Not a workshop related thread as such but the solution to the problem might be of interest.
The original design for the orangerie had dwarf walls at the corners and down the long sides. My builder put in the founds for them and then SWMBO changed her mind. Which left us with six of these to somehow hide.
The black plastic is the DPC the builder put in and the dwarf walls were to have been built on top. Bit unsightly. I thought about some sort of punched aluminium sheets but (a) I couldn't find any large enough thus necessitating some elegant way of joining them...such elegance of which escaped me...and (b) they were damn expensive. There had to be a cheaper way.
Our solution was to remove the black DPC as we needed something to key into.
Revealing the bricks which are outside the main DPC envelope. Holes also needed filling with foam because ....ta da.....we were going to put some shuttering around the perimeter and apply self-levelling compound.
Damp-proofed with Acrypol...
Job done
The original design for the orangerie had dwarf walls at the corners and down the long sides. My builder put in the founds for them and then SWMBO changed her mind. Which left us with six of these to somehow hide.
The black plastic is the DPC the builder put in and the dwarf walls were to have been built on top. Bit unsightly. I thought about some sort of punched aluminium sheets but (a) I couldn't find any large enough thus necessitating some elegant way of joining them...such elegance of which escaped me...and (b) they were damn expensive. There had to be a cheaper way.
Our solution was to remove the black DPC as we needed something to key into.
Revealing the bricks which are outside the main DPC envelope. Holes also needed filling with foam because ....ta da.....we were going to put some shuttering around the perimeter and apply self-levelling compound.
Damp-proofed with Acrypol...
Job done
