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Hi, hoping someone could clarify the best way to deal with this... I'm looking to board the ceiling in my garage and insulate above with rockwool rolls. On the sides of the trusses are various light circuit and socket circuit cables clipped to the truss. How am I best to deal with the presence...

Thank you - am looking at rockwool rolls rather than polystyrene etc. Will pop over there to dig further. Heating definitely a consideration, not quite got into the weeds for it yet, but vague thoughts around seeing what impact an oil filled electric rad on a WiFi switch has (i.e. can switch it...

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...

Urm... 35 x 70mm on 600 centres... (n)

I think I'd be banned from the garage permanently if I got a woodburner in there before sorting one in our lounge first! Motivation to get cracking with house jobs though... :ROFLMAO:

Did you paint with epoxy paint or anything? Was wondering about flooring at some point next. The up and over doesn't really have seals, did you add them or were they part of the door?

Sorry, missed that bit in the description! I'd been leaning towards insulation at the rafters to keep the useable space on the joists, but realistically it's mainly for cr@p and I haven't got much up there! With pragmatism in mind, I'm thinking I'll probably plasterboard the ceiling, insulate...

Gotcha, thanks. I'm not sure how I'd be able to seal the solid boards to the walls? I may be over thinking it, but I'm picturing a whole mess of angles and the joists getting in the way of taking the boards right to the wall

Thank you for the replies (I seem to have missed the notification of any replies landing!) In terms of how much to spend, it's likely a case of attacking it piecemeal, I'm not sure my wife will be happy with me siphoning off all the funding for new decking to do the garage throughout :LOL: I...

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...

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I do keep coming back to this... I think my problem is not knowing how that works around the door frame, window and radiator?! Can't seem to find a good description of how to deal with those bits which makes me a bit wary

The base is very sandy, a pleasure to just scrape out for wiring channels! Not sure if that makes it particularly good or not, this type of wall is a bit new on me (1970s lightweight clinker, with this sandy base and naff/old skim - plus two or three layers of horrible wall paper...) The base...

Ahem... Urm... Might have started with one... Until realising the plaster was bad enough without steaming it off the wall too!

A solid point on the plaster, hadn't got round to finishing chipping off the rest of the loose stuff - bit worried how much more will be coming off! Any recommendations on products to use? I wasn't sure whether the patching would need a different approach to general skim Cheers

Hi Have stripped wall paper and with it came a lot of plaster in some areas... See photo below! Looking for any advice on filling the gaps and 'refinishing' the wall for painting... I'm all ears! (y)

Cheers, I'd had that one crop up a couple of times in searches but hadn't kept it. Decided on a stud wall, acoustic insulation slabs and soundpanel in the end. Any thoughts on if I should lift the floor boards and screw the sole plate into the joists directly? Boards are running parallel to...

Hmm... as soon as I've posted this, I'm wondering why I'm planning on screwing the studs into the wall?! If I'm going to put a sole/top plate (made up terms!) for the stud framing anyway, I might as well set the whole lot 10mm/a minimal distance from the wall surface itself...... I fear I may be...

So... this is a bit of an off-the-wall question (no pun intended... ;)) I'm looking at putting up some soundpanel/insulation between the party wall (1970s semi) in two of the upstairs bedrooms. Want to lose as little space in the rooms as possible (the noise isn't awful, just a bit noticeable...

Hi Ree Thanks for the further pointers, it's more that I wasn't even sure how to identify a soakaway so didn't know if it was one! First property was a flat so just starting to fumble my way around outside maintenance! Had a look in nearby manhole, but the rwp is downstream so I'm not sure...