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Hi, I have a 3 bed Terrace property that has been rented and on the day the tenant moved out half of the electrics failed. Modern fuse box, 2x RCD's each with 6 MCB's One RCD wont reset & the RCD's have been swapped and the problem isnt with the RCD. This RCD has; MCB's for Oven, Hob Socket...

I have an old house I'm renovating, all the internal doors are wreaked but they are also odd sizes. I'd be happy with plain veneer doors, maybe just plain white, beach, something simple. Now due to the sizes being very odd my intial thought was to buy cheap hollow doors, cut and the re...

Hi, I need to level a rough floor, think surface of the moon and you get the idea. Seriously its probably got around 1 - 1.5 cm of variation in a room 2m x 4m. Latex would be very easy but very expensive, a full floor screed of normal sharp mix would be too thin. I can come up about...

Hi, I'm just about to start work on a renovation project on a house thats been un occupied for some years and I was wondering if anybody has an insurance company that would provide buildings cover for a few months whilst its being worked on ? Any suggestions welcome Cheers, Richard

Does anybody know what it costs to get a gas supply presented to a building ? There is gas in the road and some neighbouring houses have had it connected, it would appear the property is only a few meters from the Gas main. Any guidance/experiance in such things appreciated. Cheers...

Hi All, I'm shortly going to be renovating an old 3 bed semi (1900 aprox) With the plan is to let it out short term and to hopefully draw income in my later years as a pension fund.... It currently has no central heating, just a few open fires and few storage heaters. Gas is in the road...

Hi, I've just purchased a house in need of a lot of renovation and I'm tryiing to price up various jobs in some detail and have a view of what actual materials I will buy etc... Externally the house has 4 different types of wall finish, the front has a pebble dash, the side some kind of...