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I'm currently building a garden office from timber over and area of decking in my back garden, my plan is to take the decking up where the office will be insulate between the joists lay a ply wood floor lay a final floor (as of yet undecided) my question is do I need to put some kind...

hello there Ive built a garden office on top of a decking area I have behind my house and in order to get some head room ive made the front a bit higher than I guess I should of! The back of the building is 2m 20cm from the eaves to the decking 2m 35cm from the decking to the top of...

Hi there I'm just building a garden office and im just about to put the joists on for the flat roof, ive built a pitched roof before but want to know if I need to notch out the roof joists each end on this flat roof , the roof is a 5% pitch and im using truss clips thanks jon

Hi all can anyone tell me if its OK to use insulation between and under the joists on a warm flat roof as well as the usual one's on top ( apart from extra cost is there any down side?) im building a garden office, so there's no building regs involved and I tend to do things over kill...

hi there ive build a shed in the garden out of 3x2 and 18 mm ply i want to put cedar shingles on the roof, currently the roof is a sheet of 18mm ply with roofing felt on top, can i just nail the shingles into the ply with a good over lap or do i have to batten the roof? the roof had a 30...

Hi there I have spent the last year re-furbing my house and i have installed john guest under floor heating with a new worcester bosch boiler and im just trying to get my head around something, now please bare with me as im new to this, but what im struggling to get my head around is how the...

hi there im just getting the final touches ready to my house before i put the insulation down and then have the floor screeded. But can any one please tell me the standard practice on what to do with the cavity between the out side doors and the inside skin of brick work? do they get filled...

i will soon be putting down 80mm insulation with 80 mm screed on top. problem is that in some rooms, there are some large dips in the floor. whats the best thing to use to level these dips so that the insulation sits flat to the floor? i was wondering if sand was any good? cheer jon

it may not make any difference but it would be nice to know the standard practice anyway! do i put the window boards in 1st then the plasterboard reveals or vice versa? cheers jon

hi there what is the standard practice for filling the cavity gap between the twho skins where a door is going. i have bi fold doors sitting on the outside skin and then have 80 mm insulation and 80 mm screed, should i knock the bricks that are sitting proud out and then fill the gap with...

hi there i need to level about 60m2 of my bungalow so that i can put down 80mm celotex which will have underfloor heating then 80mm screed on top, is there a best way to do this? cheers jon

hi there Is there any thing i should be doing in regards to water proofing the stud wall ive just built between my bathroom and my living room. im going to use aqua pannel around the show area, but was a bit worried about damp getting through the gap between the top of the bath and the aqua...

hi there im about to start my new roof next week and need a bit of advice on setting out the slates im using marley melbourne interlocking slates and need to know if the slates on the main roof should line up with the slates on an intersecting roof which is slightly lower, do i simply do the...

im getting close to the point in my build where i will be needing to get the floor screeded . currently the build is one big open space which will be divided into rooms, is it best to put the stud work in 1st and screed each room iduvidualy or is it best to just have the whole area screeded...

hello again im soon to start on my extension and am looking for any advice people can give me on my best options for building the flat roof in the attached pics, i know the easy option is a flat roof with furrings on but im going to zinc clad the flat roof and would realy like to get a good...

just want to clarify one point if any one would be so kind about to re-slate a pitched roof with wood sarking on , am i right to 1, put vertical batterns over the wooden sarking 2, breatherble membrain over vertical batterns 3, horizonal counter batterns 4, slates if this is all...

im just starting to get me hewad around the whole roof insulation thing and i have a few questions. most people seem to say that a warm roof involves having the insulation above the rafters, is this correct? secondly after looking at kinspans web site i founf the info below, and what im...

hi there im just starting to plan out my new single story with flat roof extention and need some advice on the lintel to use above the 8ft bifold external doors!!! in the pic attached they give instructions for a pressed steel lintel and an rsj, because there arnt many courses of block work...

hi again! i want to clad my house in a few months with marley weatherboard cladding and am currently learning all the basics, the thing im stuck on is the window details ive attached an example of what i think is right, what i want to acheive is the american new england look, the issue is in...

hi there need some suggestions on a propert im about to buy. the building with the gable roof is the origional building and the front of the house, the flat roof is an extention, i want to do somthing radical with the building as i hate flat roofs, ive mentioned in another post about zinc...