Recent content by blewyn

Hey folks, What is your advice with regards to this ? It’s a plasterboard behind the mantelpiece which rests on two bolts. It has deteriorated due to heat. Do I need to break out the entire board around the crack and replace it, or just polyfilla the cracks and paint over ? There is a 5-6” gap...

The slater said he could do a patch job, but since the main cost of the job is going to be scaffolding I might as well do a permanent fix - ie a new window. If indeed the job has to be done from outside then I agree with him, because I'd rather do that than risk another leak - but if the job...

I have a Velux skylight (GVA-091) which is leaking. According to the roofer, it is leaking because it was installed incorrectly, with a nail having been hammered through the flashing to pin it to the roof, rather than being screwed in (which would be a waterproof fixing). He is telling me that...