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Hi all Have boarded out my man cave in the garden inside with osb 3 board I'd like to paint it to give a bit of extra light. I'm not bothered about having a smooth finish, I'm happy to have the osb rough finish, I'm just wary about the paint being sucked in and blowing the board or...

Am i right in thinking that if i fill the void between the roof joists completely with PIR insulation (6 inch) this will in essence eradicate the cold void and remove the need to ventilate the roof space?

Insulating a Garden Room..... Stud is 4x2, wrapped outside edge with breathable membrane then 19mm T&G nailed to studwork. Kingspan on the inside walls - do i fill the whole void ie 100mm Kingspan - or does there need to be an air gap? Same again with the roof - its a flat roof done in...

Hi all, Im all but going to build a "shed" for a pool table in the garden. ( just got to convince myself to spend the money) I want to use this all year round naturally.....so should it really be insulated? Ive priced up for (from outside in) wavey edge baton tyvek housewrap (any...

I havnt put the actual L/N/SL/E connections in the picture if this is whats confusing matters..... the grey lines are the 2c+e running from ceiling rose to ceiling rose loop in loop out, green lines are the 2c+e running from ceiling rose to light switch The red line is a new 3c+e that i...

I am going to put 6 downlighters into my kitchen replacing the existing ugly strip light thats in there. I have traced all the current wiring and have drawn up what my new cabling will look like after ive replaced the strip with spots. I am happy with it all apart from im not sure how to...

Hi, Im looking for a new bath. Currently got a 5mm acrylic P shape 1500 shower bath but its so poorly made i want it replaced. Its that thin on the bends that you can see straight through it! Im after another 1500 P or L shape bath. Any installers out there recommend any good...

Is this No Nonsense stuff you are referring too? http://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-professional-masking-tape-blue-25mm-x-25m/59867

thanks guys

Hi all, I have to do a lot of griding of the conrete floor in my living room this weekend. I have only recently repainted the LR (6 weeks ago) To protect the walls and ceiling from the dust i want to cover them in polythene dust sheets that are masking taped up. However im woried...

Ok. Damp cpmpany came around this afternoon. He said (ill try to remember and get it right) I have a DPC for the brickwork walls. I dont have a DPM under the concrete slab in the main house (the kitchen extension will have as it was mandatory when it was retro built) My DPM was...

@WoodYouLike I have my suspicions over these tiles anyway. What is there purpose of being down in the first place? Could previous owners have known the DPM had failed and they laid down a covering of these bitumen/vinyl tiles as a DPM layer? Some of the tiles were broken/missing...

Yes dries rubbery. How about if I used a surface dpm paint/epoxy, then use the polyurethane resin as a final top layer of dpm protection, to then lie the underlay and laminate on to of? Is there any product(s) you would suggest? If I have no dpm at the moment, would the concrete slab...

Digging up the floor will be my absolute last resort, if no surface dpm can be used and be adequate. Unless I can twist my insurance companies arm, then they are welcome to do it! I have a damp company coming over Thursday afternoon to have a look at it all. So hopefully we will have...

double post - phone had a spaz!

I'm 90% certain I can rule out pipes. Cental heating doesn't lose pressure, although there is 1 pipe buried under floor in door way ok kitchen to affected living room. Looking at service points and where my main inlet water tap is I SE no reason why a Mains water pipe would run through the...

Apologies. At back of garden is a new ish estate (latte 90s) Detached neighbour has same sized back garden and is virtually all soil and plants ass he grows veg. Pretty level. Attached neighbour, same size garden, all grass, slight gradient sloping towards house, but only very slight...

No just the grass is at a higher level. The slabs between the grass and the kitchen where I took the photo is just slightly below the thicker mortar line that runs around the bottom if the house. The side of the house again is just slightly lower. By slightly lower, I am talking 2/3 cm at...

Front is lower than dpc. Back garden (grass area) is higher, patio level is slightly lower. Front is half tarmacced drive, half stone drive Picture above is of back garden

Ground id wet outside as that patio area is covered but if the rain comes in at a right to left diagonal then it catches the first row of slabs. Gutter and drain for the kitchen extension roof is there so no water sits there