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The top of the wall is still open above the 200's and when u drop the full length y-12 bar down after the core fill you rod it up and down as u place it in the core and with an 1800 head height of...

One other thing it also pays to cement a splay on top of the cement sheet with left over concrete or mortar prior to tanking to eliminate the edge where water may penetrate.

Have been doing a few of these lately seem to be the latest in engineering design , I usually lay the 300s then place cement sheet (3.5mm) ripped down to 120 mm wide with a grinder on the back third...

Most retaining walls have written on the engineering drawings cores to be well rodded and this will almost certainly have solved the problem in the first place but why not blame the brickie anyway ....

Apparently concrete can never expand due to thermal movement a greater area than that when placed when wet eg. when the water evaporates as it dries it shrinks back in area and never expands greater...

Built my home theatre as part of house few years back, from memory went 20 mm fireboard then covered with 13 mm normal plaster , was advised this was the most cost effective method , and if you...

I have worked alongside tilers who have been doing it for 40 years and and they have only ever owned a manual tile cutter and a 4 inch grinder . Since u dont have to worry about chipping on the cut...

Me and the apprentice laid 450 2001 blocks in 8 hours today , cold stqrt (first day on job , eg. not loaded up ), stripped boxing and cut all steel reo and placed it . Just told to come and do it ,...

Any extra bricks above eaves or in gable ends ( if any )? . Othe option is to infill above meter box with matching flashing , just trying to help . Cheers

See if there are any below ground or under a deck etc. that u can remove and replace with commons as every batch of bricks varies in shades and textures . Recycling not seen bricks would probably be...

I think I might have said " In the last 10 years " which also meant not moving house , youre kids must love changing schools but I suppose when you earn $200,000 a year they would board at an...

Think I will stay in Tassie as part of a tax minimisation scheme , besides the most time I have spent travelling to work in the last 10 years would be 20 minutes a day.

I guess the worlds best bricklayer could probably justify 40 percent more than what I a mere mortal could.

So you tell me that when you lay an average footing of 400 blocks in one day by yourself you just politely tell them " that will be $ 1600 bucks thanks " . These doctors and lawyers who wasted their...

From experience I have found the worst practice is " tieing " in new work to existing . The house footing and garden wall footing are 2 different entities , the house remains relatively stable while...

Always negotiable 2 storeys and up I tend to either get them to provide erected scaffolding and hoist the bricks up for me or go a higher rate over the whole project , u really shouldnt go wrong with...

the going rate for these parts is about $ 2.50 + gst or $ 2.75 inc.for any block in the 150 series maybe a bit more if struck both sides , hope this helps , regards

It wouldnt hurt to dampen the wall down a bit prior to rendering , just a light flick of water of a paint brush or hand broom is all the renderers use . The corefill in the wall shrank because it is...

Not a bad idea when rendering over the outside of the oven to loosely stretch chicken wire over the insulation and pin in place with a couple of nails , then when u render push it into the chicken...

Have used "pavelok" for a number of years , remember being halfway through a job when it became impossible to source any more in the year 2000 as they were building the village for the sydney...

Realistically most bricks have been fired at near 1000 degrees , the most your electric oven will go to is around 280 degrees . The most your domestic pizza oven will be is between 180 and 250...

There is a product from bondcrete called 'silasec' which makes up a cement based waterproof paint which can be applied on the inside of walls to produce a "tank effect". The instructions are on the...

If u still want to go with piers then you would probably be better off with a '1501' masonry block as your pier which you could then have 12mm reo in the cores and concrete fill. These will course...

Just had a quick look at your plans , not sure how your piers at the window are going to work , do they drop of at sill height ? . It would be far better to bring them up full height at either side...

Have done a few pizza ovens and my preferred bricks are solid white or cream clay pavers 230 * 110 * 40 mm as these are easier to roll the dome over as they are only 40 thick and being solid have...

What needs to be considered is not so much tieing the new piers to the existing wall as this is what mortar is for , but tieing down your new pergola to the top of the pier , I would suggest...