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[tunnie]

Dob and dab board plus skim for that,  about 300-400 I would say.  Insulation will make bog all difference seeing as it's a house wall and conservatories are about as well insulated as a coal shed.

Cheers Mark, that's a lot cheaper than I was expecting 

[Bigron]

Tunnie, have you considered tongued-and-grooved timber cladding? In the space between the battens you could use rockwool for insulation and it would be relatively easy to accommodate any electrical fittings - just remove them, cut a suitable hole in the wood and refix them. As you wouldn't be adding to an existing installation, merely temporarily moving it, you are allowed to do the electrical work yourself.

Ron.

[Stemo]

Swedish sauna look......hmmmm...

[tunnie]

Tunnie, have you considered tongued-and-grooved timber cladding? In the space between the battens you could use rockwool for insulation and it would be relatively easy to accommodate any electrical fittings - just remove them, cut a suitable hole in the wood and refix them. As you wouldn't be adding to an existing installation, merely temporarily moving it, you are allowed to do the electrical work yourself.

Ron.

Not really to be honest, it's not a look we are after really.

Prefer nice smooth white walls 

Thanks for the suggestion though 

Yes, I think I only need a sparky if I'm making a change to a current circuit 

[aaronjb]

Unless conservatories count as 'outbuildings', in which case you'd need a spark for anything I believe.. officially speaking, anyway.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Unless conservatories count as 'outbuildings', in which case you'd need a spark for anything I believe.. officially speaking, anyway.

Which they do in reality as the regs consider tham as sheds (and hence why you need external doors between them and the main house, insurance compainies require said doors to be locked and why they have the insultaion properties of an empty coke bottle).

The only saving grace is that they are connected to the house and hence not remote and how you get around the 'outbuildings' bit, they are a 'lean to'.

[tunnie]

If I was going to do it, I would have done a brick extension with roof light things, about 3, but like the setup at the moment with a sloping roof.

It's a nice space, we are only just starting to use it really.

So when someone dots & dabs the plasterboard, would they expect to have sockets/heaters removed? 

[Marks DTM Calib]

A blank wall needed. For sockets, I usualy remove the socket/switch and replace with terminal blocks for ease, they will cut the plasterboard around the socket and then following completion, you refit the sockets/switches.

[tunnie]

A blank wall needed. For sockets, I usualy remove the socket/switch and replace with terminal blocks for ease, they will cut the plasterboard around the socket and then following completion, you refit the sockets/switches.

Thanks again 

Also need to remove the useless electric heaters they put in, we tried them out, bit crap. Think they are uber expensive on leccy too.

[Marks DTM Calib]

A blank wall needed. For sockets, I usualy remove the socket/switch and replace with terminal blocks for ease, they will cut the plasterboard around the socket and then following completion, you refit the sockets/switches.

Thanks again 

Also need to remove the useless electric heaters they put in, we tried them out, bit crap. Think they are uber expensive on leccy too.

Electric heaters are 100% efficient 

The cost is down to the ability (or not as the case is) of the conservatory to keep the heat in (which they dont do very well)

[Kevin Wood]

Conservatories are, unfortunately, freezing cold in winter, no matter what you do, and boiling hot in summer, no matter what you do.

[tunnie]

A blank wall needed. For sockets, I usualy remove the socket/switch and replace with terminal blocks for ease, they will cut the plasterboard around the socket and then following completion, you refit the sockets/switches.

Thanks again 

Also need to remove the useless electric heaters they put in, we tried them out, bit crap. Think they are uber expensive on leccy too.

Electric heaters are 100% efficient 

The cost is down to the ability (or not as the case is) of the conservatory to keep the heat in (which they dont do very well)

Yeah so we've noticed!

Conservatories are, unfortunately, freezing cold in winter, no matter what you do, and boiling hot in summer, no matter what you do.

Does appear the case