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These are great!

Caer parc in wrexham is full of them. Horrendous brick to screw into

Rising damp in Spain - Spain is cold and can be pretty wet in winter…

The Dutch have a saying: "God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands"

Either that beam is well over sized for the job or a job is being undertaken here that would be near imossible before this invention. Overzealous engineering results in overzealous engineering to solve it.

"Every precaution" ... except gloves, not when you have builders hands 😂

Safe time and money... Go for a cheap monoblock pavers over sub base and then sharp sand... Then there is no buying expensive concrete or mixer work.. per M2 crappy pavers are much cheaper than concrete... Definitely stable enough for a shed, garden room etc...

Blocks are great... unless you live in an area that gets earthquakes... then they're a death trap and completely useless, ask the Turks...

1:30. Basic chemistry safety. Never, ever add water to a strong acid or alkaline substance. Always add the acid/alkaline to the water. That way you start with a pH neutral substance that you progressively make stronger. This greatly reduces the chances of splashing and minimises the heat produced by what is usually an exothermic reaction. This precaution could easily save one’s skin or eyesight.

Did you put insulation inside the window reveals to avoid cold bridging?

Middelburg Vlissingen ❤

Haven't been there for 40 years, a bit tidier. Always doing things on the weekend, fun.

There is another word used for windpumps that is similar to mill.... in Afrikaans the daughter child of Dutch people who fled here , meul, plural meulens. a wind pomp here is usually associated with a small pond or dam wich would be fed from a pump using the windpomp. We still have a dutch mill just outside Cape Town, recently damaged in a fire, so under reconstruction.. When I look at the Netherlands it gives me weird people. some of the buildings I see existed there when my ancestors left there in the 1600s.

hoi !!

look after /clean your tools + your tools will look after you

He's aged well 😂😂😂

Reminds me of cleaning my make-up kit (have to trowel it on these days).

Bloody brilliant I guess it's all about cost. Compression attachment only I guess, no solder. I think its brass so....

if you found that fault without seeing any drips and actually checking stuff, thats very good fault finding

Used all over spain for construction

pulling your larry? eh?

Look , the soda cleaned my shirt!

Acid v. alkali. Bicarb's alkaline, cement is EXTREMELY alkaline, so you need something acidic to attack it.

I had a house built in the Toulouse region of France when I was living there, and it was built using clay bricks and then covered french crepe which is a type of rendering used extensively in France. They are great at keeping the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer. I am still amazed we haven't progressed in the UK past using concrete block!

They are thicker versions with many more air pockets.. these act as a thermal insulation.. We built our house in France with these.. those heavy concrete blocks offer no insulation and are hard to work with.. No regrets at all

Have a look as Iso Span. It is a wood-concrete material manufactured in Austria but available for shipping to the UK as well. Very easy to work with, can even be premade into wall segments, very good insulation. My house was built from it in the early 1960s and is still holding up perfectly. Newer variations are availbable with builtin insulation. R-Values of up to 6,51 are available. U-Value is 0,148 for those blocks then. They allow for very rapid construction with great thermal and accoustic properties.

Why do the Dutch use much smaller bricks than us?

Another great video, thanks. Any hints on what to do when the cartridge is too short to reach the seat. I've added another washer to fill the gap but maybe there's a better answer?

I enjoy watching Steve & Alex and am going to attempt a shed base in brick, Why are bricks made shorter to fit the length of run rather than make the length a full number of bricks, Thanks

Pressure washer or sanding with brush on angle grinder

I’m always leaving trowels mucky. I’m a chippy so it’s never my main trade but I just fire up the belt sander

Heat pump is always a problem. They do not perform at cold temperatures. And, in fact, having a good insulated house brings the electric bill down to affordable prices, if you have instead a boiler , you spend even less in energy than having a heat pump. Raising the gas prices has one only outcome: increase the energy poverty, because it won't bring you bill down when using a heat pump but instead will equalize the energy bill for heat pumps and boiler to the high level price of heat pump. Good way to increase taxes, I would say!!! We miss people who understands about energy and technologies to set policies at government level...

Brick acid is not as strong as it used to be but I used to put mine in pure cement afterwards then wash off in the past as a newbie .

Structural engineers tend to over compansate so it covers them , always go bigger rather than that will do!

Try one of those ultrasonic baths

Porotherm ir equivalents are used all over continental Europe, in all sorts of climates. They're often used for partitions, as well as walls. I have never understood why they're not more commonly used in the UK and Ireland. They have a lot of advantages and potentially could reduce costs.

Fabulously explained for novices, like me. Thank you, Roger. You've allayed my worst fears.😅😊

In my job, (cement based polished screed flooring) we only use 50% watered down 29Y40 based bonding liquid instead of just water. A quick soak in some Xylene or thinners gets the tools clean in seconds. Xylene instantly softens the latex and turns the hard cement into a paste.

Wow, fabulous forethought ❤

One of the reasons could be because of weather, environment conditions, and building codes. A lot of people in UK, and the rest of Europe give us in the states crap 💩 for houses built with wood. The thing that they don’t get or understand the house here are built using the best materials for the area in America. Look at most of NY does use brick, but brick isn’t good in tornado areas. Just like in places like Arizona, New Mexico and that area uses adobe clay because of the heat in the area getting up to 120° F (49° C) or even higher the record temperature here was 134° F (57° C)

Hemp Crete blocks and Aerogel Cladding please

No one’s talking about him eating the salt isn’t toxic 🤢I wouldn’t eat mine. Yeah my house has got raising damp waiting for it to be done .

Wicks sell it as well