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a cooker hood at 30 litres / sec or extract fan at 60 litres . Must be ducted to fresh air , hopefully you already have a suitable trickle vent in place

Excellent advice imho . I would want to see his insurance cover too . Act now !

I would never buy a house that has had that stuff anywhere near it. Proceed at yur peril The work of the devil imho

I guess that there is no foundation under the central wall that has now been loaded up , and they want a beam spanning side to side bearing on a known loadbearing structure

If you had fitted another 10mm to the roof insulation to make 280 mm, you would have achieved the presently required U value :wink: I would be tempted to provide a suspended ceiling , with the void packed with quilt . This will also help reduce any noise nuisance that you may suffer...

As a comparison , the 100mm of quilt you put in is half what meets the minimum building regs requirement of today. As others have mentioned I would check for draughts , if you do add another skin of plasterboard i would seal the perimeter edges first , and of course tape the joints .

something similar came up a few days ago http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=111018

is the 50mm screed depth the cover on the pipes or total depth , and was any mesh reinforcemnt placed in the screed

Ask them if the external block skin is a concrete block or not ( I bet )

you need extract to fresh air , the recycling hoods are long gone as suitable Either an extract fan operating at 60 litres / sec or a cooker hood extracting at 30 litres / sec will satisfy the nice helpfull man

Make sure it is a 1/2 hr fire door with a self closer on it , that there is either a step of 100mm down to the garage floor , or a threshold providing the same , close up the cavity with an insulated cavity closer and that you fit a lentil , IG L1/s or similar You "should"...

Petrol on a cloth and vigourous rubbing . Avoid smoking at the same time :lol:

I would harrass the engineer firstly , he needs to visit site and see the situation first hand , The question i would be asking is "why has he asked for a 337 pier to be built off a 215 wall ? Then i would be asking of the builder why he deemed it ok to build off the floor / plates ...

In that case i cant see that it is the fault of anybody else concerning the garage. So that you are properly informed, I would speak with the block manufacturer for a categoric yes or no as to being suitable for receiving render. It still miffs me when i see people speccing anything...

Personally , whenever i spec a block to be rendered , it is always concrete . check the block manufactureres recomendations I think that blaming it on expansion gaps for the kitchen worktop is a bit tough , why doesnt the gap on a fitted U worktop break out if thats the case . Who...

Be interested to know what blocks were used , assume they were rendered .

I would be more concerned as to what the remaining piers are , and what they will be sitting on . You will most likely need to enter into party wall agreements with both neighbours

Thanks for the input guys, hard wired it will be

I need to make a choiice for the sparks to install on Friday , Obviously he is leaning to wireless due the reduction of install and effort. Any pros and cons would be appreciated Thanks

we had a similar problem , on a Boulter unit. Our fault was the control box