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Defintley 9 :D From the top holes down, 3,4,5,6,8,13,14,15,16 :LOL:

Hi Ken, there are 9 screws in the strap, I had to zoom in on the picture on my phone to see them too :) The blocks were stored outside in the elements but most of them were bone dry when laid, apart from a splashing from a wet rag from me as I believed that is what you had to do, unless I was...

The next door neighbour has an apple tree quite close to one side.

Thank you for your reply. I don't plan on doing anything with the shed till maybe next year now, besides a second/third coat of exterior paint, so the block work will be exposed till then so I'll keep my eye on it. With it being a shed, what size does the crack need to get to before I have to be...

I finished my shed build around October last year but I seem to have some cracks in my mortar, in the step formation, on both walls in the center of the building. The cracks are on the interior and exterior but show more on the internal with the gap being wider at the top. Does this sound like...

Thanks Frank, I'll give it a good airing with the doors and windows open then. I don't think the dampness goes too far into the insulation as some other parts are pretty much dry on top so shouldn't take long to dry. Cheers Frank

Hi :) Finished my build a couple of months ago and everything is now water tight. It's a double skin building with floor, wall and roof insulation (warm roof). The floor is comprised of hardcore, sand, DPM, celotex insulation then the concrete floor. During the build though we had a lot of rain...

Thank you for the added confirmation of the plasterboard solving it :-) I've used straps on my door but I had the same problem, i didn't want to come much further back as the frame would be hanging over the cavity with no support for the weight unless the straps will be strong enough to hold it...

The frame was installed centrally to the outer blocks with not much movement to either edge of the block either inside or outside. If it went inside much further it would have been hanging over the cavity and I was securing the frame with screws so needed to be in a position to drill into the...

Hi, Just finished building my brick shed but I'm having a problem with condensation on the inside of the cavity lintel for both my window and door. DSC_0002_zpsa1aay5kk by Shinogi posted 25 Nov 2015 at 11:56 AM How would I go about stopping this from occuring? The shed is brick and block...

Moisture on lintel

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Brilliant, thank you. I'll get some foil tape though to seal the joints as I presume that's needed for a complete seal. Thank you for your reply.

I'm looking at insulating my sheds flat roof. I've already bought some 18mm and 11mm OSB3 and 100mm Celotex insulation as it's going to be a warm roof. Everything will also be mechanically fixed and finished with an EPDM sheet. I'll be fitting the 18mm OSB3 first and I need a vapour control...

The bricks I used for my shed had 5 holes in them. I used an angle grinder to score a line on 3 faces of the brick, obviously not the facing side, and then hit the brick on the line with a bolster chisel and hammer on it's longest face (the top). Cut perfectly 98% of the time. I cut around 30...

Thank you Richard, I already have the OSB3 18mm and 100mm insulation ready, I was just wondering if OSB2 would be fine to go on top of the insulation as that's all my supplier has at the minute. I've put the order in for the OSB2, thank you for your input.

Hi :) I've just about finished my double skin brick shed and I'm about to do the roof. My plan is for a warm roof so I'm going to lay the 18mm OSB3, then a Vapour barrier followed by 100mm celotex insulation boards. I'm thinking about putting another layer of OSB on top of the insulation...

The building side of it is pretty much done now, I just need to sort out the roof but trying to figure out what pitch I need on the roof is doing my head in. Could someone offer me some advice please? The joists are going to be 5m (taking weight over 4.16m) and online tables tell me they...

Brilliant, thank you. Though their price has gone up another £20 now :lol: Cheaper on ebay 8) That's all I needed to know so I'll get some ordered, cheers Dude.

Those cavity closers that the link was posted to earlier, excellently priced but would there be a problem with cold bridging from the outside cavity? The more expensive ones do not have the plastic going all the way across and only have plastic to hold the insulation. There is a...