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We’ve moved. No longer semi-detached but fully detached now! The place we’ve bought is an old sandstone byre that was converted and extended (with block work) in the mid 1980’s. The interior walls of the byre are sandstone that’s been painted at some point in the past, but it now needs...

Hi Folks, We’re in the process of moving homes (or should that be projects! :D). The new place has an oil fired range cooker - photo below. We’ve been told it’s a Rayburn but I can’t find any online that look the same. There are no identifying marks I can see anywhere. As far as I know it...

I'm having to remove some large areas of old lime plaster from interior brick walls. I plan to put on a bonding coat and then a finishing coat. The brickwork is uneven and there's not enough clearance over the whole area to dot and dab even 9.5mm plasterboard. I need a little advice about...

I'm currently remodeling space on the ground floor of my house. The building inspector was round today to check the lintel over opening I've installed (which all checked out OK :D ). We were discussing the next stages which is basically closing up a couple of doorways and creating a toilet...

Problem: Our downstairs radiators get nice and hot but upstairs they're only luke warm and it's been the same since we moved into this house about 15 months ago. Recently we had a new boiler system fitted (Worcester Greenstar 30si) which I believe is a combi/condensing boiler giving us a...