underpinning

Hi, we are in the planning stages of a 1st floor extension. The house is 1960s and has an existing ground floor kitchen extension. The planned extension will be over the garage, utility room and kitchen. Our main issue is that the existing garage wall is only single skin without appropriate...

I've recently had some underpinning design work done, and it's far more extensive than I'd hoped. I'm hoping to get advice here on how thorough I need to be. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this! We have a semi-detached 60s ex-council house, which had a flat roofed outbuilding joined...

We recently lowered the floor in our victorian terrace by approx 15cm. But to do this our builder had to dig the soil down approx 50cm below the brick wall footings before bringing the level back up again with hardcore/concrete/insulation/screed then tiles. Is this against building regs? And can...

Can red bricks be shuttered in with the mortar to save on the quantity of concerete. Potentially a lot of concerete so wanting to save by bulking up.

Can anyone tell me how far, very roughly, the concrete generally projects from the face of an underpinned wall please? Been digging a small trial pit to expose the foundations of my neighbour's Victorian flank wall, as I need to build some new footings adjacent to this, and have exposed some...