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Hello: Despite being warned it was going to be very time-consuming, I decided to strip the paint off my 1978-built stair down to bare wood. The idea is to have the treads natural wood, and paint the risers. The stairs had been painted with multiple layers of gloss over the years, nut only...

I fully agree it is a grey area, but mine was always intended to be a temporary solution, so I won't be investing neither lots of money nor time in implementing it. All I want to do is lower the U rating of my conservatory from the existing stratospheric value to something half decent so that I...

That does look very nice indeed, and thank you for sharing. Fitting a stove in the main living room was always a plan of ours (we have almost unlimited supply of wood as we live next to woodland) but I admit never thinking of one in the conservatory. With our house being two floors, the...

Ahh, I like the idea of the wood burning stove :-) I'm guessing you had to change at least on roof panel to something that could handle the heat, correct?

Thank you Masona and Richard C for your comments. It never occurred to me that a temporary ceiling will render the conservatory an unauthorised structure. If the issue is related to the 75% translucency of the roof (which technically will remain unchanged), I see little difference between...

Hello all: We recently bought a house that came with a uPVC conservatory with polycarb roof. The place is rather nice now that it's neither hot nor cold, but I foresee it being a freezer in winter, and will be a shame to lose the space completely for so many months. Considering any type...