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It was far more painful for me, I can assure you. Quite true my friend! So why you show me a German building whilst I am referring to this country is bizarre. I am working in the top end of Scotland where the wind and rain comes off the North Sea sideways at ninety miles an hour at sub-zero...

I cannot understand you completely, but there are many ways to strike an arch, axed, gauged, rough and so forth. You need to determine what type Segmental, semi, gothic and so forth. You will most definately need to build a centering and will have to decide you rise and springing points so as to...

If you don't add OPC to the mix it will not set, especially in damp or exterior work...try it instead of talking a good show! The reasons anyone who does actually practice this craft uses OPC, is because from trial and error they know if a small amount is not gauged (different amounts for...

I beg your pardon! Maybe you can add some meat to that odious and vile accusation? Or do you want to delve deeper into the discussion about the stonemasons work and see who is the back-seat driver? I challenge you! Every forum seems to posses a poison dwarf who's spiteful and jealous...

So we are looking at the rear of the breast that is on the other side of the partition wall? All the same the way to fix it remains. But if you just don't want it there anymore go up into the loft and make sure the wall is not supporting anything (water tank etc) and just knock it down and put...

Never ever use hard OPC mixes on old stonework! Mortars and grouts only act as binders in stonework, what holds the stonework together is the skill of the person who bonded and set the stones especially in random rubble. The use of coloured dyes by ill informed neanderthals should be banned...

As joe-90 rightly said expanding metal will also do a good job. On a side note have you entertained the idea of removing the walls and getting the coves back? You could re-line them and hang shelves/ cupboards or something! Sometimes these fireside coves can provide quite a bit of extra useful...

The house will be built far better than a great many of the modern chuck up garbage that is being knocked together at the moment. That crack has been raked out many times, so it makes it look a lot larger than it is. It also tells us that this crack has been there a great deal of time, which...

That's why you have water coming through the foot of your wall! Is the "solid structure" abutted to the existing wall? Is the "solid structure" 6" below DPC level? When you built this solid structure assuming it is in direct contact with the existing wall and not 6" below DPC, did you put a...

This a point bluerembrandt16. In the "WHICH BOOK OF WIRING AND LIGHTING", Mike Laurence advises "not" to connect the incoming earth from the three core SWA at the outbuilding side, he does not mention anything about whether the SWA earth core should be connected at the house consumer unit...