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Both doors are hardwoods

both the internal door that is affected and the external door are hardwood. The external door it is painted with sikken cetol filter 7 plus and the internal door is appears to be stained. Neither door has had the top or bottom edges painted.

Hi, I have a bay window which appears to leak in heavy rain from the top frame - see pics which show droplets of water which have trickled down between the frame joint ( this joint is roughly where the mortar line is on the outside) and overnight it ends up leaving a huge pool of water on the...

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Hi have an internal and externak timber doors that keeps swelling especially during the rainy seasons and make it difficult to open or close. I planed the edge where it was sticking and it was fine for a while but appears to have swelled again due to all rainy weather. Whats the best way to...

I need to re route it

Hi, I need to replace the condensate pipe on a baxi duo tech. The existing one is fitted inside what looks like a flexible black rubbery type pipe coming out of the boiler. Do I just pull it out of that and push the new one in? Just want to make sure before I yank it out.

Don't really want to get on top of the roof. How about I paint the underside of the roof from inside the garage? Is Everycryl any good https://www.everbuild.co.uk/products/roofing/roof-repair/evercryl/

I've got pre-fab concrete garage with a pitched roof that seems to be leaking in a few places. I've no idea if it is made from fibre cement or asbestos. Upon closer inspection the sheets appears to have developed cracks along the areas where its leaking. For one reason or another, I don't want...

I have a utility room with a concrete floor. When it rains I've noticed the floor gets wet. Right outside this room are two drains - one is for the kitchen sink and boiler/washing machine waste trap and the other is for the guttering drain pipe from the utility room. There is also another hole...

What would be a good mortar mix ratio?

I have 1930-40 house with what I've been told is accrington brick. The mortar looks like a black ash mix which appears to be poorly pointed with some red dyed mortar which has blown out in multiple places. The full house need repointing and I wanted to ask what would be the best mortar mix for...

so do tongue and groove floor boards not require expansion gaps between them, The old boards all seem to have around 2mm gaps between them?

I've got some of that malaysian hardwood ply lying around. It's not the greatest stuff, has only 5 layers and the sheet is just about big enough to do the last 3 boards. Would this ply be adequate? I've also removed the next 3 boards and got some 20mm redwood tongue and groove boards to replace...

Because its cheap and easy to replace. Had one in a house for 20 years without issues.