any brickies about?

brickies labourer here

a friend is buying a house with an extension which is the kitchen , the surveyor has been round and amongst other problems has told her that the extension is single brick !!.....owner says its not unusual these days.....that true?

do you know if the extension is a timber kit ie wooden frame inside brick outside

she reckons not , no window sills

well i have never worked on any extension that was a single wall, the kitchen must be freezing if there is no cavity there will be no wall insulation

too true mate , thanks for ur help anyway . :-)

nae bother

needs guttin out and internal skin of blockwork with insulation etc or batten insulaton and dry lining i thank you

how many cups of tea do you drink a day?

kitchen gonna be baltic

only drink coffee

Hard to believe that anyone would do this!

If it was built to such a low spec there are probably other issues with it such as
the footings and DPC etc.

If it has a flat roof I am guessing there would be no insulation in that either!

It must have been built without planning and building regs approval as they would not
have got away with it otherwise.

Only exception to this would be if it was built as a none habitable space ie as a store
room or similar and then they broke through and made it part of the house.

Aside from the difficulty and expense, of heating i,t they will have horrendous problems
with condensation/damp.

Therefore, as the previous poster said, it will need gutting and a new internal skin constructing
with the relevant insulation.

If the local council get to hear about it they can make you tear it down.