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Hi guys I'm after some help. I'm looking to build a porch on the front of my house it has a bay window at the front and I'm looking to put a new skin of bricks over the existing bay window bricks and then continue it along to create the porch, that bit I am ok with but after looking at it again...

Well I can't seem to find anything about using it for laying bricks but I imagine it should be fine. Because I'm building a brick hearth I wanted to make it as heatproof as possible, I have a granite slab to put in directly underneath the fire grate and will bed that in with a sand cement and...

Hey, in desperate need of advice!! I've searched the Internet and found loads of info on concrete vermiculite mixes, what I need to know tho is can I make a motar mix for laying bricks with vermiculite in, if so what ratio sand cement vermiculite?? I'm using it to build a brick hearth. I've got...

The tiles I am fixing on the wall only weigh 20.5kg per square metre. There is no plasterboard on any of the walls already it is just plaster skimmed directly onto them, two walls are concrete breeze block and the other two walls are solid concrete. I have spoken to a plasterer and apparently if...

Thank you for the help/advice. Think I will go down the route of rendering as I will loose less space on the wall and still get a good weight bearing capacity. Thanks once again.

When you say mechanical fixing would masonary screws through the board and adhesive be good enough? I I was to render would a basic sand cement rendering mix with plastering sand be good/strong enough? Sorry for the million questions but I just don't want the tiles coming down on my head when...

Just thought as well, is it ok to dot and dab the board over existing plaster, which has been on the wall for donkey years, or is it best to knock all the old plaster off? The walls behind are block and concrete.

Standard plasterboard?! Ok if that's the case then that's good news to the bank balance!! I'm tiling all the way up the wall to the ceiling, the tiles I'm getting have a weight of 20.5kg per square meter, would this be ok to go straight onto the plasterboard if it is dot and dabbed on to the...

Need some advice, read a lot of threads on here and now just confused. I need to bring a wall out level, can't be done with render, which is in bathroom that I am now turning into a wet room. I was planning on using moisture resistant board and tanking it, I am tanking the whole room anyway, so...

Hi sorry to jump in on your post but I'm looking at doing something similar. I want to build a brick hearth and just leave it brick, not sure if I should do a small concrete base to set the bricks on first or weather to put the bricks straight on the floor, it's a concrete floor, have you had...

Hi, new to the site and in need of help! Recently bought my first place and am in the middle of modernising/renovating it. Complete ripped the bathroom apart back to brick (or concrete in my case) took the floor up and ceiling down. Put a plywood floor back down and turned it into a wetroom. I...