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Thank you for your help! Anyone in here can advise on the best mix? The area we have to do is not worth getting the ready mix so we are going to mix it ourselves

So looks like I was going for an overkill What mix did you use for the concrete slab? Or did you use read mix?

Hey! I am helping my brother to install wet UFH in his house. Part of the floor is old uninsulated concrete and part is suspended floor. The suspended one is fine, we will put new timberwork lower and we have a system that then goes on top of it. For the concrete I can't go above it as the...

Hey! Thanks for that, what would you suggest to minimise that and not having the cost sky rocketing? Wouldn't it be enough to have the slight slope off the house with 10cm mot on top to direct the water away?

Most of the patio is already there, just old and falling apart. I am making it now lower and larger so most of the soil is what is already there, then to top it up I have a pile of clay soil dug up from under the top soil and left over from the shed foundation, nothing really wants to grow on it...

Thanks for confirming, I am glad it is a sound idea, I was a bit stressed it would not hold correctly.

Hey! I found a lot of mixed info about it. So I want to make a patio, about half a meter higher than the garden ground level. There is a smaller existing patio that is just falling apart. In a few years time I would like to build an extension and ideally reuse as much of the materials as...

Hey! For the green roof would you actually use felt-on or rubber membrane? Also how would you finish off the edge where gutter sits? I need to of course install some barrier to keep the soil in place but let water run to the gutter. The edge will be around 7m so quite long. I was thinking about...

Well another point, the roof run will be 5m so to extend it over the front and back I'd need about 6m rafters. I could not see ones that long so I guess i will have to join two together. If i overlap them and bolt together do you think this will hold well?

Then i shall go for ply, i suppose 18mm. Good shout. Yeah i was specifically looking for a house with a big garden. Then again, would it be good to use 200mm x 45mm with 450mm spacing? Or is it an overkill?

Hey! I am about to finish concrete block walls in my outer building. Next step would be to lay a roof on it. I am planning to build a green roof. I built a proof of concept on my bin shelter and it seems to work pretty well. So basically i am thinking to build a wooden frame, lower on one side...

Oh yes! Thanks!

Well it doesn't really work this way. At least from my perspective. I think a smart switch so that i can switch the spa off when I'm hungry. Like a hidden one and then pretend it's broken. Go and cook hun and I'll fix it in the meantime.

Ok i thought as much! Cheers

Oh quick one. Water will go in the same trench as the electricity. Fo i need to put both warning tapes above? I mean the yape you put 30cm in the ground about the pipes and cables.

Oh right well that is yet another reason not to have spa! And a good one so thank you, will use it on my partner.

Hardly anyone on the street did anything to the front garden. Most have some gravel or overgrown front gardens etc. Some put some bushes, some wooden fencing, nothing pretty really. Nobody renovated them. I am trying to make the hoisetlook neat and nice, did some work to front garden like cover...

I wasn't exactly sure tbh. I have never done any rendering except for a single wall, but could try my luck. Of course i need to wash it properly, would i just apply render on top of the pebbles or would you try to scrape them off first?

It would probably but there are a lot of spots where the pebbles are missing etc. I was also thinking of painting it with water and cement to keep more of the original look?

Hey Guys, I bought a house with terrible front garden fence, and i have no idea how to approach it. It is made of concrete, seems solid inside (not bricked) and rendered with pebbles, of which most are missing. Anyone had any luck repairing something like that? Ideally i would like to keep it...