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This site could be really brilliant. So many posters on here are knowledgeable and helpful and interesting. There's tons of really useful info and hundreds of expert folk ready to share and help each other out. But there is a significant minority who turn up in every thread, rolling their...

A thread I started was hijacked by someone who just spent their whole time being extrememly unpleasant, very insulting, and entirely off topic. Several times I (and others) pointed out that this poster was missing the point (aka hijacking). The moderator response was to (a) lock the...

If I want to move an internal stud wall and create a new doorway in a top floor flat, do I need to get approval from the Council's Building Services department? Essentially, I have a galley kitchen that opens onto the lounge that I want to turn into a bathroom that opens onto the hall. So it...

The last time I tried to find an electrician I got quotes from four companies, and they were all outrageous. In the end I just left it till - tadaa! - I was going out with a spark. He did a couple of jobs for me that I'd had saved up literally for years... Anyway, he's moved on and now I...

I'm about to buy a top floor flat and do it up. I don't need to live there while the work is ongoing, but I do need to plan it out, and I'm a bit stuck! It's a medium-sized one bedroom flat, which currently has a galley kitchen off the lounge, a decent sized bathroom with a wooden false...

I'm about to embark on a biggish project, and as I go I'll be ripping out ... 1. one carpet - about 4.5 x 4.2 m - that's in pretty okay condition 2. a three piece bathroom suite, not ancient but not new either 3. full kitchen; sink, cooker and old units 4. big mirrored fitted...

The plaster in my house is pretty knackered, and every time I try to fix something to it the proces takes frustrating hours as the shelves - or whatever - gradually slide back off again, leaving a big hole, and I have to start from scratch. All very funny no doubt... The problem is that...