Recent content by Benlawyers

yes ... i thought that might be the case bud .. Thank you ! Oh well .... that's January booked out then !!

yes. the problem is that it's such an old house with an accumulation of botch jobs!! the understairs cupboard has been completely boarded out and then T+G NAILED in over the top so access to the actual "bones" of the stair is almost impossible. the problem is that ideally we wanted to put a...

Firstly Guys and Gals, thank you for all your advice so far. Project is coming along nicely. I now have a more serious problem i think. the main staircase in the house (1830'3 design) has a sweeping return at the top (90 degrees) and the top three steps are in terrible condition. I can't get...

i'd need to measure again but i think 6x2 there is plastic sheeting behind roof tiles and Felt in some areas. now that i have exposed all the rafters i am definitely looking for an insulator. i'm installing LED downlighters to minimise heat from lighting within the insulation. i would like to...

Hiya Benlawyers is the name of the first mountain i climbed (i.e. i'm not a lawyer :wink: ) my son is only with me once a week and every other weekend and has a bedroom at mine. the loft is too small for a conversion but now that the floor is boarded, there is enough space for a bean bag...

it's ultimately going to be a "den" of sorts for the son's Xbox and hifi etc. So ... of i fill between the rafters with "fibre" insulation leaving a gap between that and the roofing felt and then staple the membrane over that and then Plasterboard would that be right? if i'm fitting downlights...

i have now fully boarded the loft floor and am about to start on the "walls" my question is do i ned to actually insulate between the rafters or can i staple a breathable membrane across and plasterboard straight on to that? the reason i ask is that the rafters are very old and only the thinnest...

all the cables are running over the top of the joists BTW so i have to find someway of routing them so i can lay the boards.

Hi, i am currently boarding out mt loft space and having ripped up the old floor boards and exposed into the eve's there is a spiders web of cabling. what's the best way to tidy this up? i'm not a sparky at all so wondered if i could just extend the cable lengths using Scotchblocks so they were...