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I believe the current recommended depth of loft insulation is 270mm of mineral wool. If you are wanting to use it as storage you might also want to board it out, or at least in parts. Once you are up there you will also be able to see if you need to do any work on the roof. Have fun...

Hi All, We are renovating a victorian semi and have decided we would like to finish the floorboards for much of the ground floor. After much research (and plenty from posts on here) I have decided that the way forward seems to be to use one of the OSMO products. I thinkwe will be wanting...

Hi All, So went to see the BCO on Friday. As some of you predicted they were OK - seemed a bit grumpy at first at being confronted with a couple of DIYer's but once he saw that we had plans and a reasonable idea of what we wanted to do and what was required he warmed up a bit. I think...

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand of roof window? or in fact any of the non Velux brands? Do you really get what you pay for? or are Velux now trading on the longevity of their name? Thanks all, such a fab forum! hopefully one day I will be able to asnwer...

Hi All, Just trying to rough out a layout for the kitchen in our renovation project. We hopes to fit the extractor, the regulation height of course, on the chimney breast which is on the party wall. The closest outside wall is on the left, about 2.5 meters distance for the ducting to...

We had a structural engineer out to do calcs and plans for the removal of a structural wall, and we asked him to check these walls too. They are definitely not load bearing, in fact if anything they add load to the roof, he said. Will have to see what BCO says about pushing the walls back...

Thanks FMT, sorry I missed your post, must have come as I was replying! I think I've got myself in more of a flap over this than any of the other work we are doing because this seemed so simple but then I started reading all the stuff about conversion regs etc. I assume the gable end...

Allegedly I did a similar thing with a pot of zinc and castor oil cream and a brand new cream carpet...... :o

Thanks for the quick reply. I guess putting additional rooms in could be considered 'making worse', will look into the escape windows for our designs. We were definitely going to do the mains linked detectors throughout the house. will we need to prove its orginally 3 storey?

Hi All, My partner and I have just started what is turning into a massive renovation project on a 3 storey late victorian semi. I have been reading here for a few weeks now as we have been planning and doing work, much excellent advice to be found, thanks! PArt of the work we are planning to...