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I am in the final stages of agreeing to buy a house and having serious second thoughts - I have some joint problems that flare up when I'm cold so a house that is difficult/expensive to heat would be a bit of a nightmare for me. The house in question is a 1930's semi - has double glazing but I...

This is probably a really silly question so apologies in advance....just noticed a house I'm in the processes of buying has patchy different coloured bricks at the side of the roof along the chimney cavity: https://ibb.co/1f8164n Is this indicitive of damp problems or anything? There was a...

Actually just spotted there is a total of 35cm width between the plasterboarded and bare brick sections of the garage. If the mounted plasterboard is taking up 17cm each side can we make a guess as to whether that’ll be insulated to some extent?

Overall garage size is 10 by 20 feet / 3 by 6 meters. The garage has been split into two rooms, the plasterboarded room and then a storage room behind it about 1.4m deep that is just the exposed brick.

Nah it was granted to convert the existing garage to a home office - think there might have been a line in it about changing elevation too which I presume means the new flat roof they so why a few grand on. The garage itself I believe was built in the 80’s at the very latest.

Yes it’s a detached garage and the estate agent did say I shouldn’t consider it a habitable room. It’s a hobby room which I guess might be difficult/expensive to heat for a chunk of the year. Still far more useful to me than a bare brick garage. My other fear tgat it’s maybe not been built...

House I'm looking to buy has a garage converted into an office/studio room, pictures below...it looks like they did a very good job and it still looks fresh despite the conversion happening 7-ish years ago, but the more I read about the steps necessary to do this kind of thing correctly (load...