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  1. Received reply from Isothane. They do not recommend filling the 4” gap ‘cos it is likely to deform the plasterboard as it expands. I filled the shop ceiling void where I am now living (1750 townhouse in shopping street) with blown lambswool! But I do not know about using on this project. Reluctant to tear off plasterboard before examining any alternative suggestions.
  2. Thank you for all your advice. Apparently we qualify for internal insulation, which would be 4” insulation board applied to all external walls and skimmed. I was enthusiastic but the surveyor said that the contractors do not generally do bathrooms and kitchens. As we are converting from a 5 bed to a 3 bed with 2 new bathrooms and a new kitchen then I can completely strip out before they arrive! Haven’t heard back from them. Horrible feeling that it is another Government Initiative that has been acquired by cunning operators entirely for their bottom line, but wait and see! Actually had another firm say that I qualify this morning? I know that I need to roof over 3.6 metres between two existing roofs. I actually designed and built a 2 floor garage/Office building some 30 years ago. I was able to get all the calcs from books. I have been visited by two local Architectural Surveyors but very unimpressed. They seem to act like solicitors, that the bill will take preference over liability. Am I getting too cynical with age!
  3. The bungalow is 100 metres from Coombe Junction Railway Station. Station was in Guiness book of records as least used but now very populay with 260 passengers annually. Two trains daily take you to Looe, Cornwall for a lot less than the cost of parking AND one of the most beautiful rail journeys in UK. It would have been closed by Beeching but saved by Barbara Castle. Harold Wilson’s parents lived at Station Road LISKEARD.
  4. The timber frame is as follows 4” brick 1” airgap and plastic membrane, 1” solid diagonal sheathing, 4” airgap, 1/2” plasterboard. I am hoping that the 4” airgap can be foamfilled even better if it can be achieved by Grant. The property qualifies as it is already EPC E and has Night Store Heaters.
  5. Thank you for those positive comments. I will explore the walls on Monday and post a sketch photo. 9/10th of walls are brick clad. 1/10 is timberclad as shown in photo. My previous knowledge is from renovating random rubble old Cornish buildings.
  6. Thanks for that advice! I have an endoscope. I will have a peer inside the cavities. I am minded that if it has lasted 55 years with no internal damp signs then leave it be!
  7. I am 76 years old. I do not have any private pension, saved money for this final project. I have a budget of £110k.
  8. When did you do this? The cost of demolition is surely now serious. A new sheet of plasterboard is £8.50, but costs £12 to dump. Would you really destroy this building?
  9. Hello Budding Builders. I have recently bought a 1967 bungalow with 20* pitched roof in a rural location close to my home in Cornwall. It was inhabited by the builder and his family until he died last year with no alterations. Mainly brick facing, airgap, studs, timber cladding, airgap, plasterboard. Floor Concrete battens Chipboard. The loft, internal walls and external soffits display a myriad of cables, wiring, phone, Tv, security systems. I hope to raise the bungalow to close to Passivhaus standard. There is currently no sign of damp in the property. Prime question. Can I leave all external walls and plasterboard intact, erect a touching super-insulated studwork including all plumbing and electrics first fix?
  10. Hello. I am embarking on conversion of 1960 bungalow hopefully to near passivhaus standard, while living in my granny flat in LISKEARD, which has box 2 layer profile roof separated by 100mm celotex insulation, which the roofers bought from CLADCO.
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