Recent content by mushymat

Hi All, We have a sizable double garage and Im thinking of converting one half into an office. My current plan is to do this with zero structural change to the garage*. Ill basically will be putting in insulation (it's a single brick building), plasterboard, and nothing else, it already has...

Our house has never been warm. I know it has cavity wall insulation as I've come across it while drilling holes and having a wood burner installed a few years back. But how good is what we have I just don't know. There could be voids around the house, I simply don't know. And what is in the wall...

Ah, so do you have to arrange to have the gas turned off to do this, and if so how do you go about that? - thats what Ive been told anyway

Ive not looked in detail (I will when Im home) but Ive been told the metal box wont alow for the Bluetooth/Wifi connection to be made to the smart meter - its a reasonably common issue with older builds I belive

Sadly that won't work for us - we are looking to take advantage of a reduced night time tariff which we need a smart meter for. So really the boxes need a total replacement (as they are metal)

Our Gas and Electic meter boxes are in a bit of a state and need replacing. In addition to this, we had an engineer visit a while back to install a smart meter and couldn't as our boxes are metal. my confusion lies in who to talk to with regards to getting them replaced - is this a simple...

Okay, Im not a total idiot but still... I have a large double garage which already has a partition down the middle - other than that is single brick, concrete floor construction with two single-glazed windows. Building a stud wall/adding buttons to the walls is a piece of cake. Where I'm a...

I have a double garage which is actually divided in two. One side is already insulated, the other side is not The side that’s not insulated is storing wood that’s used for my wife’s business and needs to be kept dry, currently we have a humidifier running more or less 24/7 which is not ideal...

I have no idea! Ill find out though next time im in there

Ah, "ashlar wall" Ive been struggling to come up with a name for that! but thanks! What you say makes perfect sense. Super helpful

Our house has always been cold... In an attempt to find out why I popped my head into one of our crawlspaces in our lost conversion. See attached image - Looks a state. We have about 15 meters of crawl space like this that needs to be insulated. Below this section is our living room, but it...

Long story short,,…we have a loft conversion (came with the house when we brought it) with loft space that runs along the side, these are small spaces but I have access. There are 3 sections, more like crawl spaces but each about 12ft long. In these crawl spaces we have a single layer of...

Hi All, We have two rooms, roughly 55m2. I've had a couple of quotes, one slightly above 2k and the other just under, both from well-known carpet supplies. Obviously £2k is a lot of money and if that's the cost it's going to be that's the cost it's going to. But at that cost Id be a fool not...

Hi all, Let me just say improbably, almost definitely going to get a plumber in for this... So, our Grohe (low pressure/pumped) shower unit has gone pop, it's old, and Grohe no longer supports it. So time to buy another. we were thinking of this one - Mira Platinum Valve & Controller...

I wish, This place was left to me, yes thats great but actual money in the bank is non existent at the moment. In 3-5 years things will be a different matter Im sure, but right now, nope. a lot of the cills are rotten though, some of the windows too. The mold/rot has been painted over multiple...