single skin

Hi everyone, We are thinking of having a garden room built and need some expert advice as you never know if you can trust the builders! A single skin block construction has been suggested "with insulation". We wonder if it'd be suitable for our purposes and what kind of pitfalls should we look...

Hi there, I am insulating my detached single skin garage. I decided to build studs in between the concrete columns using 3x2, a permeable membrane on the outside and PIR insulation with a air gap between the concrete wall and the stud. I construct them on the floor, attach the membrane then...

Hi, I have a single-skin brick extension with a concrete flat roof from the 50s/60s that I’m getting re-covered. The concrete roof overhangs the exterior by 100-150mm. I’m trying to decide whether to go warm or cold roof. I originally thought warm but now I’m concerned about potential...

Hello, I am renovating my single skin garden office / outbuilding. As part of it, i am going to raise the roof as i barely fit inside. The current brick walls are approx 217.5cm high from the foundations (around 29 courses of 75mm brickwork). I want to build the wall up another 4 courses -...

Hi, so I am assessing if my exterior garage/outbuilding can support the weight of a wall mounted weight plate storage rack (See picture two for the rack), there would be two racks both weighing at 80KG~ when plates are fully loaded at two spread-out locations as marked in red, photo 1. The wall...

Hello all, I am planning on taking my single skin utility room back to brick and then sticking 50mm of insulated plasterboard to it with foam adhesive. The room is currently off of my bathroom accessed by an internal door so is very very cold but damp free (only wetness on wall is from...

Hi all, I have a single skin brick shed at the bottom of the garden that I want to renovate and convert to a office, I want to replace the existing wooden door and windows (if you can call them that) but I'm not sure how to go about it, the lintel is in two pieces and I'm not sure if it will...

I am curios if this is doable or would work. I have a small single skin block shed. Now I am wondering if you can use foam tile backer board like Q Board dot and dabbed to the wall as both the vapor barrier, insulation and paneling without using plasterboard? This panel is meant for wet rooms...

Hi. I have a strange problem. I have a random damp patch that has appeared on an internal wall out of nowhere. The patch is where a doorway has been pboarded up. Hallway is on the otherside of the wall. No pipes running under or behind. No visible dampness anywhere else. Have lived in house for...

We recently started our loft conversion in a terraced house. The contractor followed the plans based on a calculation that was provided by a structural engineer. The work progressed to a level that three steam beams were put in place and by this time we heard back from the council building...

Hello, I have a single skin 30-meter garden wall (see attached) its approaching 50 years old and is in poor shape in places. As you can see the top courses are a bit knackered in places, there are also spalled bricks and some repointing that needs doing. The wall retains some of the garden...