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Anybody able to answer the following? 1) What's the best thickness of torch on to use for the underlay and cap layer and best brand to use 2) For the overlaps what is the best bead size to achieve on the flat and upstands 3) Are drips only supposed to be formed from the cap sheet or is the...

Hi I've got a small garage on the side of my house that needs refelting. It's a concrete flat roof which connects to the neighbours garage. What is the best method to refelt this on myside? I'm thinking of going with a 2 ply torch on, with the cap sheet being torch on mineral felt. Any tips on...

Cheers muggles it's the actually cold water tank that supplies the hot which is 1.5 metres above my taps, its not in the loft! I measured from the top of it and unfortunately it's not possible to move it. Noted about the smaller bore I'll replace with copper rather than plastic pipe. The thing...

Hi, I'm in the process of renewing some plumbing work from copper and compression fittings to pushfit plastic in my bathroom. It's a mixed system gravity fed hot and mains pressure cold, The hot water tank is only marginally higher than the bath taps at around 1.5 metres. Currently the Hot water...

Hi, I'm tiling a small toilet room just under 2 metres long and 1 metre wide with 60cm x30cm tiles in a running/brick bond pattern with possibly with a 33% offset (prefer 50% offset tbh). I can get two full length tiles on the wall but the third tile will have to be cut down by a third, my...

Thanks Swwils, two questions though, firstly a condensation risk assessment how would I go about doing that? The stripped back walls are single skin burnt clay hollow brick. One wall partitions to a separate bathroom which will be tanked the other to a bedroom, so possible variations in temp...

Hi I've stripped back to the bare brick on a small toilet room, which I intend to tile over after plaster boarding. The problem I have is the walls are very uneven, my question is how do I make sure the plaster boards are level with one another and plumb? For plumb I'm guessing its start from...

Jeds, I'm a novice at bricklaying, I can do a decent stretcher bond garden wall with piers and corner returns etc I'm trying to take that up a level to doing cavity walls, which I can do when its just a straight wall or a single simple corner return, I 'm taking that a step up to doing a shed...

Anyone got any books or links explaining block work bonds used in the uk? Brickwork too, but mainly on when to use half bats and 3/4 bricks etc in stretcher bond not how to do english or quetta bond etc. Figuring out the correct bond work for stretcher is hard enough, it's a right royal pain.

Hi Just practicing building a roughly 3x2 metre shed using cavity wall construction, I'll be using practice mortar once I've figured out the bond so it's not a permanent structure. I'm finding it really difficult to dry bond out the inner leaf block work with outer leaf brick work such that the...

Cheers woody, I think I'll start using gauging rods, top tip with scribing the level too. When I started learning brick work one of the more experienced guys told me it is a much under appreciated art, it certainly is.

Cheers Woody, can I pick your brains abit more? when building a long wall lets say the length of the average house in the Uk with no door openings to break up the length, how do you ensure that the rack back "teeth" on the corners are level with the opposite corners courses? The guy who taught...

Hi Just wondering if someone could give me some advice on how brick layers in the construction industry go about building a cavity wall. What I have been taught is to rack back corners then use a string line to fill in the middle of the wall with bricks. However I've seen a few different...