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I'm in scotland and my foul drainage currently goes to a septic tank however I have recently discovered that there is a combined sewer system in the village. From digging some exploritory holes I have found that there are 6" clay pipes taking the roof drainage on the east and west side of...

This is the type of kitchen i'm after. I need to speak to the person again, because the quote i got had a unit with 1x141mm front and 2x283mm fronts. if they are these heights then the overall length will be greater than the unit height. (including the spacing needed for the profile) I'm...

I'm putting together a new kitchen. I've got all my carcasses in place and I'm tying to get drawer fronts. The style of kitchen I'm going for is the handle-less style with an aluminium profile so you can get your finger behind to open the drawer. The problem I'm having is this. The carcass is...

I'm on a mission with my house to keep it warm and dry. I've just finished attaching 75mm kingspan to the walls, and in the process of placing rockwool between the joists under the floor. This is not a nice job as my crawl space is just about enough for me to lay flat on my back in some places...

It's the Knauf Ecosse wool I have. I've touched it with my hands and it itches. I think I'll do a test run with this material and see how it goes and then make a decision about the non ichy stuff

I suppose I can just take a Stanley knife to the bottom of it before I put the mesh up

yeah I was going to leave it encapsulated.... What are the issues with this?

Lifting floorboards seems like a lot of hard work! I'm not the biggest guy and quite slim so I should fit. I'm anticipating it getting hot but I'll just do it a bit at a time

My proposed method is: 1: Cut rockwool to size to fit joist width 2. Wrap rockwool in vapour barrier (this could be anything, plastic sheet is cheap though) 3. Go under floor and fit in between joists 4. Fix to joists or use mesh to secure The main reason I want to wrap the rockwool up...

I've already bought a few rolls to do a trial run. I'm not going to be putting a vapour barrier along the bottom of the joists. I just going to stuff the wrapped rockwool in between the joists and then stick a few nails in through the plastic to keep it in place. If the nails fail then I'll use...

I'm planning on heading under my floor to put rock wool between the joists. There's not much space down there, maybe 50cm max to bottom of joist. I'm not really wanting rockwool all over my face under my floor! My plan was to wrap the rockwool above ground in a cheap plastic vapour barrier for...

I'll post a picture when it's done, but i'm not sure how long it going to take me! i tend to go through phases of doing a lot, then not much for a while. when you're working full time it hard sometimes to do diy when you get home

I'm not sure, never used a stop bead! What would you suggest?

I'm not sure, never used a stop bead! What would you suggest?

Here's a pic of the opening. I want to leave the back and sides brickwork, and render / plaster the walls. I'm going to put a wood burner in the recess so need to keep a min distance for plaster / flammable material. I think for the edge around the opening i will use a stop bead as I'm not...

http://www.diynot.com/forums/building/brick-under-render-crumbling.290926/#2118522 Here's a pic of the exterior of the house when i was getting the render removed. You can see the red bricks are crumbly. I thought this was due to water penetrating the render and the freeze/thaw action...

The house was rendered when I moved in with a roughcast render. I've had that replaced on the west wall as it come away from the bricks. What i've seen now is that this will stop the brick 'breathing' and therefore start to deteriorate them. If rendering is bad for the bricks why is it basically...