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Thanks :D The mini will be with me forever but the wife kept harping on about a 4x4, luckily my brother wanted to buy the BMW making it simple!

Hi there, here's how it looks at the moment. I clad the decking at the front and re-tiled the roof with Marley smooth moderns, new membrane etc. Not a huge amount of difference but my plans stalled a bit until I decided where to go next with it or whether I should move. Here's what I'm...

Gents, a quick question. My house is currently being re-roofed and the (scottish) build up is rafter, sarking boards, breathable membrane, counter battens, tile battens, concrete tiles. All was going well and the roof was stripped, new membrane put up and counter battens on. Then I...

Last Q... what kind of air gap can I get away with? Some places say 50mm but others say as little as 13mm as long as a breather membrane is used?

Here it is Doh, for some reason I was hoping the gaps in the sarking boards would be sufficient for ventilation.

Hi, it is like a loft conversion although the upstairs has been there since it was built. The house is like a wide bungalow with two small lofts at either side.

Hi all, At the moment my house is being re-roofed. The current build up is rafters, sarkin boards, felt, battens, concrete tiles. The new build up is rafters, sarkin boards, breather membrane, vert battens, horiz battens, concrete tiles. My question is, if I insulate the roof to suit...

Hi All, I'm building a garage that will be almost on the boundary line between my house and my neighbours. It will be stepped back 50mm from it. Due to a soil build up on their side (the house is built on a slope) one of my walls needs to be tanked etc. I know that under the party wall act...

Your brother was probably right to be honest haha! I think the trouble is property in this area is at a premium, I can afford to do a lot of work in stages but not the initial huge outlay that would be required to buy something like I'm creating. At the moment though it is starting to feel...

Change of plans. After an absolutely appalling attempt at fitting dry verge by a 'roofing company' I'm now left with 20+ knackered Marley type 51 tiles, not that easy to get hold of anymore. Never liked them anyway. Had another roofer round (seems highly regarded) and pretty much...

Mine is almost finished now, joiners are back tomorrow to do the last bit of facia. Need to buy a seperate letterbox now and start saving more cash to get it rendered/roughcast white.

In the end I used the full 13 Te, I probably could've used another couple of tonnes as well to reduce the slope of some of the gradients. Some more work happening this week, the front cladding and soffits have been replaced with western red cedar. This will be oiled to retain it's natural...

Finally got round to breaking out the old gutter downpipe (concreted in) and fitting the Lindab one. Joiner starts in two weeks re-doing the cladding, facias etc. Roofer will be in the week after either re-pointing or fitting dry verge :D Garden's had its second cut now and coming...

They don't advise cutting a letter box into this door so I'm going to fit an external standalone box. Price was £1400 ish for a custom sized door.

Well this project is moving a lot slower thanks to a certain cedar wood supplier. The first delivery had 15 damaged boards out of 53. The replacements which I had to pay for before they would ship have arrived with 8 damaged boards, not cosmetic but full on cracks along their length. Pretty...

Haha, they are lightweight track/summer wheels. Check the tyres on them too

Thanks all, glad you like it! The garden was a 'mare and took up a lot of my time but it was so worth it. Think the joiner is starting in a week or two on the facias, cladding, door etc. Just bought the facia primer, undercoat and satin top coat (RAL colour matched to the door), £180 for the...

Another small thing I did was replace the porch light, you can probably see why... old one New EcoLED replacement, which is very bright. The quality of this item is fantastic. The next things to be done are as follows... New guttering, facia boards and cladding. The...

I moved into this 1970s house last year and have just started on the alterations. Once the joinery work is done the next phase is an attached 1.5 car wide garage and roughcasting the whole building as the dry dash is a mess. So, starting with the garden... It was a complete mess, every...

Folks, Spent a good of time ripping all the trees, bushes, turf etc out of my garden and it's now time to start putting it back together. I measured out the area and ordered 13 Tonne topsoil to hopefully pack it up to the right elevation. I got my first 3 Tonne and I've started with the...