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Antdad K-rend or an equivalent "just add water" render may do the job. This stuff is waterproof and comes in about 6 different colours. Plastic re-enforcing matting can be bought to bed into the base coat.....use chicken wire instead. Try to give yourself a fire-stop barrier around the...

ladylola It does look like a very complicated project and excuse me for pinching the idea but to create an authentic looking Medieval clay oven....on a cart is a challenge I would love to take on... I am giving courses in Clay oven building later this year and would like to let my...

Ladylola Ever since seeing your picture of a Medieval wood-fired oven on a 2 wheel horse drawn cart, I have always longed to build something like that myself. I still run a UK wood-fired oven forum for wood-fired oven enthusiasts, helping people to build their own brick or clay ovens (allbeit...

Mark I don't want to put your builder down as he sounds like a genuine guy but it does sound like to me that a few of your joints are hollow. A quick way to check this without doing any damage is to poke a meat skewer or knitting needle through one or two of the cracked joints. If you meet no...

just another opinion...... I always use a full bed of mortar when laying patio slabs, but I wouldn't condemn brickies that use dabs on a large patio area. The only problem with this is it causes big voids especially directly under where the slabs are to be pointed. When the jointing is done...

Ladylola The problem was only with me (a thicky when it comes to computers) but one of our members sorted it.......28 views in 2 days...I'm sure it will attract a lot of following from our wood oven members. Love baking but not very good at it....I'm off to a week-end bash with a small...

Ladylola........many thanks for the permission..... and your picture. and website are now in our Cob/clay/adobe section of our busy wood-burning oven UK forum and I am sure it will draw a lot of interest. I am interested in military history, mainly ww1, ww11, the French foreign legion and the...

Whoops.......sorry guys Terry

More of a back yard than a garden, but here's my attempt on a bread/pizza oven....... Terry (C.F)

sotal Good idea on the angular patio. Them concave curve's are a bugger to get right (I could never afford one of those curved diamond discs.) I'll have another try at my images....... All the best.....Terry

Kjacko Sound advice from jctilingservices and tictic. I think that the mosaic trowel that tictic referred to is something like this.... http://www.uktilingtools.co.uk/ekmps/shops/smiths/images/rst-trowel-tiling-tools.gif.......these trowels are designed to give a good "grab" to hessian...

Hello Steve How about using some clay pavers. They are very decorative and can be fixed to a sound wall with flexible tile adhesive......something like this.... http://picasaweb.google.com/mikelyonstiling/DrivewayInClayPavingWwwMikelyonstilingCom#5156851870806221906 They are only an...

Ladylola I love the picture of your medieaval wood-fired oven. I run a busy interactive wood-burning oven forum for anybody who is thinking of building their own oven or trying to source refractory materials within the UK...

sotal I laid a patio with Indian slate a while ago. I painted the back of the slabs with a couple of dabs from a paddle brush of uni-bond and water ratio 4:1. I also used a wet mix of sand and cement ratio 4:1 (normall bricklaying mix) with plasticiser ( or a drop of washing up liquid)...