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    Levelling/skimming old brick wall before cladding

    The wall it sits against continues and is exposed above the garage roof, at front and back, and against the void below the main house suspended floors. So if left totally bare it'd leave a reasonable heat path around the new insulation layers. It's not getting full insulation, just a 25mm layer...
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    Levelling/skimming old brick wall before cladding

    Yeah, I definitely wouldn't be hacking away at the bumps, thinking instead I'd build up the dips with a bit of mortar/render. I agree expanding foam would be hard to do without it expanding everywhere and making things worse. It's maybe not a huge issue, but I'd always understood it was good to...
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    Levelling/skimming old brick wall before cladding

    I'm converting my garage and have removed the old pebbledash from the (now internal) wall between house and garage. The brickwork is ok, but a bit uneven - brick faces protruding/recessed by a few mm in places. It was obviously built like that as there was variation in the thickness of the...
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    Feasibility of extending garage by 1m

    Hi, I'm quite far on with planning what was to be a fairly straightforward garage conversion with small utility room extension. My wife has now asked about the feasibility of also extending backwards by 1m. I have a structural engineer lined up but he's on holiday and is expecting to come back...
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    FiremanT that's really helpful, thanks for the pointer.
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    durhamplumber OK fair enough, thanks for the advice. Definitely agree the back boiler's inefficient which is why I want to replace it down the line and not with another back boiler as previous owners did, but configuration of the house and current plumbing makes that a decent sized job in its...
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    durhamplumber... thanks... Reason I asked on here was I want to minimise how much I waste. I've got to do something, so I've got 3 options. Replace the whole heating and hot water system now (potentially involving borrowing to do it sooner than we wanted so that'll waste the interest etc)...
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    Thanks both. FiremanT - several hundred quid wouldn't be the end of the world. Cost of stripping and re-rendering the chimney is probably at least that especially with access etc. And then would need access again (more complex next time) to demolish it in a few years time. I think we're OK for...
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    Thanks Rob, even that's helpful : I wasn't even really sure if we were talking "big job" or "little job" (for the flue bit, I've a sense of what'll be involved in the masonry / roof bit). I'm more used to water / ventilation where it'd be fairly straightforward to expose the pipe, cut into it...
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    Feasibility of re-routing back boiler flue to remove chimney

    Hi, First, I realise this would be a job for a registered gas fitter and a building warrant if I wanted to go ahead. Just looking for opinions on whether it's worthwhile at this point. We have a Baxi back boiler, still with a few years of life left, with flue running up the chimney. It's one...
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    Foundations for small timber extension in restricted space

    Hi, I'm planning a small (2m x 2.5m) timber-framed utility room extension on the front of the garage / side of the house. The driveway is only just over 2.5 metres wide, with our house and the neighbour's converted garage either side. So I'm wondering about the likely best / most cost effective...
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