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Thank you. Cutting a groove in the floor might be doable - will have a look later on. I'm thinking I need another 20 - 30mm depth at the far end?

More positive news.....Emailed LABC and they are happy for us to proceed building the mini wall with window direct on the slab as is (no foundations needed) and the floating floor will be ok with just 50mm PIR which was the max thickness we could fit in. That gives us confidence to stick the...

Hi all, About to convert my son's garage to a kitchen / diner as below and would really like to move the washing machine in to a new mini utility as shown. The existing garage floor is only 73mm lower than the kitchen floor so basically we are looking to install 22mm chipboard flooring sat on...

Just back from a proper measure and hopefully good news - Drilled in spot shown and it took all of my 400mm long drill bit and still didn't break through. Checked with a hooked wire and was nice smooth bore all the way down. If this is therefore suitable to build directly on do I need to prove...

Thank you Woody, Avoiding foundations would be most attractive, I'm just off to fully check the slab and walls out and will report back. I can only get max 50mm PIR under the raised floor - I see there is Kingspan OPTIM-R type stuff but as mentioned above BC showed no interest in the floor on...

Cheers - yep I'll be going round with the drill shortly to suss out the depth of the slab. My usual floor approach is building sand, DPM, PIR and glued T&G too. It's just there is only room for 50mm PIR which I am not sure if that is suitable, but then what are the alternatives? TBH in my own...

Thank you - I agree on the drawings front but key issue is timing. I am on 2 months garden leave and can therefore potentially save my son a lot of money by doing the bulk of the work myself, but it recently took B.C. nearly 3 months to approve a friends drg submittal and with the holiday period...

As per other thread the kitchen / garage wall is non-load bearing so my son is going ahead converting garage to a dining room and I would like to do as much as possible to help budget-wise. Have done 2 of my own in the past but not done the front wall before and was a few years ago. Pics again...

Thank you all. Just got back from there having cut a hole in the ceiling and stuck my iphone up...... and the wall is totally non-load bearing.... well apart from supporting a rogue piece of muck ! A nice easy knock down and patch up job meaning they can have hopefully a flush ceiling. Just...

Thanks all. Now I've looked closer I'm wondering just how little load there might be on that wall. Below shows the 1.5m wide opening (green lines) I'm looking to cut out and the red lines shows the run of the plasterboard fixings - so if they are direct in to floor joists up above this could...

Thanks all - I was hoping there would be a middle route. I'll go see some merchants in the week. I've always used USB's but will check out the lintels, makes sense if they are more readily available. Thank you.

Late response but I previously did the same and went through building regs. Woody / Mr Rusty are spot on in that there is a balanced approach. I'd add in to that balance how "attractive" you want to make that room, if a dumping ground then not so important but it's often worth really doing up a...

Hi, Have converted 2 previous more complex garages in own homes and got Structural guy in to do beam calcs and all went through regs no prob. Now considering my son's house and much more simple in just taking out red highlighted bit approx 5 foot wide, wall is thermalite with minimal loads...

Thank you, yes the lined part is the downstream section - and I totally agree rerouting that gulley near the corner would make sense as it will intersect on the newer unlined upstream section. Next door is exactly the same, had a recent survey when they moved in and were told their same sewer...

Thanks for the replies folks - Now Ive looked closer there look to be some kind of liner going on. I'm thinking that will hamper installing a normal sleeved type junction? Would I be better off putting in a complete new concrete base / brick manhole affair, or is there a particular way of...

We are combined here - houses built in the 70's. The existing loos, bathrooms, kitchen appliances and some rainwater downpipes all drain in to the sewer shown, flowing in from the left hand side of the photo - I'm now moving the washing machine to the right hand side of the photo but to the...

Thanks - that black grid gulley and the rainwater downpipe are all under approx 10sq metres concrete so will be near impossible to find where they go. Based on my suspicions when we did work elsewhere on the house they just drain direct in to the soil and original builders didn't bother with...

Have to admit I always removed radiators before decorating myself but then had some decorators in to do my kitchen and they didn't remove them and just ran a paint brush round the edge reaching in around 2 inches. Looked absolutely fine and left me wondering why the hell I went through all that...

Hi, Am moving washing machine to where the only waste drain option is to go out through wall and tap a fresh connection in to the main sewer running just the other side. Nothing else will ever be needed there so once I'v put the std standpipe / water trap on the inside what is the best option...

Thank you chaps. I've always been wary of humidity having come from an old victorian place. Kitchen and bathrooms here will make ear drums bleed with the suction from the extraction I've fitted :giggle: so I wanted to check if it was something else as there are no other issues elsewhere. That...