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Does the house have one air brick or one air brick that vents into a conservatory? One airbrick won't do anything; the air needs an inlet & an outlet so only having the one wouldn't be very effective. "As a rule of thumb, Manthorpe recommend following the NHBC guide that ventilators should be...

As above, get agreement from the landlord. A colleague of mine was living in rented accommodation & struck a deal with the landlord whereby the landlord paid for all of the raw materials & the he (the tenant) did a DIY refurb of the place without any labour costs. Win Win

If the sound is being conducted directly through timberwork then fluffy material won't help; the fluffy material will help to absorb energy from sound waves travelling through air, but not through a solid medium. It's equivalent to convection and conduction in a heat transfer situation. Your...

"A thermal bridge, also called a cold bridge, is an area of a building construction which has a significantly higher heat transfer than the surrounding materials." E.G. If you were to have timber joists poking through insulation. As opposed to hanging your joist hangers off the PIR board of...

Hallo, I'm in the process of acquiring an older mid terrace with solid external walls. We would like to put up internal insulation on the solid walls. There isn't any evidence of damp, I see Kingspan K17 can be dot & dabbed. What are peoples thoughts on this VS putting up batts? If i went with...

You don't need a threaded rod connector if you're using rod; the easiest way I can see would be to drill clearance holes in each of your end plates, then put a large washer and a nut on either end of the rod, so the washers bear out against the end plates, and the end plates are free to slide...

You run the router up the face of the base rail, so it's not going near the steps...the T shaped bit would cut a slot in the side of the base rail from above. I'm picturing a router running along the top of a plank of wooden flooring and cutting the groove for a tongue to go in to. Looking...

Hi Folks, I've been lurking here for the last week reading anything & everything and have found some of the info really useful. Now onto my hair brained idea: I saw a hot press / airing cupboard recently with a 450 x 900 indirect cylinder in it, but the cupboard had plenty of unused room...

You could do it with a T-Shaped slot cutter on a router, just space out the router guide to give you the correct depth...