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  1. 22 hours ago, Olive_Green1923 said:


    The garage is detached. It has a c.5cm cavity (which I can look into from the top), hence the possible option of polystyrene beads. Apparently they are quite effective and do not allow the transfer of moisture. In any case, I would rather avoid the expense, although I do have a bloke coming this week to do quotes.

    Why on earth did they go to the extra expense of building a detached garage with a 50mm cavity? It doesn’t meet current spec and would have cost more than a simple 9” build. 

  2. 4 hours ago, Olive_Green1923 said:

    However, as I'm not looking to "convert" my garage, I don't think the above is applicable. Instead, I'm just looking to do DIY upgrades that will make it a slightly warmer and more habitable room which will be used as a workshop and layout room, and as a back-up can still accommodate a car.

     

    The garage is a new-build with double skin, gable roof, metal door and one double glazed window, so I am off to a good start in the scheme of things. I have already bought insulation foil for the main metal door and I plan to put down EVA tiles which will hopefully provide some insulation from the concrete floor, not to mention a nicer surface to stand on. I also plan to make the garage door draught-proof.

     

    There is then of course the option of filling the cavity wall with polystyrene beads or building a new internal wall with timbers and Celotex - but I would rather avoid the latter as it will reduce space and increase cost. There is also the option of putting in a ceiling with rockwool on top (which would also create a useful attic space) or attaching foil on the inside of the gable roof - but of course these two options would also be costly.

     

    Short of putting in some heaters (which I may do anyway), I'd be interested to hear any other DIY measures I could take which will make the room warmer and more habitable for a layout.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     


    is your garage part of the house? If so it would explain a cavity, if not I would not expect your garage to be built that way. If you have exterior brick and internal block it may just be 9” construction.
    If there is a cavity that does not have insulation there may be a reason why not, by using the wrong material you may bridge the cavity allowing moisture into the inner skin. Also you mention a ceiling with insulation above and introducing a heater, again if your garage is part of the house be careful of a build up of moisture/vapour

     

    46 minutes ago, doilum said:

    future proofs it against any ingress of water after heavy rain.

    Garage floors are not level and must drain towards the main door. This in case of a fuel leak and stops it pooling inside the garage.

     

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    Appreciate the topic of garage layout rooms has been covered in a few threads, however, these often get bogged down in discussions about planning, building regs and structural work for conversions

    Building regs are there for a reason, ignoring them can be costly.

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  3. 8 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

     

     

    It was indeed an excellent range.  And what I like about his address (about only five miles from here as the crow flies) is that The Street is off Kit's Lane !

    I used to pop in on Dan, the regular joke was whether Kit’s Lane will ever be finished. 

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  4. I must be the odd one out, I’ve only ever made one purchase from Hattons and very rarely looked at the site. I looked about 6 weeks ago and thought the secondhand was overpriced. 
    always sad when people lose their job, but at least it was an orderly closure. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

     

    Strictly speaking of course, it was only GN as far as Shepreth, where it became GER

    Originally The Eastern Counties railway, which as far as the GN were concerned was to be avoided at all costs.  When the Bedford &Cambridge (later LNWR) we’re looking at a way into Cambridge the GN also looked at co-operating so they could avoid Shepreth branch junction. 

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Blandford1969 said:

    Have you made any forward progress on this one?

    About 95% of the drawing is complete but a house move got in the way. I did have a few issues with the valve gear/motion that would be better if they were castings, but the cost was getting silly. I could see a problem with the etching cost being far in excess of what few people who wanted it would want to pay (even at just cost price) so it got put on the back burner. 
    I have been looking at rtr chassis for some of my own projects to try and keep the cost down (if only the GN didn’t have such small boilers) but I don’t know enough about the Clan Goods to know if there is anything out there that could be adapted for use. 
    I’m busy with work and society stuff but I’ll try and find some time to take another look at it and see if I can see a cost effective way forward.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Daddyman said:

    Um, do we  maybe want to not advertise the beauty of Alnwick and Northumberland on a site where southerners are reading? 

    Too late 😀 although I'm technically 500 yards over the border.

     

    Your Dads book needs a reprint, trying to find one is near impossible (apart from paying £30 for a secondhand one) and I'd rather give my money to the NERA.

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  8. 11 hours ago, phil-b259 said:

     
    It’s rather difficult to do that given the whole reason HS2 has been cut back is not for technical / engineering reasons - it’s because A POLITICAN (or rather a certain party) has said it’s too expensive!

     

    You may not like to hear it, but the brutal truth is that politics is (1) the whole reason HS2 got the go ahead in the first place, (2) what kept it going in spite of political opposition from certain quarters and (3) is now why it’s being neutered.

     

    In fact if you don’t want to read about ‘politics’ then I suggest you go and ignore the ‘prototype’ sections of the forum because one thing is for sure, politics is just as much part of the railways as the blood that runs through your heart is to you!

     

    The Politicians passed bills to allow railways to be constructed, defined the regulations which apply to it, set in place the commercial framework it operates under, provide subsidy for loss making elements, fund new infrastructure, decide fares policy….

     

    Whilst HS2 was a decision made by politicians (not POLITICANS) and is, as such a political decision.

     

    Your posts such as these

     

    On 23/10/2023 at 21:09, phil-b259 said:

    I.e. Only phase one built - and with a high chance that it never gets to Euston with the now cleared site sold off to the Tory partys developer mates for expensive flats.

     

     

    On 23/10/2023 at 16:46, phil-b259 said:

    As I said in a previous post, the Tory party as a whole  (and by extension your typical Tory voter) are generally a short termist, money obsessed and selfish lot who have hated HS2 from the beginning.

     

    Are nothing to do with HS2 but are quite obviously your personal political opinion of a large percentage of the population.  It contributes nothing to the thread apart from the threat of locking.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, DenysW said:

    But the stated reason is to catch up on a massive backlog of driver training (caused by themselves, of course)

    This is a bit off topic for HS2, but my understanding is the problem stems from Virgin creating a timetable that was based on drivers working overtime and rest day working rather than emptying more, then when the Avanti took over the DFT put a block on them recruiting more drivers which their franchise proposal had be based on.

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