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Thanks all, it already has the boiler so I was going to add a radiator for clothes drying. I’ll just crack on

I was thinking of just doing it, but wasn’t sure if it would affect the sale or insurance one day, we hope to live here atleast 10 years though, probably longer

Hi, I’ve recently moved into a new house, it’s a typical 1930s semi with attached garage. It currently has a door into the garage with a simple sliding wooden door. I want to convert half the garage into a utility room, it would be about 2.8m x 2.8m. I understand this would need to go through...

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Thanks for the reply, it does have a very narrow cavity and has a sort of asphalt / tar damp course from what I can tell? There is no manhole anywhere, yes I have solid floors, I believe they were filled in around 30 years ago, it has a DPC sheet, concrete and then asphalt. Thanks! I know...

Thanks, few photos attached as you suggested

I have an 1890s terraced. At some point in the past it's had a concrete rear yard and then flags have been laid on top, all right up the the house. To help with damp, I remove around 100mm of flagging around the house, this appears to have helped. Now I've since had my kitchen sink moved and I...

At the moment condensation is happening on the cold interior walls of the bathroom, by introducing insulation, I am worried condensation would now happen at the next coldest point (the cavity). Maybe I am wrong, just something I have read.

Looking to purchase some of these to replace the tiles in my shower, do you have to use the internal corner profiles? Or can you just butt the corner up and silicone it? Just to make it look more like tile?

Thanks for the reply. I like this idea but am worried that adding insulation will move the dew point to the cavity, meaning my cavity will get wet and it isn’t ventilated. I was hoping by building a stud wall and adding PIR, I could add a full moisture barrier to the whole wall before...

Thanks everyone. What would be the best option for external walls that are just going to be plastered? Should I still use the XPS board and skim over or is there a better or cheaper way?

I’ve currently got a Tornado ST100T Silent 100mm wall fan, it comes on with the light and runs for 10 mins after. I’m concerned about moisture penetrating the boards with it being in a bathroom, that’s why I was considering studs, pir and then a vapour barrier over it all?

I'm looking for the best option on insulating my bathroom, it's a Victorian terrace (1895), it has cavity walls (very narrow cavity). The 2 options I am looking at would be, - Insulated plasterboard straight onto the walls (worried about the break in the built in vapor barrier at each join)...