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Colin Grigson
Bass guitarist - Bad News
- Location
- Slovakia
Did you remember the Damp Course John - shame to let such a beautiful wall get damp
Damp course on a garden wall????Did you remember the Damp Course John - shame to let such a beautiful wall get damp
No that should be tyred is reading this thread.I'm tired reading this thread
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
Are you incorporating a couple of pillars into that length of wall?
Colin Grigson
Bass guitarist - Bad News
- Location
- Slovakia
I’m not sure Jowwy … here we put a flexible DPC membrane in garden walls too - but I can see the folly of my comment looking at the differing ground levels on either side of the wall - John‘s side would broach the DPC any way … I’ll shuffle back out muttering to myself …
Im just curious as to why they would that when it would just get rained on anyway….i mean damp course is to stop water penatrating the building, but a garden wall it seems strange.
Colin Grigson
Bass guitarist - Bad News
- Location
- Slovakia
Here walls are usually rendered (if you’ve seen the bricklaying here you’ll appreciate why) and the DPC prevents the mortar, render and finish being damaged by rising damp … I think
Nope, but there'll be a skin of bricks too when it's done so shouldn't need any pillars 😊 I'm putting ties in every block so it should be pretty solid.
neil_merseyside
Guru
- Location
- Wirral
My god you are thorough!
What do you do as a day job?
I may not need your services but if you put anything like as much effort and ability into your paid work you are the man we might need!
What do you do as a day job?
I may not need your services but if you put anything like as much effort and ability into your paid work you are the man we might need!
Only if you want 15 different jobs doing simultaneously with none of them getting finished
Only if you want 15 different jobs doing simultaneously with none of them getting finished
I'd be offended if it wasn't true
Hoping to get the driveway and kitchen done fairly soon so I can get back on to the downstairs loo and hallway I'm a product development engineer by trade
Practical stuff has always kept me entertained 😋
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
I couldnt do half of what he does after my job im farked !, mind you lift a couple of ton a day doing that
I laid the last of the blocks today. Started around 9am and hand mixed a barrow of muck up then started laying blocks. I'm getting around 13 blocks laid to a mix, but each hand mix is half the size of a machine mix.
After I'd used up that mix I did some setting out and knocked some posts in to mark the finished driveway level before stopping for some lunch.
After lunch I mixed up another barrow of muck and set to laying the last of the blocks. I've also marked up approximately where the fence posts will be which will allow me to stagger the wall height correctly when the bricks arrive.
So here is the wall as it stands now. At the far end it'll have one course of bricks added to the top to get to full height, then as we get closer to the camera it will stagger down dropping 2 brick courses at a time approximately in line with the fence posts, to the nearest half brick anyway.
Bricks are ordered and due for delivery on Thursday. The dropped kerb guys have said they'll start on Wednesday too but we shall see if that happens or not, they've been a bit flakey to date The car charger is also due to be installed on Friday, its all go here!
After I'd used up that mix I did some setting out and knocked some posts in to mark the finished driveway level before stopping for some lunch.
After lunch I mixed up another barrow of muck and set to laying the last of the blocks. I've also marked up approximately where the fence posts will be which will allow me to stagger the wall height correctly when the bricks arrive.
So here is the wall as it stands now. At the far end it'll have one course of bricks added to the top to get to full height, then as we get closer to the camera it will stagger down dropping 2 brick courses at a time approximately in line with the fence posts, to the nearest half brick anyway
.Bricks are ordered and due for delivery on Thursday. The dropped kerb guys have said they'll start on Wednesday too but we shall see if that happens or not, they've been a bit flakey to date
The car charger is also due to be installed on Friday, its all go here!
