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The mezz floor to carry the weight of the gym equipment. I am looking to have maybe half a dozen machines such as treadmill, crosstrainer, static bike, step, rowing machine. Not so worried to use weights but will probably have some free weights to use with a rebok step and mats. Average...

No probs. If I had read it earlier it might have saved you a bit of hard work. The smaller machines generally seem to rent out for about £150 a day and, with hard work, will crush up to 6-8 tonnes of concrete up to the size of a full UK kerb stone. Maybe useful to know for next time

I am starting to look at the possibility of creating a mezzanine floor level gym at the side of a swimming pool and was wondering if anyone knows what load limits etc I have to plan for and how that in turn relates to thickness of the concrete and rebar to put in the floor. Any ideas ?

Go to www.redrhinocrushers.com and look there. They have a hire locator in the menu. I haven't used one but I did get a demo and it was very impressive for the size of the machine

I am gathering information prior to building a swimming pool and wanted to know if anyone has any views with regard to insulating under the floor of the pool. The walls will be constructed using Quad-Lock which will give an R-value of up to 40 which is great but I will still loose heat...

Hmmm, sheet piles are not going to work for me either by the look of it. Too expensive to purchase at about 150 quid each and I want to hang on to them for too long to make rental worthwhile. Looks more and more like it will be a trench, footings and concrete block retaining wall with...

JohnD, thanks for taking the time to read the posts! What a shame you haven't got anything valuable to add. For your information, it is not for a bunker but for a swimming pool and the foundations for a pool enclosure which will be built to cover it attaching to the side of the house. As the...

Ahhh... bit of news, I have found that SGB have a distribution depot near where I need to do the work and they distribute sheet piles so.... How do I work out what type of sheet piles to use and how deep to drive them?

The whole excavation is 10 meters long, the wall of the house being about 7 meters of the side of this excavation so the whole of the house wall will be 'flying'. The whole excavation is 10 meters by 15 meters ( I am using rounded up measurements for illustration but they are near enough )...

Sheet piles would be great if I could get them installed as I guess that this is not something that I can do myself? This is to be done in France and I would want to buy the sheets as I can not be absolutely certain how long I would need them for. The next problem would be what depth do they...

The problem here is that I would therefore need to dig the 'retaining wall' to just over 2 1/2 meters in depth and go under the walls of the house which would be problematic in itself. One of the reasons why I was thinking of using contiguous piles is that it would allow for water seepage...

I need to excavate at the side of my house to a depth of about 2 metres. I want to do this to about 1 meter away from the walls of the existing building and will need to provide a retaining wall so as to prevent slippage of the end wall of the house (stone). My only option, as I see it, is...