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The property I am doing up has thick S&C render everywhere indoors, up to 20 mm in some places but usually around 10, topped by a plaster skim coat. The S&C seems to me at least partly structural - I say this because some of the walls are quite flimsy hollow clay blocks (only around 80 mm thick)...

I am building some internal partition walls inside a bungalow, they will not be supporting anything apart from their own weight and anything hung on to them. I plan to construct these out of brick (preferred) or concrete blocks. The bungalow is a 1970s build and has a solid concrete floor slab...

Project is to replace a damaged, leaking flat garage roof. The roof consists of a thin fibreglass layer supported by OSB panels, which in turn rest on purlins and joists. The roof doesn't drain properly and the fibreglass has cracked, leading to the underlying OSB rotting. The joists were...