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I have a double garage with a room above which always seems cold. The garage ceiling consisits of plasterboard on 6inch joists with 20mm chipboard flooring to the room.The space between plasterboard and chipboard is filled wth fibreglass insulation. The room has 170mm of fibreglass in the...

Thinking of doing a garage conversion. It is a block garage with pebbledash. Was thinking, to maximise internal space, would it be feasible to use insulated blocks (like this http://www.quinn-buildingproducts.com/quinn-lite/ ) to built the front wall, and save on thickness of insulation. I...

Hi I am slowly turning our attached garage into a home gym, largely because we can't easily get the 5 series in there and open the doors enough to get out! Its link detatched, so our garage is connected to next doors garage, you can see the breeze block wall in the last image below between...

Hi all I am about to insulate about 2/3 of my garage into a fish house,but i am going to insulate the garage floor that is concrete.Been doing some reading and there are 2 methods that i can go down first is putting down 2x4joists on the floor then insulating in between with polystryene and...

All, Good Morning. I am looking at converting a standalone brick and flint garage into a 2 bed holiday let. One of the questions I have is the insulation of the existing concrete floor. I was looking to install a damp proof membrane, 50mm of insulation board and then 22mm chip board floor...

Hello I have a single bricked garage external to the house with a concrete floor. As far as insulating the walls. I have been told semi permeable membrane, celotex/kingspan 75mm boards, polythene sheet, plasterboard all in wood studding. Is this about right ?

Hello I want to insulate my external garage to use as a games room it's roughly 4.5m squared I have a concrete slab which was laid on a dpm. The walls and ceiling are to be insulated for the floor I wanted to put down a water proof membrane on the slab followed by 100mm jab lite insulation...

HI all , I hope someone can help with my dilema ? I am wanting to batten out and insulate my single storey single brick skin attached garage ,the house is a 1960's semi. for use as a gym/ utility room, not a habitable conversion I have a couple of questions regarding the insulation aspect ...

I have an integral garage with one single skin outer wall. The garage is always freezing so I want to insulate this wall and and a radiator. I’m thinking of battening the wall with 63mm timer and adding 50mm celotex then foil backed plasterboard. Do I need to insulate the pillars? Does my...

Hi I have a double garage separate from my house. I want to insulate it so I can use one half of it as a workshop (to build model planes) and also as a gym. The other half will still be used as a garage or to store gardening stuff in. My preference is NOT to separate the two halves as I...

:? Hi Have an extremely cold bedroom above the garage extension. Any advice on how to insulate this ceiling/floor would be greatly appreciated - just bought the house last year and just reallised there is no insulation in this position regards :P

Hi there, first post here! So I've just bought a reposessed house with what I thought was not much work on it. The garage for some reason doesn't have a proper floor on it. I've been trawling the internet with what to do, and just want to make sure I've got it right. Is the process a layer of...

I'm looking to cheaply insulate my detached double garage. It's a single brick wall construction with a tiled pitched roof with a membrane underneath. I use the space in the pitch for storage so don't really want to loose that. I'm just doing the basics at the moment. Insulating the single...

I have 200mm knauff rockwool insulation between my joists in the garage with bedrooms above, its not plasterboarded yet, would you think thats sufficient as its all I can fit in the joists or would you recommend adding further celotex then plasterboard it or am I wasting time/money? I also...

I have a garage door here - its a roller type door. I've sealed most of the draughts - whats the best way to insulate the door itself, as it is not insulated. Any recommendations? (See images below) Image 1: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvxDFgUHUgNC1kcDmGWmLEpV_hsw Image 2...

Hello has anyone insulated a flat garage roof with no air gap so felt wood 20cm of fibre wool vapour barrier plasterboard ? I am horribly confused I have insulated the floor all walls trying to turn my garage into a heated workshop so it will have a radiator providing heat most days. Everything...

currently have a single brick detached garage. flat roof (new). slab floor. a) i intend to insulate the slab directly on top with some sort of insulant. then flooring timber on top of this. (WILL THIS BE OKAY)? b) what do i do to the walls. i need to keep the wall as thin as possible but...

Hi all, Looking for some advice and help please. House is a 70's build, with existing cavity wall insulation and good loft insulation etc. 80% of the garage ceiling is under an external felt roof with nothing above and 20% of the garage ceiling is directly below a bedroom (circled in red in...

I've done an extensive search here, but still confused about how to proceed... Single block construction, pitched roof slated garage, rendered on the outside and painted. Looking to insulate my garage to make it more comfortable as a workshop and to prevent rust on tools etc. The roller...

Hello all, Im just at the last stages of my house project and I just have the garage to sort. As my garage wouldn’t be used for my car and the kitchen is tiny we thought it would be a good idea to split the garage in two and use one half as a utility room. Now this is very much DIY and...