Start again after a house move...
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:39 pm
Well I had to rip up my old.line, and now I'm.starting again with more space.
My old garden was terraced, so I enjoyed all the benefits of a ground level.line and and a raise line. New Garden is flat.
So my initial concern is trackbed, my old linrwas filcris at ground level buried in gravel. The new line I suspect I'm.going to be looking at blocks.
So....I read a lot, my preference is thermalite blocks, light easy to cut etc, however there is a lot of conflicting stuff about Frost resistance, some say they crack easily in Frost, others (manufacturers included), say they are highly Frost resistant, what's the consensus?
And also foundations, again lots of contradictory stuff, just cut a level trench and.plonk em in, cut a level trench then a bed of morter, some tamped gravel and lay them on that, tamped gravel and a morter bed, concrete footings of (insert random.number).depth. I'm only going 2 blocks high, so what seems sensible...
My old garden was terraced, so I enjoyed all the benefits of a ground level.line and and a raise line. New Garden is flat.
So my initial concern is trackbed, my old linrwas filcris at ground level buried in gravel. The new line I suspect I'm.going to be looking at blocks.
So....I read a lot, my preference is thermalite blocks, light easy to cut etc, however there is a lot of conflicting stuff about Frost resistance, some say they crack easily in Frost, others (manufacturers included), say they are highly Frost resistant, what's the consensus?
And also foundations, again lots of contradictory stuff, just cut a level trench and.plonk em in, cut a level trench then a bed of morter, some tamped gravel and lay them on that, tamped gravel and a morter bed, concrete footings of (insert random.number).depth. I'm only going 2 blocks high, so what seems sensible...