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Whats the best option for a floor to bring the garage up to level with the house. The existing concrete slab sits about 150mm below the flooring level of the house. I was planning to fix a plate to the wall and run joists and fill the the space with solid insulation slabs. But the building regs...

I am planning a garage conversion. To raise the floor height to the rest of the house I am planning installing a floating wooden floor with PIR underneath. What size wall plate should I be looking at, it's about 4m in lenght? I am thinking of fixing it to the existing wall with steel rods and a...

I am planning a garage conversion. I intend to get a builder to brick up the front of the garage and install a window but to save money do most of the internals myself. The garage has a solid concrete base, walls are 2 courses of bricks and then thermalite blocks. I plan to have a suspended...