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Hi Guys, So to give you an overview, 1930 semi-detached property with solid wall (no cavity) - I have had a porch built in front of the original exterior wall, door and window of the house. The porch has been built to the spec of a proper extension, insulated floor, insulated cavity wall and...

Hi there, I am in the planning stages of having my downstairs bathroom redone and it is downstairs and it is a suspended wooden floor in the winter the floor does get cold. As i am going to have marble flooring this could get very cold in winter months. The bathroom is pretty small and the...

Hi there, I have a 1930s semi-detached house which i recently purchased. I have discovered that there is a draft in the 1st floor/ground floor ceiling void which can make the floor cold and also draft up into the rooms from the skirting. This house has solid brick work so is not the drafts...

Hi all, I recently purchased a house which has a conservatory. With the heavy rain and blustery winds I have managed to discover a few some-what “minor” issues. Why the conservatory to my surprise does warm up pretty well and keeps the heat in for an acceptable time I noticed a draft from...

Hi all, I have a 1930s semi detached house and while doing a number of things to the house with the floor boards up in all upstairs bedrooms there is a draft between the suspended floor upstairs/down stairs ceiling. There is a bay window at the front of the house which has a small roof which I...

Hi there, Early this summer I purchased my 1st property and for the initial 3 months carried out a lot of renovation work which included plastering and where necessary boarding 50% of the property around 70% has been rewired (so having had all carpet and floorboards up at one stage in most of...

Hi there, I have a 3 bed demi detached house which has the bathroom downstairs under one of the bedrooms above. In the bedroom above i have 1/3 of the floor boards up as i had some new lights fitted along with an inline extractor fan. The joists are 15CM deep with the ceiling below...

Ok I have purchased a house recently and have had fire rated GU10 down lights fitted into the master bedroom. It is now winter and there is NO insulation in the loft and im freezing my arse off so want to move forward with insulating my loft. To summarise: I have 3 bedrooms upstairs only...

Hi there, I stripped the whole bedroom and removed all the plaster back to the sand cement scratch coat and had the whole room plastered. It has been left around 2 weeks or so and i have finished the mist coat (Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt white mixed 50/50 water). Generally speaking all has...