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    pavers on mortar

    may have made a booboo, looking for advice doing a chap a fovour he wanted 3 concrete paver steps 3 foot tread 3 inch rise roughly converting into a ramp for his electric buggy they were laid on sand but thinking extra sand to make up the slope would be too much/unstable I bedded the pavers...
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    vent/durgo

    Another q, advice please Two upstairs soil pipes exit external walls and run horizontally to meet main stack for downstairs bathroom 1) Can they both exit with 90 bends and go horizontally to vented stack 2) Or will they need vents, I could if ok/needed fit external durgos as the...
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    Soil pipe and foundation

    Another question Where the stack meets the ground theres 11 inches of concrete foundation is it ok to stihl saw a channel out to fit the long radius bend as theres only 10 inches to dpc thanks Francis
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    Soil Pipe

    Hi Im looking for advice regarding my soil pipe layout Basically Im plumbing up two upstairs bathrooms and a downstairs one on a new extension and would appreciate a bit of clarification on a few points Ive spent the afternoon digging a trench for one of the upstairs bathrooms only...
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    slateing valleys and verges

    Some advice please, Im about to slate extension roof two gables, two valleys with cupa spanish preholed and am trying to get my head round the verges and valleys or maybe im just being thick. Slates are 16x10 with guage of 6" 1) the verges ive built are timber overhanging and I would like to...
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    is all roofing membrane created equal!

    I was wondering whether anyone can enlighten me, Ive been quoted wildly differing prices for breathable membrane (100%) to go beneath a slate roof and the obvious question came to mind about quality, web uv15 versus icopal monoperm can anyone enlighten me thanks, Frank
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    building up over a wall plate

    Hi looking for advice , I am building up over a solid 9 inch wall above a timber wall plate which carries a 5x4m slate roof and am wondering what to do with the existing wall plate as i assume i cannot build a 9 foot high outer skin on top of 4x3 timber, I was thinking of temporarily retaining...
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