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by darrenbeech
Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:17 am
Forum: Building Regulations and Planning Permission Forum
Topic: Solid wall insulation and building regs
Replies: 4
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Re: Solid wall insulation and building regs

I'd do it if you can as we didn't insulate the solid walls on our house and suffered terribly with condensation, ruining the decorating we'd done. We then insulated room-by-room (only the external walls) and the condensation has gone as the new plasterboard isn't a cold surface for the water to coll...
by darrenbeech
Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:51 pm
Forum: Building Regulations and Planning Permission Forum
Topic: Replacing External Wooden Staircase With Metal and Regulations
Replies: 0
Views: 2758

Replacing External Wooden Staircase With Metal and Regulations

We have some old timber stairs to the first floor on our garage (which is separate to the house, so not a dwelling). I would like to replace these with safer steel ones. But the current timber ones are pretty steep and I wonder about not meeting regs. Can I just replace the timber ones with steel an...
by darrenbeech
Mon Aug 22, 2016 11:03 am
Forum: Flooring and Floor Coverings Forum
Topic: Carpeting and Laying Board over Concrete Floor
Replies: 1
Views: 1987

Carpeting and Laying Board over Concrete Floor

Our lounge has a concrete floor (nice and dry) there are some channels for central heating pipework that I can't move. I was thinking of putting timber sheeting over the concrete, over the channels, with some of them moveable so I can access the pipework if I needed to. Then wanted to put underlay a...
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