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I have added xtratherm insulation boards to the back of our garage doors to help keep some heat in the garage. This morning I went out to have a nosey and noticed some condensation on the foil tape. It is specifically sitting on the tape stuck to the garage door metal. Obviously it got very...

Hi all, I'm anticipating the answer is b"how long is a piece of string" but hoping I might get a steer in the right direction... I've got a detached garage built c.2000, 5.6m x 5.4m, pitched roof, 2.7ish floor to rafter, 14ft x 7ft up and over door, metal side door. Cavity walls, brick...

Need a new door in my garage, been looking at insulated roller doors which seem to fit the bill. But what about manufacturers? Hormann and SWS Securoglide are both supplied by local installers, but which is best? Any opinions please?

looking to start insulating my self built timber garage...frame is mostly 2x4's,sheathed with osb and will have a 12mm internal lining was going to use 100mm kingspan or the like....til I saw the price :shock: Can anyone suggest a more suitable(read "cheaper") alternative?....I've got the...

Hi all. Moved into a house last year and was after some advice re insulation. The owner before us had the garage knocked down and replaced with a downstairs office (plus small loft space above) but after a particularly cold winter, it seems that it may have been a cheap 'no insulation' job. Any...

Hi, I've got a bedroom that sits on top of a garage (attached to the house). The bedroom has two external walls. Adjacent to this garage is also a kitchen. Now both of these rooms are generally much colder than the rest of the house. The garage appears to be a single brick skin with no...

Hi all, I've recently moved into our new place with a nice integrated double garage. That big ol' door lets a breeze in and the warmness of the house out and there isn't any insulation in the joists to the bedroom above. The ceiling has a lovely new plasterboard and skimmed ceiling so...

Hi again I have read posts here and elsewhere regarding the insulation of a detached garage. On one hand, it seems ok, after laying dpm, to attach sole plate of stud wall to concrete floor. On the other hand everyone seems to say that suspended floor joists should be 150mm above concrete...

Hi, I'm looking for a bit of advice. We have a concrete slab pre-fab garage and I was wondering if you can insulate them - or is it a waste of time to do that? The roof is asbestos cement, where the roof meets the slabs you can see outside. Would the roof need insulated too and would...

Hi, A previous owner extended our house and put an extra bedroom over the garage (around 15 years ago). The problem I have is that this bedroom is the coldest room in the house. When we moved in we put a new central heating system in including radiators so the rad should be the right...

i am thinking about converting an integral garage into habital room the difference in floor levels is about 35mm at the new doorway the bco has asked about insulation in the floor there is no insulation in the existing garage floor are there any options other than taking up existing garage...

Before I plasterboard the ceiling in my garage I need to put some insulation in, there's a bedroom above. What would you recomend? I was intending to stuff the voids between the joists with rockwool type insulation and then a 1" layer of kingspan prior to putting on the pink plasterboard...

Hi there, I'm converting our garage into an office and the garage already has a false floor with a 46mm cavity but with no insulation. I'm going to cover it with liquid DPM and wanted to add some insulation between the floor and the false floor, but not sure which is the best approach. I can...

My daugters room is above the garage and very cold in the winter. Is it ok to use normal wool type loft insulation under her floor? The type of insulation I bought was called space blanket and encloses the wool type stuff in a big plastic/foil bag. I bought it and then read on the package...

Hi All I wondered if you could assist me please as I am in the middle of insulating the ceiling of an integral garage/utility room and making a bit of a hash of it! There is a bedroom above the garage which gets cold. I have put 100mm of PIR between the joists right up against the floor...

Hi is is it possible (and will it help more importantly) to add insulation to the fire timber door from house into garage? photos attached for reference thanks Chris

We have a single skin blockwork wall between our utility room and integral garage. I want to add insulation to the garage side of the wall to bring this up to Building Regs. From research the method of insulating externally is to bond PIR insulation to the wall, then add a mesh and finishing...

I have had a small single storey extension built off the back of the brick single skin garage. The 3 new walls are insulated cavity (brick & block), the roof is insulated and the floor is concrete with a dpm. All 4 internal walls and ceiling have been boarded and plastered. I need to insulate...

Hi I have a c.5.6m x 5.4m double garage (double up and over door, pitched/trussed roof) that I'm looking to make warmer, but have a couple of bits I'm not sure on... My plan is in two parts 1) erect a stud wall splitting the garage in half side to side leaving two c.2.7m x 5.6m sections (it's...

Hi, I'm hoping for some advice with insulating a up an over garage door. I want to be able to use the room to keep my reptiles in but it's obviously too cold as it is, I was going to brick up the door and put a window in and convert in to a proper room but as I'm in a hurry and on a budget I'm...