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    Boarding out single skin outhouses

    Thanks for the advice. This is a new one on me so just to be sure; 1. Fit a breather membrane to the wall, (held up by screwing the exterrior timber to the walls). Is this same breather membrane as roofers use? 2. Mineral wool insulation in between timber. 3. Plasterboard. OR 1...
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    Boarding out single skin outhouses

    Thanks for the advice. I thought about using insulated plasterboard but a bit expensive, will prob go with celotex etc. Interesting you say put polythene sheet on between plasterboard and celotex? What stops the damp penetrating the brick wall and saturating the celotex, (or which ever...
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    Boarding out single skin outhouses

    HI I have a collection of single skinned rooms joined to the back of the house, (a coal shed, utility room, toilet). All constructed on a single brick wall, (ie; not cavity wall). I'd like to make something out of these but being single skin, concrete flor and flat roof they are COLD...
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