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Hi. My loft - in a 1930ish house - has had pigeons roosting in it for an extended period some years ago. (Its actually top flar in a conversion) I have removed the old heavily contaminated insulation and vacuumed out most of the droppings. A joyful task. I want to disinfect loft. Local...

Hi. I have a loft which has joists with gaps between about 300mm a few a little more maybe 310. I need to insulate cheaply as possible to 100mm. All the standard roll insulation i can find is 1140 wide. Apart from discarding the last 240, or fiddling about to cut and fit two strips together...

Hi all. I'm hoping for some advice about an outside staircase. Single storey. A builder has made this, but all the treads are fixed to the stringers with three screws at each end, into the endgrain, just butt joint. In places you can see light between the end of the tread and the stringer...

Hi all. Hoping for some help about using plaster outside please. I have a sort of outside landing at 1st floor level with solid walls round it. The flat downstairs bathroom is under it. The render was quite poor in places. A builder patched the render and it looked quite nice painted but about...

Should Building Control be involved in the new building of a new outside staircase to my flat? I have a 1st floor flat. Main access is via internal staircase to downstairs external door. There is a flat area to the back on top of downstairs bathroom, with a wall round it. From this...