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Wooaahhh!!!!! Steady guys :shock: :shock: some people just dont like the hearing the truth (out of my arse or not dingbat - its true! :P ) dingbat appears to dress up in womens underwear at the weekend - i've not checked this out but it might be true so surely its worth saying :D...

The floors have 30mins fire resistance because if theres a fire downstairs you dont want the floor to burn through or drop away in just a few minutes or youll go from a nice cosy sleep to dropping into the middle of a roaring 600 centigrade house fire. when the plasterboard is penetrated by...

what book have you got plonker? sounds interesting Premdor are a largish door manufacturer - try google they make loads of different fire doors including 6 paneled - very common style infact! call them and ask for local stockists Door can swing either way - just not near a staircase

cavity wall insulation is a legal requirement in a roundabout sort of way. If is brick/cavity/block construction then some insulation would be needed (50mm for 0.45?) as others said, when newly constructed the walls need to meet a minimum U-value (in 1993 it was 0.45 - i think the value...

dont you mean 'if you live in a very unusal house.....you might not need hoods but if you live in a normal house with a normal ceiling and floor then you do need them (but not if the lights are in the ceiling to the roof space)' but if you didnt mean that sorry (but thats what you should...

Best thing to do is not let it bovver you :D

the paint aint important the 2 layers of plasterboard give you the 30 mins fire resistance

the loft hatch you put in should be 30minutes fire resistant minimum i think Timloc do 1hr rated fire hatches

Fire - Should be ok for 30mins fire resistance when you add the 12.5mm plasterboard over the top. Sound - its pathetic - but if your neighbours lofts are unconverted you dont need to worry :wink: as your not adjoining another room Heat - add a layer 0f 50mm Celotex directly against the...

just a few points- the 75mm fibreglass would need to be changed to celotex and a vertical dpm provided to the walls the 75mm fibreglass in the roof would need to be changed to celotex and doubled in thickness. the roof will need to be properly ventilated (eg 50mm soffit strips on...

the SE is the man for the job - particularly if its complicated (which is where the architect would send it if its anything other than simple) cut out the middle man and save the handling fee :wink:

noseall nose :lol: or you could boss on an access to your internal svp

1.Move the manhole further up/down the sewer run so its not inside the building 2. Add rodding access to the base of your SVP (so you can when you need to in the direction of flow) 3. change the connection from you SVP run to the main sewer run to an oblique connection (so it discharges in...

cor if you have an 8" step down into garage conversion what is the floor level difference at the moment? single steps used to be a no-no (is the one who says no step an old boy?) but now they ok is there any other factor that the buiders are thinking about? say "you cant have a step...

Gary "he is not doing it to Regs its but we will be doing the best job possible" that sentance is somewhat of a contradiction :? . The Regs are the very minimum safety standards - the best job possible would be way in excess of these standards. I take it that your not going down the...