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Thanks for the replies, understand what your saying and that it needs heating and ventilation, this has been considered. My original point I was after advice on is exactly the situation you described. The walls are being internally insulated in accordance with building regs meaning the...

Surely that's if those rooms are kept really cold and no ventilation. Bit confused here if your saying not to yet I'm doing this on advice from many others

This is between ground and first floor, I may have missed something but as far as I know it's now good practice to insulate this to reduce heat loss to unused rooms.

1920's solid brick house, insulating internal walls while renovating and taking this chance to insulate between floor joists, but is there a danger of condensation on the joist ends and any advice on how to stop this. Many thanks

Cheers everyone. Wire mesh was recommended as the house had subsidence in the past and although there's been no movement recently it was recommended as a precaution. Only confused over the slump rating as I've not done a floor this big before and the ready mix company insisted I tell them...

relaying the kitchen floor, hardcore and DPC is down, just not sure what 'slump' to order for the readymix for the main slab area is 3x3mm and laying it about 120mm deep, this will have 75mm insulation and underfloor heating in 65mm screed after. structural engineers recommended...

digging up the kitchen floor to re lay and insulate it- currently just 1 inch of cement with tiles directly on soil. plan is total depth of 435mm - 200mm hardcore and DPM 100mm reinforced concrete slab 75mm insulation 65mm screen test pits have shown the top of the footings to be...

using insulated plasterboard in a house, 25mm insulation on 12.5mm boards. siniat advise you can dot and dab this but a mate who stopped plastering 5 years ago says not to. anyone dot and dabbed this stuff- did it work ok? also i've used metal frame before where the floor is concrete...

may be a daft question but how would knowing if there is underground water assist? surely the make up of the floor would be the same. ban all sheds- seen similar and have been thinking about either this or polished concrete- only prob is cost with these. thanks for all the advise guys, i'm...

hit the nail on the head Galoka, its a complete house renovation so having several visits from BC to check and sign off changes progress, plus as i may rent or sell straight after i need that sign off from them to stop issues

thanks for the responses guys, so looking at about 400mm in total. yes i'll be using water fed UFH, so from what you've said put the insulation under the underfloor, and the inital concrete slab directly over the DP

cheers, i'm from north notts, near mansfield. i'm assuming that if they make these specifically for htis purpose then building regs would have no issue with them.

hi, the paint covering the render on my house front is peeling off- its been on for about 30 years! the render underneath looks fine still but quite dusty. after scraping the old paint off, whats the best way to clean this up and seal it so it can be painted again. many thanks

i have an existing downstairs toilet and want to install a small sink with it, ive been advised the best way may be to use one oft these to link it directly into the toilet waste (with a u bend also) but i dont know what its called or where to get one, can anyone advise on this. also would...

had a few quotes recently for a stove to be installed, all 4 companies gave different specifications on the type of flue they'd use, but all consistent in that it needs to be a rigid flue- which inflated the cost as the existing chimney has 2 bends in it. my sisters recently had a quote where...

hi, i'm looking to dig up and re lay my kitchen floor while renovating the house and assessing options and costs at the min. i know the layers are as followed sub base, sand, concrete slab, dpm, insulation, UFH, screed. but can anyone tell me what depths the sub base, sand and slab...

cheers, will move it there shortly. stopped off at a couple of places today. 2 types recommended bal kit wp1 homelux membrane. prob use the membrane on walls, but was advised that using this its likely to completely wreck the boards if you decide to re tile. any way to minmise this...

sorry, cant really comment there as its only been in a couple of months

after advice from a mate and from the manufacturer i've just dot and dabbed. using gtec board and bonding compound. but this would depend on the board, some i looked at dont have a paper backing to do this so need to be studded and screwed, if you dot and dab you still need a couple of screws...

few questions on bathrooms if anyone can help, the shower is enclosed by 1 stud wall and 2 external walls, stud wall is fitted with aquapanel, due to the size of the room the 2 external walls cannot be fitted with studs to support this, if its studded the size of the alcove will not...