Hello - hope some of you experts can help as I'm under pressure! We're in the process of buying a small old very damp house. Need to remove and replace all external concrete, repoint with lime and re-render with lime and have been recommended to plaster with lime inside. Budge won't run to lime plaster inside, so we planned to knock off all plaster, leave stone walls bare and let them dry out then maybe paint with distemper at some point. So the costings have been doing my head in and then I came across building regs! And then I found the house is in a conservation area which I am hoping means the building regs for insulation won't apply - at least outside. We don't want insulation on the walls - we want to keep the original character. The walls are stone - about 2 to 3 foot thick. But I guess they could say we have to insulate inside - if we did there'd be no space! Plus the idea is to let the walls dry out not seal them in - especially as ground levels are low at one side and against someone else's yard.
So does anyone know - do building regs still apply to re-rendering and insulation if you are in a conservation area? Likewise we were going to re-roof with like for like re-using stone slates - but if we have to start putting loft insulation in there won't be a roof space.
Any help gratefully received. Oh and not to mention the cost of all this insulation! And on top of that I don't like insulation - I'm asthmatic - would rather just wear 2 woolly jumpers.
So does anyone know - do building regs still apply to re-rendering and insulation if you are in a conservation area? Likewise we were going to re-roof with like for like re-using stone slates - but if we have to start putting loft insulation in there won't be a roof space.
Any help gratefully received. Oh and not to mention the cost of all this insulation! And on top of that I don't like insulation - I'm asthmatic - would rather just wear 2 woolly jumpers.