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I read the post for the first time yesterday. I wasn't really looking for a response, I guess - just feeling a little mischievous. Still, your response proves how stateless the web is (I could have been pondering this one for 15 months...). Maybe it's the paint they use, but I'd challenge...

I worked in the building industry in Oz for a few years, as well as living there since I was born. Compared to walls over here, walls there are lovely. Rooms are generally larger (so you should be able to see lines/ridges from a better range of sight lines), and white is the favoured colour, in...

thanks for your advice, cheers, Derek

I'll probably go with a concrete lintel a few course under the arch, but I'll probably wedge the arch in the process anyway and point up, as you've suggested. The span from outer edges of pillar to pillar is 65" (1650mm) - will a 65mm x 100mm lintel be enough, or should I go bigger...

Hi, I have pulled the plaster off a bricked up fireplace, which I want to open up, and discovered that the keystone is loose in the brick arch, with a crack running up from it through the second course of bricks in the arch, and also through 2 course of bricks above the arch. I am...

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