Final stage of the bedroom retrofit is adapting the window architrave to accommodate the additional 100mm of insulation that is now on the wall. For those […]
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Bedroom insulation is all up and the room sounds quieter and feels softer. The next stage is for lime plaster to be applied. We needed to
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Next step in insulating the bedroom was gluing the insulation batts directly onto the Diathonite skim. Choosing insulation means reviewing a number of issues: Age of
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I’ve often thought I had a TED in me. I just never expected my subject to be insulation. Yet here I am, focusing on retrofit –
The next step in insulating the bedroom is the Diathonite skim. All the old plaster has gone and we’re left with a clean brick wall. The
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Throw nothing away – that’s our mantra – and we’ve done pretty well so far. Removing the chimney breast was no exception. I’d assumed that even
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The insulation process begins with removal. Step one – get rid of all the old plaster. Step Two – work out what you want to do
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In our bedroom retrofit, getting rid of the plaster felt like a real drag. But we new it was for the best. So having cleared the
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Taking out the chimney breastThe bedroom is finally done – and it was by the skin of my teeth. My first Open House (blog to follow)
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The search for a lime plasterer is over! And I made a big discovery – ‘plastering’ doubles for ‘anything stuck to a wall’, so when I finally
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