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We are having our basement waterproofed using a Cavity Membrane System (Delta). The defacto choice after that seems to be either metal track, plasterboard and skim, or stud work, plasterboard and skim. We have a rather complex wall shape in our basement - chimney breasts sticking out, 225mm...

...I will of course be getting the building inspector round to check up on each stage, I just want to get a head start on finding out whether I'm going to have to start planning for lower ceiling heights or not. I'll be a little gutted, but underpinning sounds expensive :-(

We are in the process of excavating our basement room - only to gain another 200mm but because we need to allow for 300mm of slab/insulation/screed we have had to dig down 500mm. At 400mm we have reached to top of the concrete footings that the house is built on. What are the regulations...

I'm in the process of building a light well for a basement conversion. My structural engineer has 'missed' this out from the original statement of work and waiting will put a 3 week delay on the whole project. Opinions on whether or not I should continue with/without the calculations aside...

Its not really a basement, more of a lower ground floor... at the back of the house its at garden level, its just you come in on the middle floor. The weird part of this layout would be coming in and then having to go down stairs to get to the living space. But I'm hoping that's not going to...

I appreciate its not easy without all the details, I was really just looking for more general opinions on things like master bedrooms on entrance floors, the importance of an en-suite in a 4 bed house (at the cost of room size), family bathrooms on a different floor to the bedrooms etc I...

We're about to renovate our newly purchased house, and we're having trouble deciding on the best layout. We are only going to live in it for a few years, so we have one eye on keeping the layout popular for potential buyers rather than just for ourselves. Hence why I thought I would ask what...