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Planning on building a retaining wall to hold up a drive way. It’s approx 17 courses of block on flat just over 1800mm and I planned on building it 900mm at the base and gradually stepping it up to 215mm at the top. Could anyone advise on how often I should reduce the thickness of the wall and...

Recently received this drawing to price up for a customer...... Anyone else think the designer has gone a bit over board with the block piers? the garage is to be constructed in 6” block.

Hello I have a job coming up where the customer had an old fireplace in the middle of a room open on 2 sides. This has since been studded and sheeted on one side leaving the other side open. The idea is to install a log burner in heating up the room with the fire place still open to. Now...

Morning guys Starting a job Monday building a retaining wall along the back of a garden. The wall is approx 20m long then returns for 5m and is 1.2m high. The original Plan was to build it 18” at the bottom for a course then step in into 14” and finish with 9” on the top. wall is being...

Hey guys got a job on just now which is requiring approx 15 new steps up to a new front door. There is a landing at both top and bottom. I’ve been asked if I can now shutter the steps and landings and cast them in situ whilst the strip foundation for a retaining wall is being poured. Just...

Planning on levelling my mates new build garden out before it’s getting turfed. It’s a mix of puddles and divots on a pretty steep slope. Just soil and clay and some boulders. What I would like to know is would we be better adding a layer of hardcore on top of this after we have roughly...

Hey guys, replacing copes on a job after we removed the roughcast and existing copes the weight of the iron gate has pulled the top piece of stone loose. I was thinking of drilling through the loose piece of stone and straight into the wall placing rebar in and epoxying back into place and...

Hey guys. What's a good sand lime mix for repointung a bit of old soft sandstone? Also it looks like it has been built with sharp sand and lime mix is this how I should go about it? Last question is it hydrolic or hydrated lime?? Thanks

Hello guys looking for some advice on fixing a steel ring beam to the top course of brick. Does anyone know what kind of bolts to use and which torque to tighten them to? Don't have anything on the engineers drawings. It's a purely aesthetic ring beam non structural so just needing something...

Looking for some ideas on building these two corners. As the customer doesn't want a birdsmouth. Am I looking at running a straight joint right up with ties in it??

Recently fitted larger lintels for a friends new patio doors. Turns out the joiner got the size of the doors wrong then told my friend the barely 70mm bearing either side would be fine. Not only that he's went and cut the opening with a 9" grinder so it's barely sitting on half a brick...

Guys just a wee heads up if anyone is interested. Was in the market for a wacker there for smallish projects the odd bit of paving etc. So was looking in screwfix and found the following. https://www.screwfix.com/p/scheppach-hp1100s-5-5hp-petrol-compaction-plate-530-x-350mm/2905v Doing a wee...