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Hi guys, Thanks for your time. Currently having a kitchen extension built 6m x 4m. Builder just recently poured the concrete slab. Before he did building control passed the insulation etc and away they went. As far as I was aware the usual process is 4" concrete with steel followed by 2"...

...for some advice - we employed a groundworks company to take up our existing shed base 10x12 and lay a new base 17x13 150mm depth for a concrete garage installation. On trying to break up the concrete shed base the contractor said it was proving to difficult so he would use it as the aggregate...

Hi All, The mother in law has recently purchased a mobility scooter and has asked if I could build a concrete ramp up to the level of the PVC door threshold. This is my first concreting project and just had a couple of questions (I'll be using Blue Circle High Strength Concrete as this is what...

I've got a remnant of some concrete structure in my garden - the vertical slab in the foreground (not the concrete gravel boards behind). How can I remove this? Would a club hammer and chisel be enough? Sledge hammer? Or am I best off renting a power tool of some kind? Cheers, Nick

Hi I wondered if somebody could help me I need to concrete my back yard it is 440cm in length 295 width and it slopes down to 25cm at the bottom my question is how thick should the concrete be by the back door and how much sand cement etc would I need Cheers Kev

which is the best method for breaking up chunks of concrete round fence posts and old concrete paths? would an SDS drill be any good or would i need to hire a kango?

I layed some concrete(7' x 4' x 4") outside my garage two days ago, when will it be ok to take the shuttering way? Does it have to be fully hardened? Cheers.

...We've excavated 500mm wide and 1.3m deep and the BI is happy with that. It's a strip foundation and we now need to fill it with concrete 600mm deep. The drawings state the concrete should be "sulphate resisting unless this is proved to be unnecessary". Is this a common requirement...

My concrete drive has a section approx 3m square which has cracked and sunk with a hole appearing where a bit has broken off, looking into the hole it appears there is a cavity underneath the area which is all cracked the rest of the drive way is fine. Could this be caused by subsidence? my idea...

Hi all, have a timber floor which is rotten, laid on a concrete sub base which appears to be solid, they have laid 3"x 2" timbers flat with chipboard on top and then tiled. Want to replace wooden floor with extra DPM, insulation and a screed over the top. I know that the 2" insulation should be...

...on an extension i am building. My next step is to dig out for the floor and then install the hardcore sand DPC, insulation and finally concrete. the problem is access is difficult to the back of my house where the extension is. I wanted to pour the concrete (ready mixed) into barrows and...

If I wanted to insert a metal rod (12mm diameter) into some concrete, what would be the best way? Drill the hole, fill with some kind of sealant, stick rod in? Or drill the hole, just insert the rod? It is in a foundation, which is going to have concrete poured on top between two skins...

After taking a tile floor up in a ground floor bedroom I found that the concrete base was only 25mm thick on a sand bed and had no dpm. To reinstate the floor to receive a tile finish do I lay another traditional concrete mix down onto dpm or is a 50mm dry screed onto sand ok?

We've just paid quite a lot of money to have a small area re-concreted over for our dogs to run in. It was already old cracked concrete which was dug up and removed leaving mainly soil underneath However now the concrete is dry, there are lots of small holes in it (possibly popped bubble...

Hi, Possibly a silly question... I've a roughly 18" concrete cube holding a metpost socket... unfortunately we live next to a playground where kids often send their footballs over our fence. One kiddie retrieving a football ran over the setting concrete about 3-3.5 hours after pouring it...

Hi, i want to create some beds for bushes, shrubs and veg around the edge of my concrete yard. Ive been advised to dig through the concrete to the soil so the plants will be deep enough for roots of high bushes. Im wondering what is the best way to cut the concrete? ive seen a cheap angle...

do polished concrete floors require much maintenance after installation?

Can anyone recommend the ratios that i would need to use in order to achieve a strong concrete mix? In not sure of the specific strength required but I will be using the concrete to fit one of these if helps. Id need it to be pretty strong and not prone to cracking around the edges where it...

Have checked all of the building posts but can't see the answer to this. I have a sectional concrete garage sited onto a concrete slab base, I want to extend the garage by about 2 metres to the width and 1 metre to the length. How can I ensure that the new additional concrete base attaches...

I've removed a crumbling strip of concrete approx 40mm wide between a slab and the garage wall, as I thought sealing this would stop the garage getting damp. Under the 1cm of concrete is empty space and soil. Would refilling with concrete be likely to stop damp ingress or would filling with...