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Thanks Deluks, Thinking of building up the opening and putting in a window to match the rest of the house. Do you think my plans for the floor will be ok?i plan to bring the liner up and in front of the sheeting on the walls. If i kept a gap between the wall and stud do you think foilback...

Hi Guys, I'm thinking of converting my garage into a playroom. At the moment it consists of 4'block walls and concrete floor. I'm planning to fix a waterproof liner to the walls, stud frame about an inch away from the wall, insulate with polystyrene sheets and line with a 12.5mm foil back...

Have just spoken to the sparky and told him to do it. Many thanks

Thanks for that, I'm planning to channel out about an inch both sides of any wires and am also going to box around any downlighters and line with 12.5mm plasterboard

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Yep, a Hall way, shower room and kitchen.

Thanks Mark, Make sense what you say. the reason i would like to use the polystyrene sheets is due to being offered them for free. I have fixed some trial bats between the new studs and it does improve the sound and thermal insulation both on the wall and suspended ceiling. I agree rockwool...

Hi Mark, The room is going to be a games room for kids. I know i could leave the cavity empty on the walls as the exsisiting walls are a good 12 to 24 inch thick ( stone), but i feel if i am able, i might as well infill the spaces between the batterns to warm the surface up a bit. The ceiling...

Hi Folks, I am going to battern out a room and plaster board and skim it but am thinking about inserting insulation between the frame work for a bit more insulation. I was planning to use 25mm (8x4 cut down)polystyrene sheets. ( the same stuff used for the floor to insulate below the...

Thanks guys, Qualified last year in NVQ 3 Bricklaying and Carpentry,have been doing alot of property maintenance work and landscaping, but now planning to move up to extension work and conversions, put feel i should gain regs practices before i take on work.

Thanks Fred, I thought it was 2.4 m for a room. I don't know if you can help but i am trying to get familiar with building regs with regard to such things as constructual facts , ie, when fire proofing, where does it say use 12.5mm plaster board then skim to meet regs rules, Does the Regs give...

I am planning to fix a suspended ceiling, what is the minimum height for a room from floor level to ceiling.

If you notch the old fence post and pull it out, and if the old footing is deep enough you can also drop a new post into the old post hole

Go with it, give it 3 coats painting the opposite direction each time, then on the last coat whilst it is still wet, throw sharp (holm) sand on it to give the render a key, When rendering just don't bridge the DPC which should be sticking out by about 3/5 mm

Rake out ( clean out mortar) to a depth of about 15mm and clean out dust etc. Us a mix of 1 cement 1 line 5 building sand, not to wet, fill joints using pointing trowel allow muck to go of a bit the joint finish either with a jointing iron, (concave impression) or recessed (morter sits back 3/5...

It coll, called map cracking, it's just the plaster has dried out quickly, plasterer wil moan and grunt but if he's any good will not be an issue, two coat skim will sort it.

Could get over this with broken bond

Hi , Tell the window fitters to stick to fitting windows. Just tape the joints with scrim tape (jointing tape) and any good plasterer will give it a two coat multi finish skim. The only reason its cracks is if the boards have not been fixed correctly (Movement). Better off using plaster board...

Why not build up a 9 inch block wall, (4 '' Blocks laid flat) say 3 or 4 high, cap on the top with what we call 'Brick on edge' which is as it is said uusing the pavers from the drive, and render the blocks and paint , just the render.

i've done a similar job, with regard to the chipped edge i fixed screw in wall ties, a bit like half a wall tie with a thread at one end. You drill and fix a raw plug then screw in the tie ( Also known as starter ties) into the original edge, fix your shuttering and fill with concrete and...