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Thanks. So if someone wanted to use interior insulation they'd need an air gap etc ?

Is this a cavity wall under the tiles? We have a similar age home that has 2 "pillars" at each side of the house with windows set back between these pillars . We had a pebble dash inset from the ridge (gable of house is front facing ) down to above the living room window. It's now rendered ...

Thanks noseall. Not sure how the elderly bloke who lived here before us managed with it.

@^woody^ Could we extend that step by creating a brick frame in front of the existing step and then lay pavers over the frame and the existing step? We've got one of those circle patios out the back with steps up to it and we didn't appreciate how the steps were constructed until we too some of...

Thanks Woody Re extending the existing step do you think the fact that it's above the DPC matters ? Was thinking of a composite door as UPVC doors all seem to be panelled and we don't want that. However , my parents have a black one and it tends to stick in the summer. We get l afternoon sun...

Hi. We're making changes at the front of the house, ie getting rid of all block paving apart from the actual drive . Plan is to gravel and plant and create a sleeper and gravel path . This square extra section of paving in front of the front door matches the drive whereas what we've taken up...

At the front

Thank you. I understand. He spoke to a builder who was working in our area . That was only 2 weeks ago and "workman" turned up on end of last week. The builder comes every morning and stands on the drive and chats for a bit The 2 blokes doing the work could be described as zoo escapees . One...

what do you want to use it for? What's going in there? Just the washing machine ? If that's the case and nobody's going to be going in and out a lot to check clothes in a dryer or use the loo, then is it worth the expense of connecting it to the house? We've just got rid of the garage door at...

Thank you The Home owner is changing that window to a flush one apparently. I don't care about his weathering (and he won't care either) I just don't want any walls or the roof to come down onto any of my family or our property. yes , skew nailing at both ends of the rafters. What's the...

neighbour has blokes replacing his flat garage roof with pitched roof. Single brick walls with a utility room at the back .. Pictures aren't the clearest so apologies for that. The old roof covering is still in place. the covering is done, as are some of the joists , especially at the very...

We created a bump out into the bedroom part. It was the width and depth of the door, plus about 100mm, The door opens into the bump out rather than into the en suite or out into bedroom floor space . We put built in wardrobes either side of the door bump out so we didn't lose anything...

Did you contact Building control or planning? It's building control who deal with building regulations? We had an existing utility area at the back of our garage when we bought the house ( 1960s) It was single brick and had no insulation or heating. Wasn't a useable space at all. We looked at...

Do you know what the plants are? If they're non evergreen perennials they usually die back in the winter anyway so what you're looking at could just be last year's growth. As others have said, depending on the plant they'll start getting new growth in the bottom soon . I've lost my Tea tree...

My first thought was where is your DPC in relation to the block paving ( and the wall)?

Thank you for clearing it up

Thank you I think you're correct about it feeling warmer when the rads are convecting ,regardless of the room temperature on the stat. And yes, maybe the Neomitis does have fewer cycles on tpi. I'll try and take note. More difficult with the boiler in the garage The Salus instructions were...

Thank you for breaking it all down! Seems I'm a dim wit as I can't see anything in the don't think the boiler ( a Potterton Titanium 28) does have opentherm , but it is fully modulating. Too much going on in the elderly parents department ATM and feeling somewhat , but I'll attempt to answer...

And the other thing I'm curious about is something that the Salus called " span" which could be set to either 0.5 or 0.25 ( °c) No such info about the Neomitis but reading around maybe it's 1c ? No wonder we're feeling chilly The best temp control and " comfort" we had was when the Salus...

I posted recently regarding our non functioning Salus wireless thermostat. The bloke replaced it with a Neomitis RT7RF Plus. Not been that happy with it as the optimisation mode doesn't seem to work and there's only the option to pre set 2 temperatures, ie one for "eco" and one for "comfort"...