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Hi, Has anyone used Marmox Boards. We need to use something that insulates the exterior wall in the new shower room. Aqua Panels need to have an air space behind them and will need a stud frame using up valuable space and NO insulation. Whereas Marmox are insulating as well as being able...

Hi, We are digging up an old floor in our old property. Taking out the existing tiled/concrete floor - digging out 'rock/shale' down to 8-10" putting in new dpc, concrete slab, 4" of Celotex, question/query is can we lay 'joists' on top of the celotex with T&G floorboards or should we put...

Hi, we are replacing an old concrete floor - two layers of tiles on about 4" of concrete, it did have a thin DPC all ontop of 'loose earth' (on the piece we have dug up so far) though we may find that the next part of floor maybe onto solid rock shale...Having to do in two stages. This floor...

Hi, Not sure if I've put this in the right thread. Bit of background on the house. We have an old stone farmhouse (traced it back to 1850, but it's older than that) walls 600mm thick - rubble stone (not good quality stone) which has been spar'd over in the 1960's. Interior walls - think...

Thanks Tony, It means OH can trim back and make good the doorway and then get on with Architrave and skirting tomorrow. Got keep cracking the whip....christmas is fast approaching.

Hi, We've had planning permission for our ext; a wet room/utility with a bedroom in the roof above; we have a small difference in floor height between existing floor and the bedroom - 2" from board to board (going to carpet bedroom but the old floor will be as is T&G planks.) The door...

Some fires are balanced flues and some are flueless depending on model/type of fire, so a conventional flue is not always required. As for installing the fire we shall use our local plumber who is 'corgi' (not that name now) registered. In fact OH is ex-builder - so while he knows how to do...

Thanks for being so quick :lol: OH can get on with it tomorrow :D :D at last...

Hi, We have built an extension with the lounge upstairs (no chimney) we had hoped to move our existing woodburner to the upstairs but due to the BC regs 'combustible flooring' and having to have a stove pipe stuck up above the roof line etc we have abandoned this idea. Instead we thought...