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I ended up using 180mm coach bolts and some rawl plugs. 180mm not 160mm as I could not add up before! Seems to hold perfectly! Cheers Ferg

Hi, I've a kitchen wall cupboard to attach to a brick wall, that has a 100mm insulation + 9mm plasterboard, dot n dabbed onto it. I've searched on here a bit about this, but although lots of posts about plasterboard, I cannot find any over such a distance. This is my idea, is it...

I would not be too sure that I understand ;-) There is a fair fall (although done by eye rather than measured. Plus the two stone flags are not actually mortared down yet, so I can add some more with some slates. They are on two courses of bricks higher than the surrounding ground (concrete)...

This is an ex-brick coal shed, that I am converting into an office. The floor was raised (or rather will be risen) to include a layer of insulation, and so the door step is now 2 courses of bricks, with 2 stone flags on top. Rather than add a further wooden sill to the door, I was thinking of...

Hi Dextrous, thanks for replying. The flags are (or will be) set to fall, so any rain will drain off them. Cheers Ferg

Hi, I'm just in the process of fitting a door to my nice new coal shed to office conversion. However, the actual door is fairly low on height. Rather than get a custom door made, I'm thinking of cutting a groove into the stone flags that will form the door step (with angle grinder), and...

Bad etiquette to reply so soon to your own topics I know.... Kingspan have recommended that I use a breathable membrane under the corrugated sheeting and above the TR31 boards. Cheers Ferg

Heyho, (my first post so be gentle!) I'm renovating a brick shed's flat roof as part of a conversion to a garden office/workshop/den. The shed has a slightly sloping roof of 3x3 Metres with a pitch (if you can call it that!) of about 3 degrees (one wall is 2 courses higher than the...