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1950s solid brick build house with a front porch that has a UPVC door install 20 years ago but old internal door is in place still. Its very cold, no insulation on the porch part, air bricks circulate air into the porch so looking at options to insulate. Converting to part of the hallway seems...

We've got a 1950 build solid brick semi detached house. The hallway is always cold and is the largest room facing an outside wall and never gets any sun on it . We need to re-plaster so we were was thinking about putting up insulated plasterboard. We don't have much room to loose but it...

I've filled in the gaps at the side of the window to the brick wall with expanding foam. I've noticed above the window in a stud wall bay it has a little gap where you can see the light in this photo. On the outside it was a concrete mix that was filling the gap that's fallen away so light comes...

Below the bay window of the main bedroom I've discovered a cavity (see photo) whereas the rest of the house is brick. This drops down to the top of the ground floor bay bay window. It gets very cold in the bedroom and now I know why ! I was thinking of using Celotex 75mm PIR and replace...

I'm posting this as it might help others with this model fridge freezer. I had a problem with water appearing near the door and ice flow (its meant to be a frost free freezer). This is caused (as I discovered today) by a build up of ice that plugs the drip pan tube from the freezer. This is a...

Hi, I noticed some cracks on the front of my g/f house at the edge of the bay windows. Most the house in the street have the same problem so I cleared the crack and filled (following advice on this forum). The cracks were quite big and I noticed nothing being them and I could see the back of...

We have British Gas branded Worcester Bosch C1 combi boiler. I spotted yesterday the pressure guage needle was over the red line limit of 4 and probably nearer where 5 would be if it was marked. We turned the system off immediately and its dropped down to 3, the start of the red zone where its...

I'm trying to fit a new dishwasher which has a flood protection on the end of the inlet hose. The cold water pipe is horizontal and only has a 9cm gap to the boiler hot water pipe. The inlet hose won't fit unless I can turn it 90 degrees to face down. The cold water pipe has a male tap...