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    Patching render on 1930s bungalow - Advice needed.

    Hi all, I need to make some repairs to the render of the external walls of my 1930's bungalow. Repairs especially need to be made where double glazing was installed 3 years ago. I think the top coat is snowcrete(?) and the walls are concrete (with bits of flint and brick). I may be wrong...
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    retiling and refelting cost?

    Hello, I have a 1930s 2 bedroom bungalow, with two pitched roofs separated in the middle by a strip of flat roof. I've been getting bad damp patches on the ceilings of most rooms. Had the roof looked at by a roofing company who said that there's no point repairing it because its beyond that...
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    converting tile steps into concrete steps

    Hi guys, I've got some old steps in my garden that I want to renovate. I'd like to have concrete steps, then possibly lay slabs on top later. I'm not entirely sure what the old steps are made from, it looks like lots of concrete(?) tiles or roof tiles cemented together like a big sandwich...
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    Backfilling outside drain

    Hi guys, first post so go easy :) I've just had my plumbers fit all the plastic drain pipes etc outside my bungalow. They said its all working, all I need to do is backfill the hole that the pipes go into. I've been told I need to use pea shingle.. how exactly do I go about filling the hole...
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