Thank you muchly PeterCanessa, I really should have been able to figure that out! Tsk!
*wanders away to go find old maths books* :-)
Ahh...I just tried that, but because it is a cube that is path cut (perhaps?) I found that I need to half the dimension eg:
I have a 10m cube, hollowed to 95% using the 5% theory the wall should be 0.5m - but in actual fact it needs to be 0.25m! - So it becomes 2.5% of the original prim width.
Thank you for making me exercise my grey matter ;-)