Recent content by scaredpassenger

hi guys, looking at getting the front of our house externally insulated and rendered,, house is cavity wall to sides and rear with cavity insulation but front wall is engineering brick with batton and tiled front, looks hideous, tiles are all breaking and old and this wall feels cold compared to...

well yeah if your paying for a company or builder to do it for you, I can understand it would be a drop in the ocean, but for a self converter, like myself, its about 25% of the total conversion cost! I've already spoken with planning and building reg's at my council, no planing permission...

Bob!! Lol

Hi Tony (great name by the way....... Guess what my name is.... Lol) I haven't checked if there is a dpm in the original floor and I don't want to be smashing the driveway or garage floor up to find out. So just thought my inclusion of a new dpm was going to cover all angles, the house is 40...

HI DOH whilst I'm sure i could do as you say with the screed, my reasoning for the wood frame work was just that i can do it myself, simply and in my own timescale. All i want to know is can the frame sit on top of the original garage floor, but thank you very much for your response

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of planning a garage conversion on our property, just for clarification its a 4 bed detached home, all exterior walls including garage are cavity walls. Currently our garage flooring sits around 180mm below that of the floor in the hall which is adjacent to it...

if anyone wants to move this to the flooring section please feel free, not sure if it will be better placed here or there?!

hi guys, I have just purchased a house built in 1974, its a detached 4 bed in need of modernisation, all the upstairs areas needed new carpets throughout, but other than that and the windows and general decorating, upstairs is fine...... or so I thought!! having removed the original carpets...

hi guys just carrying out a full respray (myself in my garage), I need to cut the windows out to carry out the job nicely but before I do I need to find a window adhesive to stick them back in with, anyone else done this kind of thing before? cheers!!