footings

Some general guidance please. To the rear boundary of my garden is a 1.8m high concrete block wall which is on the other side of the boundary line i.e. it is my neighbor's property and he insists that it remains untouched. It's footings are circa 200mm deep. I don't know how wide the footings...

Some advice please – I planning a single skin brick/block garage [building regs approval not required], one side will be <1m from my neighbor's garage and above a disused rubble soak-away [clearly 5m rule didn't exist when that was dug out]. What is the minimum work necessary to achieve...

So I have an issue. I've come accross foul drainage going through the middle of the 5 meter length of footing. However this drainage runs through the whole length at around 70cm depth. I was hoping to dig 1 meter. What's the correct way to get around this issue. The drain seems to have a load...

I'm in the process of building a new front Doorstep. I'm planning to build formwork, before pouring a Concrete foundation, then laying stone Treads and Risers onto a Mortar bed. There is an existing structurally sound cast-in-situ Concrete step in place that has been there for almost 100 years...