Recent content by MisterBoy

All the walls are solid 75mm timber. To clarify I don't want a sound-proofed room, I just want it to be as acoustically insulated as if there wasn't a massive hole in the wall. So it seems like regular insulation wool (non-glass) sandwiched as you and others have said is the obvious answer. I...

yeah makes sense, I don't want to surface mount anything I just want to fill in the 'cavity' - there might well end up another white-board on the other side

I am repurposing a log cabin building, it was originally built with this large opening in one of the internal walls: In the new use, a large whiteboard has been added: But obviously this is terrible for noise between the two rooms. I want a low-effort way to insulate the hole in the wall -...

as simple as a 110mm push fitting for a few quid, maybe additional sealant as it's permanent?

I've a building with a room formerly containing two toilet cubicles and a sink. The toilets and sink were removed and the soil pipes basically just bagged and taped over. They exit through the floor (not the wall), immediately (<1m) join the main soil pipe run from another toilet (which is being...

Next to my old garage is a brick-paved triangle the length of the garage and just a couple of meters wide at the end. Someone clearly just put it in as decoration, you don't walk or drive on it, but it's been buried under leaves and moss the last few years. I got all the loose stuff off, the...

How does it hold up - guess you just stretched it over and stapled?

We had some steps built up to an outbuilding, they used modern railway sleepers dug into the slipped ground for the frame filled with gravel. Look nice but unsurprisingly the wood is slippery when wet, and when we got frost it was treacherously covered in black ice. I’ve looked at grip strips...

as far as I can tell the clock loses its setting every time you turn it off at the wall which is irritating but that isn't the problem, I'm not running it with a schedule but a constant low temperature (10C) as the building is not in much use and the weather is so cold. It runs fine after...

I had 4 Consort LST electric heaters installed in a small office building almost exactly 6 years ago - the PLSTi1500E model. A week or so ago one started beeping constantly when using the building after the Xmas break - it's a simple repeating beep about once per second which continues...

I bought a lovely teak table a few years back. I researched and chose a product by Treatex, and carefully applied it as directed. It looked beautiful but after a couple of months started to peel off. I contacted their support and ended up painstakingly sanding it back and reapplying even more...

Yes of course, that slipped my mind. Ye gods.

I would like to have a log-burner installed in my period living room - it's an 1860s brick house with a large chimney breast. Putting in a modern slate hearth and panelling out a rectangular recess with fire-board wouldn't really fit the vibe of the room but that's how I've always seen it done...

It's fairly classic symptoms, and confirmed by the professionals who inspected in person so not sure what point a photo is going to prove.. I am asking - on the presumption it is RD - to what extent it needs to be "cured", or can it be managed in more traditional ways.. ventilation, breathable...

Why do you reckon that?