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I am in the situation where I am converting a garage with a pitched cold roof above. However I’ve also removed the ‘external’ wall that separated the garage and kitchen. I’m taking the opportunity to improve insulation with IWI in the garage and want to also improve airtightness. I’m happy with the floor-wall, wall-ceiling & wall-window details for VCL/airtightness layer with the garage itself. However I’m not sure what to do when I get to the original house. e.g. Crude line drawn on photo below showing continuous airtightness layer coming up external garage wall on left, under insulation in garage ceiling, under steels (to be insulated). then I arrive at kitchen ceiling with bedroom above. What happens when you have to terminate an airtightness layer in a refurb where not all rooms are being tackled? all I can think to do is apply liquid membrane between joists in GF/FF void to underside of FF chipboard & around joist entries into blockwork. Then tape/seal the membrane from the garage onto the liquid one. My air leakage path becomes up into the bedroom which sounds not great given kitchen has lots of moisture. Or carry the membrane right across kitchen ceiling and terminate midway into the house. Also seems wrong.
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Hi all, My wife and I bought and Ex-Council house to refurb and extend both for practicality and for a bit more space. The plans have been in for a while and look to go through in January now after being postponed due to the volume in our parish council. We are doing most of the work ourselves but subbing out to the skilled trades. We are fairly competent and push our limits as much as possible. I’ve got a background in Estimating Commissioning of Commercial water and air systems and then Estimating Commercial Roofing & Cladding but have jumped over to become a Trading Standards Officer… a fun conversation with trades people! (Shortly followed by a “don’t worry”!) Joining the forum for help with any areas we may get stuck on. There are plenty being thrown up as we start to scratch the surface! In fact I’ve just posted our first problem here:
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Hello, we are looking to buy a house that 6700sq ft of solid brick construction, old sash and Georgian style. We want to be able to calc costs on refurb+extension vs new build. Where would be best to start? Thank you in advance
