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Acoustics are a bit of a dark art, it's very easy to spend alot of money and not really achieve anything (or in some cases, make it worse!). As the above question, can you confirm what you mean by a timber wall?

As said above, anything can be done if you have the budget. The lintel above the dining room door would need replacing with steel beams spanning from the right hand wall to the kitchen column. Assuming you're leaving the column there, the existing lintel put in over the kitchen opening to take...

I've just installed these but as has been said above...it's a bit of a slippery slope. If you're not willing to go the whole hog and ensure that everything is fully sealed to allow no sound through, then you may as well just use standard plasterboard. To be at their best, they should be on...

Most things are possible with a big enough budget. It doesn't look unrealistic, some steel beams to pick up the walls above. What is the construction of the garage? What about the roof of the workshop/store? As they'll be internal rooms within the house, their insulation properties probably need...

How deep is the crack? Is it just in the render at the end of the lintel?

As above, you need to get advice from a structural engineer. They will need to design the connection between existing steel and new cantilevered beam, the sizes of the new beams, assess the existing walls, and advise on the provision of padstones. In principle it's do-able though...Are they...

Evening everyone :) I purchased a house a couple of months back which I'm in the process of bringing up to scratch after many years of things being "fudged" to get to what the previous owner wanted to achieve. The previous owner had created a staircase up into the loft space, and built a...