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I am trying to stop very creaky bedroom floors and hoped to do so just by screwing down the chipboard panels. However, most of the noise is coming from along the T&G and the boards are generally well secured to the joists. So plan B is to replace the chipboard with plywood. To make this...

I am planning to screw chipboard floor panels to joists in an attempt to stop squeaking and groaning. What size and type of screws should I use and do I need pilot holes in joists or just through chipboard?

Following on from my earlier post about noisy bedroom floors, the consensus seems to be that chipboard is not a very good as a flooring product. So I plan to lift the existing chipboard flooring, scrap it and replace with plywood. So I would be grateful for help with what spec the ply should...

I live in a detached conventional brick-built house, constructed 13 years ago. We experience unacceptable levels of noise in downstairs rooms, when anyone walks across the bedroom floors above. The noise is a combination of creaks and squeaks together with footfall noise. I plan to lift the...

I live in a conventionally brick built detached house, constructed 8 years ago. It has taken me until now to notice that the concrete floor of integral double garage is one course of bricks below the DPC. This bottom course leeches salt out of the bricks and conducts dampness through to...

I'm not an electrician but I do have a problem with an RCB that keeps tripping. The RCB is incorporated in an MEM LB6301 Consumer Unit. In the last 6 weeks, we have suffered sevaral trips of the RCB during the time when the washing machine has been operating. Having reported the fault to our...