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I live in a conservation area in an 1830s house Part of the house is a garage with a 3m wide garage door triple hinged. I would to replace the door with a single access door and then put in a smaller garage door. It is on the front of the property Obviously this will mean some brickwork...

Presently we have a public footpath going down our drive way round the side of the house and then up some steps and then on to the field at the back of the house. We were thinking the garage which is the first part of the house, the back wall is directly linked to the field at the back so was...

Our house was originally 4 joined mining cottages eg four houses with a single room downstairs and one upstairs. It has been converted to a single house with one of the cottages at some point in time turned into a garage. The house is 1830 sandstone, has no dpc or foundations it seems so was...

Just about to wire an out building up - looking for advice Should I wire it in twin & earth clipped to wall or should I go for flexi conduit/solid conduit in singles and use metal clad sockets. The feed into the outbuilding presently is a single 16A supply on a 4mm feed and just goes to an...

Our house is an old 1850 sandstone cottage. The floor in living room originally was old sandstone flags laid directly on earth eg no dpm. It has been partially concreted so unable to return back to original flags so plan to lay a new sandstone flags on top. When we moved in it was carpet on...

I have an 1850 old cottage which has sandstone flags laid direct onto earth, half of the room has had concrete laid on top so not able to keep flags throughout the room. The room is 7m x 3m I want to level the floor with something like stopgap 900 then lay a floating engineered wood floor on...

My Living room is long and thin and the two ends of the room are on external solid sandstone walls. We have removed the very old fibre board which was battened off the lime plastered walls I would like to dryline the wall to add some insulation to it but was not sure how to do it and what to...

I have just bought a 1850s Sandstone House, we have ripped out all of the old pinboard (old fibreboard) in the living room. With the 4 walls we have one nice one which I am repairing and repointing so would like to leave this natural above the fireplace and and maybe paint the wall next to it...

We have just moved into a 150 year old cottage, (originally 4 v small cottages) It is made up of solid sandstone walls. In the living room we have gutted it which involved removing all of the very old fibre board which was placed on battening. This has revealed lime plaster on all of the walls...