I’m building a rear extension on my bungalow. The block and beam floor has been designed so that the beams run parallel with the rear facing wall....
Is a cavity required below a bifold door? My architect has sent me drawings and it’s showing a cavity tray with weep holes below the bifold, I’m...
Good evening all! I'm shortly looking to put up a new fence *above an existing wall* in our front garden. -BACKGROUND INFO- The (single brick)...
Hi all, My home has an issue that during its many years of life, number of very questionable building choices have prior to my moving there The...
Hi all, I've got to lower the ground level of my stone walled house to below the DPC. Digging out itself is relatively trivial - most of it is...
Hi there all, I bought a semi detached 1930s house about 1 y and a half ago. In the living r room there used to be a fireplace breast on the party...
I've dug out a hearth and would like some advice on installing some joists. Please see photos. As you can see the hearth has left a gap. The...
I would like some advice about mould coming through a newly laid laminate flooring. The house was built in the 1920s. We have undertaken some...
As you can see from this first picture, we are having a massive infiltration problem around the chimney breast. [IMG] To give some general...
During the build of our extension the builder built the walls (outer and inner) before laying the slab. This means the DPM does not go under the...
I have a double garage sized outbuilding at the back of my property, no longer accessible by a vehicle and have partitioned it down the middle so...
Hi I have a 600mm gas DPC bridging the cavity and I need to install a cavity tray with this. I started to use some polythene DPC as the cavity...
Hi, We had a patio done over a year ago, but have started noticing some damp and some smells. Upon investigating one possible cause could be that...
Hi I am doing an extension and had a trial hole dug for the foundations which was to 1.4m (deep due to trying to find good ground - point 1...
Hi for my extension build I wanted to check what point I needed to build the engineering brickwork up to for DPC The back of the current house...
Hi, I'm building an out-house - can the internal floor level be lower than the external DPC Level? i.e. Screed come to lower than the DPC brick?...
hi, I have a garden that sits on top of an underground car park. In my garden there is a DPC membrane covering the entire surface area also...
We had a conservatory removed at the back of our house and are planning on replacing it with a patio. However, the concrete slab that was under...
Hi I will be using periscope vents to air under a block and beam floor and wondered about the below ground cavity fill. All the regs say to fill...
Hi It seems i'm trying for the record of the longest time taken to do an extension! I am hitting so many problems! After much advice &...
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