loft

Hi All, I'm looking for a bit of on advice. My house (1920's bungalow) is notoriously cold and had condensation issues. I've replace the floors due to wood worm(suspended floor, strip foundation) and insulated with rock wool as I went - this doesn't seem to have made a huge difference to...

Hi all End of terrace built in 1890. Since topping up my insulation, I have a significant build up of condensation on the breather membrane in my loft that I’m trying to fix through: - installing lap vents in between every rafter at the lowest point close to the eaves. - installing a...

Currently in the final steps of renovating a late '70s/early '80s Bungalow. The property originally had a warm air heating system powered by a gas boiler which was vented through the loft space via a 125mm flue and out of a vented ridge tile in the roof. The old warm air heating system has been...

Hi all 1890s terraced house, laid some new insulation in the front half of the house last year, didn’t get round to doing the back half. Just been up there to find loads of condensation at the front pictures attached, non at the back. What do I need to do fix please? Bathroom is at the back and...

Hi I've some Celotex 150mm insulation boards left from flat roof insulation project and looking to use in loft floor which has some old insulation in. Just checking that vapour barrier is still needed and that it is ok to lay as per below image, i.e. up and over the floor joists. The Celotex...

Hi I'm looking into flooring my loft and looking for a bit of advice on how people with a bit more knowledge think I should go with it. I did some measurements and drew up a plan of what's there already. It's an old style house, built around 1969. The dark grey part is the hatch. The...

Can anyone recommend on what to do with this? We have lived in the house for almost 2 years now (newly built 2020) Never had reason to go in the loft at all as we cannot use it as storage, but went up this morning and found that one of the blocks on the gable end has half of it missing, not...

I've just popped into the loft to get something out, and found little black dots covering pretty much the entire space. They're not evenly distributed, and are relatively new (last couple of months - we had a hot water cylinder installed at that time, and they 100% weren't there then). They're...

I have an existing stud wall as part of a historic loft conversion. The plan is to move it back to increase the room space, insulate and turn it into cupboards rather than loft space. As far as I can tell this wouldn’t require planning or building control. Is this the case?

A few years ago, I fully refurbished my house. During that time, whilst ceilings were down, the builder replaced the joists in the attic in preparation for a future loft conversion. Plumbing and electrics were also brought up and a staircase was also fitted. All of the above was done to meet...

Our internal soil stacks are attached to external vents on our roof and the felt has not been sealed around the pipes. The wind howls through the attic space as there’s plenty of ventilation at the soffits and along the ridge line. See attached photos. Is this a standard / best practice type of...

Hello, hoping someone can help please. I saw on another forum (old thread therefore not getting a response) about the following regarding floor joists in a loft conversion - “I gain 4 inches of head height by using the existing 4 inch floor joists (instead of new 8 inch joists as is the normal...

Hi there, We've just moved house and I'm about to sort loft insulation in the property (it's between the joists but not across - and certainly not up to the 270mm we want to aim for). A couple of questions if that's ok: 1. Any suggestions on which type of loft insulation? We are looking at...

Appreciate this has been discuss before, but looking to see if there is any updated advice. I bought a 1970’s built 3 bed. Before moving in we had some skimming done and I went to install some LV down lights. When I went in to the loft, under the fibreglass there was Vermiculite. I know...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying a property. The RICS surveyor flagged the roof as being problematic: the purlin towards the front of the house seems to have moved by a few cm and is not fully resting on the diagonal support along its length or on the metal support in the party wall. -...

Hi, I have a bungalow that uses trusses that have a 6m span which are spaced apart by 0.6m for a total length of about 12m (about 20 trusses). Each truss uses 4 webs/posts in a 'w' formation. Forgive me if this is not the correct terminology. The trusses are made from 72mm x 36mm timber. The...

Hey all. Live in a 1950 council house and trying to get ideas to start a loft conversion. The problem is the chimney is in middle of house, and also king post. I am unsure is the chimney is supporting the Perlins. It a very confusing loft with the chimney in middle with wall slitting both sides...

Hi Hi wanted to put some new lights up in garage so cut a hole in ceiling and fitted an access hatch thinking I could climb up there however after seeing the timber decided it probably wouldn’t be safe to climb around in there, I managed to fish my cables where i needed so that job was ok. The...

I've been upgrading my loft insulation. 1950s house. I have joists that are about 130mm deep. In between the joists, there was a thin layer of old glass fibre insulation and what looked like rockwool insulation over that. The insulation varied in depth and was ~75mm deep at best, ie at least...

I have come across some random plasterboard in-between a few of our loft rafters. The previous owners had a two-storey extension built 10 years ago with some new roofing that joined onto the existing roof. There is some overlap between new roof felt (beathable) and the old existing felt (the...