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Want to be higher than 2m.

Morning all Live in a semi, with a 2m hedge on my side of the garden next to a small waist height party wall. My neighbours have exhibited some anti-social behaviour, hence I am looking at what can I do that is still not going to be against any regs. What can I do? If my hedge goes above 2m...

Don't obsess with U values, they are a statistic based on a lab, with the sum total of efforts getting to what you want, e.g., seals, door/windows/floor etc etc, but your priority is a working space, hence I would 1. Sort floor first, pull everything out whilst we have good weather, 50m Celo'...

Im guessing that's to pay for the awkwardness of work for the remaining 2 days they can't easily get gainful work for?

Called a recruitment agency, contacted a local college, not heard from college. Called a mate who's got a business, awaiting his input. Agency willing to help, issue is charging VAT, and need to pay up front, looking at 16 per hour ish. I am lucky in that can work from home a bit, so can be...

This is worth a read for a long lasting way to do the walls. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/garage-conversion-inside-wall-construction.233260/

A single skin garage isn't watertight, especially with a flat roof, as there's no overhang from the roof, so in wet weather the single skin gets wet, draws in moisture, hence so many people having issues with their garages. That means that eventually the frost and damp will pop the bonds on the...

Plaster backed board is expensive too, the walls with suffer water ingress through wind riven rain, the adhesive will fail. You need ventilation in the void that you create. Get some roof battens, apply to wall, to be super careful, put some dpm beind the batts. Line the concrete floor with...

Morning all Took out an old chimney in front this this rear wall of the house. Left in bricks that tied into the rear wall, so far. Took out top two last night, turned 90 degrees and put back in wall. Can i just take out all the lower ones in one go and rebuild the wall from the base up...

All, Doing a small residential extension on my house, wouldn't mind getting in some reliable help for ad hoc tasks. Anybody done this on theirs? If so, how have you gone about finding some help. Wouldn't be weeks worth of work, just a week here, next stage wait, then another week, etc...

A latex paint is essentially a vinyl, hence it is a more wear resistant paint that will take a scrub. I am not sure that you want to be laying that on too quickly post plastering, and if an older house, the walls maybe better off left to breathe with a porous paint finish as opposed to painting...

Age old Question One new Shed Need to keep it lovely and dry, so will be well insulated, and with a heat recovery unit in it and small greenhouse heater. Thinking 4mm SWA to it, question is, can I lay in undergrowth round perimeter of garden (hard to access) or, do I dig a 450mm trench in the...

Got planning, for rear extension, needed as side wrap around too and playing safe with process too. Looking at starting work soon, thinking of making rear projection of wall about 0.8m less than approved planning, so smaller footprint (worried garden patio will be too small relative to garden)...

Wessex, thanks, the existing foundation is pretty shallow, hence realistically I will go deeper than the existing. Sliding through makes sense, just messy.

The neighbour laid an egg when I went for planning. Police were called as he went started threatening me and the planning officer on a site visit. The planning officer was genuinely shocked having not seen before. This is an effort to not have to get near our shared wall.

Well, for you to sell this, make it someones home, then it will need BCO sign off on the regs (among other approvals) The biggest two issues will be: - Structual stability of the existing slab, how deep, strength, DPM etc - Thermal performance, likely to be next to none if a garage...

Morning all In an effort to appease an angry and concerned neighbour over a single storey extension at the back of my house (being a semi) then a structural engineer has drawn up this. My question is, how do I build it? Lay the concrete first, put the hoops in drilled holes and resin glue them...

Standard foundation, with inner block leaf going up, probably light weight blocks. Outer leaf could be block work too, the out of sight part, and clad with air gap behind to create that look. Issue is the inset of the wall from the stepped edge you have shown. You may get away with timber...

Insulation won't help with damp, in fact, in some instances, it can cause it if unlucky if it restricts airflow and doesn't permit the escape of moist water carrying air. Just simple cavity batts, I am sure left over from another job he has on, and you will be fine. DPC being maintained as...

I think I am going to dig a test hole. Also tempted to get a surveyor to evidence the condition of my property soon too before any work. Then, architect has suggested a raft foundation, costs a bit more, but won't mean I have to engage with neighbour.