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Hi guys im getting further along with my shed/workshop build and now now realised that i need to think about load support if i want to do a 'proper' tiled roof as i have a 5 m span. Currently i have a 5 meter span between my gable ends ive got a sold oak 8x2 on tied in to my 150mm wide oak...

Hi All, Please help me with this bricklaying / finishing issue I'd just finished my dwarf / retaining walls (sloped garden shed base) on which to put my wall/sill plate on for the rest of the shed. I had a last row of blue bricks that I had put a DPC beneath (since the highest part of the...

I've got a shed/workshop foundation (4x5 rectangle) https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/how-to-pour-concrete-footings.545673/page-3#post-4844351 poured that was completed but wasn't exactly the most evenly poured :(... As a result and partly as I am laying in a trench I've laid 3 rows all round...

I have a garden room that I am about to build that is on a minor slope. I want a small brick wall to about knee height on to which I will put a wooden structure. I have a square of 4 Trenchs 18 inch wide each approx 5 m long. I want to have a have good enough foundations and have been advised a...

Hi guys, I am about to build a shed/workshop in my garden. I am sinking the structure down about a foot at the deepest (on a slight slope) so as to get best headroom as near neighbours (thus it is 2.5m high). I am planning to do knee high brick and concrete block dual walls with resting timber...

I have a largeish 4.5m * 2.5 M greenhouse that I have to make foundations for. It's on a 1 in 4? gradient width wise and I've dug 40 cm deep 25 cm wide trenches for concrete so that the lowest part is about 15 cm deep. I've been told this is not deep enough really and it should be 40 cm all...

Hi I've recently had a back boiler removed exsposing a cavity in the chimney in the front room. The brickwork inside this is conrete bricks on the bottom and red brick on all other sides, the right hand of which is extrememly uneven (one brick jutting out 1/2 cm). I want to plaster it so it has...