TheTiddles wrote:Are you still in the new (old) house that you designed and I saw in Suffolk years ago?
Aidan
No, I've moved to an old old house. A hovel, but with loads of potential, and a big garden.
It is currently 28 Mar 2024, 12:44
TheTiddles wrote:Are you still in the new (old) house that you designed and I saw in Suffolk years ago?
Aidan
Mike G wrote:Sounds like you were using the 5mm straps typically sold 100x900 or so (ie c.20x5 in section, and L-shaped, with a leg 100 long, and another leg c.900 long). They're used, for instance, for holding a roof plate down onto blockwork in a house. This stuff is much less beefy, maybe 1mm thick, and sold in rolls. Mine is old stock: I've probably had it 15 years.
Robert wrote:The floor at my daughters seemed impenetrable with a hammer drill but my cheapo SDS drill went through it like a knife through butter.
Mike G wrote:
Headroom needn't be much of an issue, though, however low the building, because you needn't have any joists in the ceiling
9fingers wrote:Just does not feel right (to me that is) the have building blocks that can be cut with handsaw eh?
And that crack as soon as you look at them.
I ended up using high density blocks for my shop (different construction to Mikes)
Those look to be about 3 brick long ~ 650 ish?
Bob
TrimTheKing wrote:Loving the brickwork Mike.
Personally I prefer the (I think it's called) Common Bond (or English Garden Wall, or Scottish Bond) over the Flemish, then English. I like the English but think it's a little overwhelming with the alternating header/stretcher rows and prefer the look of the Common/Garden Wall/Scottish alternative of a single header row per 4-6 stretchers.
Obviously this wouldn't work for your plinth, so I don't know why I'm writing it but just thought I would chip in.
Cheers
Mark
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