So you have a step down into this shed? Or are you putting another floor in?
There will be a floor inside, cellotex plus cheap laminate – but there will still be a step in / out, but I’m fine with that. As the slab is flush with the external ground, I don’t want any pooling water to go under the door.
Footflaps, where does your DPM and DPC run then? DPM on top of the slab and dressed up 2 courses of bricks to DPC, with your floating floor on top? That would explain why he’s put the brickwork round the back under the blockwork.
Also you don’t seem to have any brick piers started on the left side.
I’ll take a rain check at the WE. I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt right now as the start is always slow with corners, levelling etc. I’m hoping it speeds up a bit today / tomorrow. Plus I’m not going to get someone else to start tomorrow at zero notice and I’m keen to get as much done as soon as possible….
I’m sorry footflaps but your damp proofing isn’t going to work, unless there’s an apron laid inwards and lapped onto poly on the slab then another concrete/screed pour on top of that.
Engineers detail is poor at best!
You’ll be fine if you lay a poly DPM across the slab and dress it up to the DPC.
Then put your floating floor on top of that (anyway why are you insulating the floor – the walls arent insulated. I’d go underlay board on the DPM, chipboard then laminate, or scrap the laminate and use ply & floor paint)
I’m going to seal the floor and up to the DPC with something waterproof to make a bath tub thing. Insulation isn’t structural, hence not on the structural drawings.
So if I read this right any water that gets in will run under your floating floor / Laminate and wont be able to go anywhere cos it will be on a dpm and under the laminate .
He’s not a brickie. All the brickies I worked with would have built the corners up first so they could run a line to keep each course of bricks or blocks level.
My brothers a brickie but not a cyclist, sent him a link to this thread. He said he would have given him a one inch punch on the second day and sparked him out. Uber taking the p155 in his eyes, loves the thread though.
Single garage on the side of a house, all in £11-12 K 😉
I’d be brutely honest with him and sack him off, he’s taking the pee and giving us bricklayers a bad name, with all the other so called builders from so many other countries competing for jobs, you’d be able to get someone in to do it in real time.
Plenty of retired brickies grateful of a bit of cash would get that up in a few days and have the roof on a couple of days later all tiled and in the dry.