork said he'd come out with a labourer to help. Pump arrived, but the mix was so dry that even with the (large!) poker going full pelt it would hardly...

Just put in an en suite that measure 2.4m x 1.5m internally. A large shower unit goes across one end, the other end has a concealed cistern toilet and basin unit, the doorway is midway between the two end walls. It's considerably larger than some en suites I've seen but it's the smallest I'd...

I've found a bricky to put up the main shell of the extension - going through a shopping list and he's noted Toplite GTI over the Thermalite Shield I'd intended - they are marginally more expensive ( but only marginally) but both he and the supplier suggested them as I'm having a rendered...

Many thanks Norcon :) Must admit I've never used 6x9's - they sound heavy :lol:

oh well, guess I'll have to make the effort to do it properly then!

yeah must admit shuttering up the house footings last week was not exactly the most enjoyable experience, was just hoping someone would have a simple suggestion to reduce digging - as it's > 50% below ground level already I was hoping it wouldn't need too much support.

it would and it wouldn't.... yes it would get around the shuttering issue, but it would also mean a lot more soil, another skip (of which to get to I have to carry the soil up the slope in buckets, put it in a wheelbarrow, along the patio, up 3 steps across the drive onto the road, down a 1:3...