Greenwoods
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I posted on here a while ago about sorting a dodgy conservatory extension done without any proper support.
We're now finally getting somewhere, having put in a steel "Goal post" on padstones, digging out the rubbish concrete over limecrete floor and installing new suspended floor.
I'm going with plasterboard and battens on the party wall with neighbour, but would like thoughts on what to do with the return/outer kitchen wall.
I've been thinking something like Adaptavate to keep it simple for the builder, but wondered if a plasterboard and battens would do for this wall as well.
Suggesting this to the builder as a possibility, he's worried me by saying we could do this and do a vapour control membrane on the outside of the wall. When the mess of lime plaster, gypsum plaster and concrete was removed, he has said the wall had a lot of moisture, but I'm thinking this is relatively normal in a 1904 Victorian a style house and the lime plaster will help this wall to breathe.
I was hoping battens and plaster board might also let the wall breathe, but now I'm thinking to get the Adaptavate in...
If you're doing a fitted kitchen with splashbacks/tiles/etc, does the room need to be as breathable as others when all the walls are pretty much covered in some way anyway?
We're now finally getting somewhere, having put in a steel "Goal post" on padstones, digging out the rubbish concrete over limecrete floor and installing new suspended floor.
I'm going with plasterboard and battens on the party wall with neighbour, but would like thoughts on what to do with the return/outer kitchen wall.
I've been thinking something like Adaptavate to keep it simple for the builder, but wondered if a plasterboard and battens would do for this wall as well.
Suggesting this to the builder as a possibility, he's worried me by saying we could do this and do a vapour control membrane on the outside of the wall. When the mess of lime plaster, gypsum plaster and concrete was removed, he has said the wall had a lot of moisture, but I'm thinking this is relatively normal in a 1904 Victorian a style house and the lime plaster will help this wall to breathe.
I was hoping battens and plaster board might also let the wall breathe, but now I'm thinking to get the Adaptavate in...
If you're doing a fitted kitchen with splashbacks/tiles/etc, does the room need to be as breathable as others when all the walls are pretty much covered in some way anyway?