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So which timbers are you planning to replace? Have you considered repair or sistering?

I wonder whether it behaves differently if you use the computer WhatsApp app rather than the website?

Are these hot pipes or cold pipes?

I don't think you need the smartphone at all once it's all set up

My WhatsApp number is the same as my decades old pre smartphone Nokia number. So you might be able to set it up with one of those, assuming you have one? Or maybe borrow a smartphone, put in your mobile SIM, setup WhatsApp, then put everything back

My WhatsApp number is the same as my decades old pre smartphone Nokia number. So you might be able to set it up with one of those, assuming you have one?

I think of WhatsApp as the slightly poor relation of Signal...

Is that the Home Mini?

As far as I know, OctopusWatch gets it's data from Octopus, rather than directly from your meter, so if you splash out the couple of quid or so it costs, you can easily check every couple of days if Octopus are getting readings from your meter. I find it a really useful app myself.

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Insist on a survey?

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(As an amateur) I'm confused - is this a ventilated cold loft or an unventilated warm loft? It looks like a weird mixture of the two at the moment ..

Speaking as an amateur: Why not just put the new joists half way between the old? Is the SE asking for bolts and noggins? That all seems a little OTT to be honest, unless you're planning to bathe in plutonium. You might find (with advice from others on here or look at span tables) that having...

I would concentrate on insulating the sound coming from next door into your underfloor (sideways), and not worry about stopping sound coming up into the room from under your floor (upwards), so I wouldn't be trying to sound insulate anything other than the edges of the underfloor

Reading the original post, the nature of the sounds heard are airborne, rather than structure conducted, so less of a problem than you might think.

I'm wondering if there might be a misunderstanding here about the direction the sound is travelling. Is it that the sound is coming sideways from rooms in the house next door?

Is there much insulation above the plasterboard?

If you have wall cupboards above work surfaces, then LED strips under the cupboards at the front, work really well in our kitchen. We've also run LED strips around the wall-ceiling meeting place to replace downlighters, which replaces the fluorescent strips really well.