spleenharvester

Sure, thought it was worth a try. Thank you anyway!

Hi all I want to remove a wall from my outhouse. In the attached diagram it's the red one. The outhouse is solid brick construction in the walls, not sure what the roof is made from. Do you reckon I can safely knock this wall through or does it need support beams? The dream would be to knock all the inner walls through but I assume that would definitely need support beams? All input appreciated!

Thanks, I think you are probably right about EWI - by my calculations it would pay itself off within 4 years (we are absolutely hemorrhaging money in energy bills, I really struggle to believe this is an EPC D property). I've found a place that installs it with 36 month finance, might aim to have it done end of the year.

Alright chaps, I'm a (semi)-competent DIYer in most areas. I have done some internal plastering, but never touched exterior stuff before, so would really appreciate your help. We moved into a 4 bed semi-detached house 4 months ago that is an absolute money pit, we've already taken out £20k in loans fixing stuff the survey missed, so we can't spend any more money any time soon. Unfortunately for us the pebbledash render started falling off the front of the building in massive chunks a few weeks ago. On further investigation I found all of it was blown on the front wall, and literally just held in place with beading. In the photo below I was able pull all of it off with my bare hands in about half an hour. The side and back actually seem to be only slightly blown, weirdly, so we will probably leave those for now. The render underneath (sand and concrete by the looks of it?) is ugly as sin and has been damaged in parts by pebbledashing, but does seem to be intact - I'm not finding any blown areas or major cracking, I think the missing patches were probably damaged during the pebbledashing. So since I can't afford to have it redone I want to have a crack at cleaning up the existing render myself. I'm not aiming for a perfect finish, just want it to look like less of a crack den until we can afford to have a professional re-render in 4 years time. Just wondering what the best/easiest way to proceed is, especially as the existing render hasn't been keyed properly. Can I top up with more sand and cement? Or is something like a tyrolean gun approach more likely to work (I'm assuming I would need to put some kind of tacky layer on for it to stick though?) Cheers in advance for your input