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    PIR and Rockwool combined in garden room

    Hey everyone, I am just about to build up the insulation layers in the walls and ceiling of a garden room that I am building. Moving from outside to in, I have cladding, then battens, then osb. Then within the studs I am considering using a 50mm layer of PIR, and then a 50mm layer of sound...
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    Garden room lintel

    Thanks 23vc. I will remove that extra stud within the supporting column on the left of the door to allow more insulation and, as you say, to reduce the bridging.
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    Garden room lintel

    Thanks guys. Photo attached of the plan showing 7x2s. Sounds like if I replace that with doubled 6x2s it should still be fine. Is that right? That was my original plan but then I saw lots of folk on YouTube using double 8x2s or steel beams for openings of only about 2m, which gave me the fear...
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    Garden room lintel

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    Garden room lintel

    Hey everyone. I’m just designing the lintel arrangement for the front of a garden room building. The walls are being built using 4 x 2 studs on 400 mil centres. The roof rafters are 6 x 2s also on 400 mil centres, supporting 18mm tongue and groove OSB and 1.5mm EPDM covering. The span of the...
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    Garden Office - Tyvek underneath?

    Hey everyone. I am just about to start building a garden office. It’s being build on ground screws - guys coming next week. I’ll be putting PIR in between the joists, then OSB. Question: any advantage in putting Tyvek underneath the joists and PIR to protect the underneath of the joists, given...
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    NEFF dishwasher not draining - air trap…

    Sorted - it was the flood float at the bottom. Not sure why I didn’t get an error related to that.
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    NEFF dishwasher not draining - air trap…

    Hey everyone. I have a Neff dishwasher which is not draining. I have checked that the waste hose is not blocked - nothing. I have checked the filter and that the drain pump is not blocked by some debris - nothing. I’ve now replaced the drain motor but still the drainage problem remains. What...
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    Honeywell Galaxy 16 Plus Fault code

    Hi All I have inherited an old Honeywell Galaxy 16+ alarm, fitted by ADT. Yesterday night my teenage daughter set it off (!!!!) and it now won’t allow me to reset - it’s showing ‘Call alarm co. Quote code 33466’. We don’t have a contract with ADT and they don’t want to help. And we don’t know...
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