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ta. It'll be adequately propped by virtue of the fact I'm hacking the trenches out of what I've been told is various grades of sand and sandstone - bit of a bitch to get through with a spade and wheelbarrow but the upside is the trench sides can be "sliced" to near vertical and to mm accuracy...

:lol: Exactly what I'm planning (excuse the pun) to do with mine. If I hadn't decided to modify the extension and re-do the drawings, we probably wouldn't have realised that the roof wouldn't fit on the architects version. Still, only cost a couple of £k for a few sheets of A0 paper...

Is it worth the money to use Corriform, or will the BCO be happy if you shove whatever you have to hand in for shuttering a ring beam? I've got half a dozen sheets of very thick conservatory roofing plastic (polycarbonate rather than the polypropylene of Corriform) and was thinking I could just...

Just bringing this back up to say thanks to Shytalks for the info - just looking back over my threads for something else and realised I'd forgotten to do so - How rude of me!!

I'm presuming you don't mean the small round nuts that come off the tree?! :lol:

LOL suppose I was a bit lacking on the details, wasn't I :D Thanks for the link trazor, will have a trundle over there. The stone I was thinking of I can't for the life of me remember the name of, but it's grey in colour and contains lots of fossils - very common, Really can't believe I've...

How exactly would you go about estimating how much rough stone you'd need to build a wall of x dimensions? Place I've just phoned sell it by the ton, but they didn't have any advice for how to estimate it either...

I've got the piling team starting Monday - all is pretty much ready for them but just wondering what is the "professional" method of marking out where the piles go? I've put the line markers in place and strung everything up, At the moment I've just stuck a tent peg in the centre point of where...

interesting - and has made me feel slightly better, ta :) TBH if I'd been told £1300 up front, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid, I just don't like surprises, and the sudden hike was certainly a surprise. Unfortunately I'm having to do a lot of reworking as there are a few things that neither...

it was supposed to be "around £600", ended up being £1300. He did the beam and pile loads + the roof loads (and put steel in the roof, which I'd specifically requested not be put in) I did manage to get bending calcs done eventually as well though :roll: only took a couple of months for...

That's the stuff :D Even better, I don't have to go asking for "plastic stuff" on the phone now which will hopefully see me looking less of a plank. That was the reasoning behind trying to get the extra bit of piling done now - they've agreed a good price, but obviously the less I can add the...

LOL no not one of yours. definitely not strip footings - the large quantity of 8m deep pilings that are being driven in rule that out I think! Thanks for the info - I'm intending to shutter all round with that corrugated plastic stuff (LOL technical me, eh?) so I can leave it in situ and put...

According to a (very, very) old copy of the building regs, the reinforced ground beam needs to be only as wide and deep as the width of the wall going on it - the wall is 300mm but before I start digging I was wondering if anyone could confirm this? The S.E. notes are hand written and I can't...

ahhh - misinformation aplenty seems to be flowing my way. No mention of butterfly, just the word "ties". Both that and not tieing in the blocks came from a builder quoting for the work - obviously he is now off the list :lol:

:D Many thanks

The vent in the upstairs wall is probably a seperate chimney - are there 2 pots on top? Probably find the bedroom had it's own fireplace which has been blocked up and it is the chimney for that fire that is being vented. We had exactly the same thing, only are having the chimney capped so...

I've decided that I'm going to try and project manage and do a great deal of my extension myself to keep costs to a minimum, with labourers for the bits I can't do. So expect a great deal of stupid questions - here are just my first few... Bricks and blocks - The lowest 14 courses are in...

I need to build an odd shaped retaining wall with hard standing atop, as a bank is collapsing along our boundary. My question is mostly with regards to the geogrid requirements and suppliers of pre-cast blocks. My questions are based on reading the Anchor Bayfield installation notes. The wall...

well yes it is just one part of the UK, that is very true. Not just one persons opinion, though, I have had a lot of feedback from a lot of local developers who have all been saying exactly the same thing. (one of whom originally pointed me here suggesting I ask) and it's not just the building...

Many thanks, I'll do that! Do you include yourself in that sweeping generalisation? no, but I believe it's reasonably fair as far as generalisations go. Last year on the renovation stage of this project I lost more than 25 days sat waiting for people to turn up to arranged appointments and...