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Thanks Noseall. Also, as the pipe would be in the sub base for my floor slab, would I fill around the pipe with pea shingle, and then be fine to put MOT type 1 compacted over the top of that?

Hello. So currently I am excavating the foundations for a cavity wall garden office. Unfortunately my drain pipe runs at an awkward angle at the corner of where my foundations would be. My initial thought was to excavate the foundations deeper and pour the concrete below the pipe, and then...

Looking to make a cavity wall for an outbuilding. It’s around 500 blocks and 450 bricks, with 50mm PIR in the cavity. Straight forward square building. How much am I looking at for labour if I source the materials myself?

Thanks woody, appreciate your help. Definitely saves a lot of money by not putting them internally

Thanks very much Noseall. Yes I agree about the aesthetics. The intention is to render over the concrete blocks, but obviously below dpc isn’t really an option to render. The ground is also sloping so one side would have quite a high dpc relative to ground level, so a lot would be on show...

Hi everyone, first post here. I'm in the process of designing a garden hobby room which is to be built using a cavity wall. My initial idea was to construct it entirely from concrete blocks (considerably cheaper), however I have read here that engineering bricks are better around the DPC and...