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Again, without wishing to hijack anyone's thread, but hopefully this will help Matt too... I've now removed the render from the back wall of the old part of...
Hi my freind has just had it done in his house, seems to be working he can feel the house being dryer, and that was june! Will have to wait a whole winter to...
I hope everyone is ok with this. I've no connection with the seller but thought this message was worth cross-posting. Contact the "seller" direct if...
Kitchen has been in for almost two years and for various reasons only now are we getting round to ordering the granite worktops we had quotes for in early...
I used Just Marble (www.justmarble.co.uk <http://www.justmarble.co.uk/> ) as their prices were good and they also offered a reasonably priced templating ...
Just a reminder on how to join to join the UK_Selfbuild group - been asked to re-post this for people who wish to send to colleagues etc. The UK_Selfbuild...
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... for in early 2006. Any supplier suggestions ? Worth sticking "granite" into the advanced Search box on eBay; tick the box for both Title and Description...
'thought this looked OK ... wondered if anyone had seen one ... 850mm square (?) sounds marginal, but might be alright ... price seems competitive with...
We have just had the (traditional) floor screed laid at the end of last week. It is dry enough to walk on, but will take much longer to dry out completely....
We have just had the (traditional) floor screed laid at the end of last week. It is dry enough to walk on, but will take much longer to dry out completely....
Will the builder offer any warranty for laying onto semi-dry screed? I would recommend looking at BAL Adhesives, not cheap but seem to be regarded as one of...
Dear Dan Question? If the floor is covered with an impervious layer - where does the builder expect it to dry out The cuboid has six sides the bottom is a DPC ...
... enough work to do between screeding and floor tiling On the subject of adhesives , I held my hands up to BAL and paid about £850 to topps tiles and that...
We laid travertine onto traditional screed in our kitchen after 3 weeks, and that was in March last year. The adhesive took forever to set fully (36h+) with...
Peak Granite and Marble, via our kitchen supplier (Churchwood), were cheaper than all of the "cheap" granite firms we found on the web. We were very surprised...
... I had cause to try and lift a portion of tile from our kitchen floor a couple of weeks ago and the BAL flexible adhesive was a pig to get off. I was amazed...
We're digging out a pond in a damp part of the garden. It's so damp that, in winter, I wouldn't need a liner, though in summer I certainly do. Various people...
David You are right - but it will depend on there being water in the pond. Have you considered how you'll top it up and where it will overflow to when it's...
All our walls are random rubble, centuries old, with (theoretically) lime mortar, though in some areas, when we've had to rebuild bits, the mortart has looked...
Yes, I think that should be OK. It's not our first pond. There's tap water nearby, and I know that's not supposed to be a good idea, but we're not into fish,...
Hi We have been building for 5 years, and today I learnt something I should have done in the 1st few weeks. I thought people on the list who are planning a...
Considering his age, your mate is a bright lad. Is the area of the pond ever likely to flood? If so a few rocks on the bottom and around the edges would help. ...
It certainly gets very wet, but I've never seen standing water there. And there will be rocks round the edges, holding the liner in place. The one thing we...
On the other side you do need to make sure people on site don't trash your future planning - happened a couple of times to me :-( dumpers, diggers and...
If water is flowing through your ground it may exert an additional force on 1 side of the liner as it hits the obstacle and gets pushed down below it. In...
... to take it to Well ... along those lines :) ... we have a lined pond in the garden. Standard orange groundwater 4" pipe from the roof downpipe goes into...
