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You can buy plasterboard with insulation (Celotex type) already bonded to it in varying thicknesses.

Please, don't spoil my illusion. Its still 1999 in my dream world! You'll be telling me petrol is approaching £3 a gallon next!! :lol:

Thanks, to add to this my house has full fill "loose" cavity wall insulation & I've got this vision of chopping bricks out to retro-fit trays & all the cavity insulation above me come pouring out!!!

There are three or four single storey extensions that have gone up near me in the last three years, all of which butt up to the side of the house. While it is clear that a lead flashing has been used & chased into the exisitng brickwork, there is noe evidence (ie. bricks removed & fresh mortar...

Thanks, I'm going to get a few quotes for EPDM as well. Looking at this stuff it seems to have quite a few benefits over torch-on.

The plan below shows the roof area of my new extension (approx. 27 metres square). All dimensions are in metres. All construction work is finished & I now need it felting. I have had a quote from someone who was going to apply four layers of torch-on (3 plus 1 mineral) and he gave me a price...

I had to do this for my extension as the M/H was smack in the middle of where the footings needed to be! I did it myself using a pre-fab plastic manhole. A structural engineer isn't needed but follow the fitting instructions & the BCO will be happy. The strip foundations will need to invert...

No, just told me there had to be a barrier between the insulation & concrete, despite there being a full DPM under the insulation. As I had a lot of large polythene sheets lying around I didn't question it.

My BCO also told me to put in a polythene membrane (just standard stuff, not a DPM) between the Celotex & concrete slab.

Yes, they sometimes do, but not as often as us. Apparently the builders started to lay the drains to suit five houses & then re-hashed them to suit the seven that were built. Things have improved slightly since we stopped using "Kandoo" toilet wipes for my young daughter (those things don't...

Someone elses post reminded about a recurring problem we have. Our house was built in 1973, it is in a cul-de-sac of three detatched houses & two pairs of semis. Originally there was going to be five detached houses, but the builders "shuffled things round" to squeeze in the semis in place...

Thanks. The first thing that sprang to mind was a garage. The up & over door sometimes has a 9" brick either side (admittedly 9" thick).

Advising me to have a soak away with conifers round it to help the soakaway to work as the soil is hard clay, insisting that there is a minimum of 665mm return on walls (ie. no window can be less than 665mm to the corner of a building). Plus a few other bits & pieces, but seeing as this is a...

Our house was rewired in '99 just before we bought it & from my own limited experience seems to be reasonably well done. BUT, what are the modern requirements for bonding? I would like to ensure that the bonding is up to todays standards. There is a (what looks like) 6mm cable from the box...

I had building regs approval for my new extension back in September 2007. I won't be in a position to have the electrics done until around June this year. As the 17th Edition came into being between building regs approval and the installation date, will the installation have to be to 16 or...

When my BCO came round to survey the site, she used a table of tree types, distance from the building etc, etc. She told me that I either dig down 1.8m if I left the conifers in or 1m if I removed them. However, as some of her other comments have left me scratching my head I now doubt or...

Some friends have aintegral garage that they want to convert into a room. Reasonably straightforward, but there are some questions. The concrete floor is at the same level as the house floor, so this will need to be removed to allow insulation to be used under a new concrete screed. But...

The soakaway would be 5m from the house, but when the house rainwater & the old garage rainwater went into the foul drain it seems ridiculous that I can't do the same with the extension! What do you all suggest I do? The BCO is a lovelly girl but she's straight out of college & is very good...

I had the same problem. My house (built in 1973) discharges ALL rainwater to the foul sewer. The single garage that was on the side of the house also did this. I have removed the garage & constructed a single storey extension but I am being forced to use a soakaway. My problem is that the...

Thanks for that, the only work I'm doing is the physical pulling of the shower cable under the floor as I've currently got the floor boards up. The house was rewired in '98 so I'm hoping it will be largely okay. Knowing my luck though................