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My builder has just built the first of a few brick arches on my extension - and I am not impressed. Obviously he's used a wooden former and the arch itself is not too bad, its the way he's run the bricks into the arch either side that looks like a dogs dinner. Instead of cutting the bricks with...

I am currently building a two-storey extension to my cottage and there are two carriage arches in the new-build. Does anyone know how to build the perfect arch? Would I be better off using a curved steel beam with plates welded on? Or would you use a wood former and build the arches in brick...

I am currently building a 2-storey extension to my cottage. I am using reclaimed hand-made bricks. So far only a small pillar of brickwork has been built. However now it has stood a couple of weeks the brickwork has got white-stuff on it - now I have seen this white marking on new-builds and...

Hi, I'm currently building a 2-storey extension to my cottage. Up to first floor height the inner-leaf has been built using 7N blocks as it forms part of a retaining wall on 3 sides. However as we build up past the first floor I have a choice of using thermolite blocks or 3.5N medium blocks. Can...