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Hello (again) - This is a question about drainage. This is the front view of my semi detached. Total surface area of the tiled roof (on this side.of the house) is approx 50m2 There is a single drainpipe (white middle.of picture) that terminates in the ground. As you can imagine the ground...

Hello, I know there have been a few threads on loft boarding, but I couldn't find much in terms of diagrams or anything specific to my loft so I thought Id ask. The intention is to board part of the loft for storage, without loading the existing ceiling joists too much. Aiming for 300mm of...

Hello Thought I would show what I did incase it helps anyone in the future. Replacing the water pipe was the goal,. 1. Dug out and exposed the old pipe 2. Cut out the broken bricks, (grinder and SDS) 3. Removed old pipe, put some Flexi duct in from eBay, put the mdpe in, bricked up the hole 4...

Hello Thought I would show what I did incase it helps anyone in the future, although the post title is a bit vague. Replacing the water pipe was the goal,. 1. Dug out and exposed the old pipe 2. Cut out the broken bricks, (grinder and SDS) 3. Removed old pipe, put some Flexi duct in from eBay...

I thought it would be okay but wanted to clarify, Thank you for the quick response

Hello, My gas supply has been moved and whilst the hole is dug I'm also going to swap the old steel water pipe to a new MDPE pipe, Id like to repair the brick work by "toothing in" the new bricks. Is it safe to remove the old damaged bricks without any additional support for the bricks above...

Hey Cdbe, Yea, as you suggest I'm going to follow the same path that the existing pipe is taking. I'll do my best to patch the wall up as well, May I ask why you would use sand rather than cement or concrete to fill the hole? I hadn't really thought of that, but it would make it easier to...

Okay, looks like Armaflex is the thing, I'll try to put some pictures up when I'm finished, Thanks for the tips

Thanks for the advice Hugh I actually had an insuduct system and sent it back, the footing projects significantly beyond the outer skin and the installation of it would have been a bit messy. Cdbe Internally I have what appears to be a solid concrete floor. (1950s ISH house I think). Ducting...

Hello The internal stop cock in my house is seized, it's connected (internally) to the other end of the rusty steel pipe in the picture, I decided to replace it and I had a couple of questions before I started. Q1 -what is the appropriate way to install the replacement mdpe pipe? should It...

Thank you so much for that explanation, could you kindly provide a glossary for this part though, :giggle: I understood none of it! "it went off bond because they forgot to cast an eye down to the perps below, and they thought "f*** it, it's not my house" and lashed a load of half bats in with...

Hello, Hello, I was clearing out my front garden earlier and I noticed these cracks in the mortar and also 1 crack through the centre of a brick (see blue image, crack is highlighted between parallel orange lines) - Should these cracks be of any alarm, in particular the cracked / snapped...

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Hi, I've got this root from a rose/bramble bush growing into the foundations of this house, its cracked the mortar and appears to have cracked a brick in half (this is visible in the right hand side of the photo. Cut it out asap I assume?> thanks Will