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Hi All. Im hoping someone can advise me on how I can fit my toilet and waste to the old vertical soil pipe in the floor. I need to also fit my bath and basin waste into the soil pipe as there is no easy accessible drain. The problem is the collar on the old pipe (is it clay or something else?)...

Hi All. I'm hoping someone can advise the best way to go deal with fitting architraves when one side of the door opening is very tight to the wall. It is the same throughout the house and it's probably 2-3cm max. I've had to fit strip wood to the door liners to bring it out level with the...

Hi All. I’m going to have a go at the skirtings and architraves on my house over this next week and am considering buying a nail gun. I’m not too sure what I’m buying and would like to keep the cost down so interested to know if it’s worth it? Would I be able to get something for £1/150ish...

Hi All. I’m about to start on blocking up my old kitchen doorway. It’s on an external wall, double skin (no cavity I think but there does seem to be a void in places. It’s early 1900 so I don’t think there should be a cavity so the gap might not be intentional?). There’s a timber lintel on...

Hi All. I’m currently in the process of removing the fireplace in my 1900s mid-terrace. I’ve got the old gas fire out & the cast concrete surround but now I’m unsure where to go. The fireback & surrounding brings stick out proud from the wall so need to be removed before I can block it up...

Hi All. I’ve recently purchased a property (mid-terrace 1900s) and there seems to be potentially big issues with one half of the chimney at the rear of the house. In the loft, there is a big diagonal crack going through the diagonal section of the stack that goes up to the roof level. A...

Hi All. I'm in the process of getting my patio done and the flower bed where the patio meets the garden has just been rendered. After doing some googling i'm now concerned that ill have issues with water getting inside the flower bed and then soaking through the breezeblocks and blowing the...

Hi All. The exterior concrete window sills on my house have seen better days and so today i decided to start working on them. Its a bay window and on the corners there are several cracks some of them a good 10mm or so wide. The paint was badly flaking and in some areas it looks like someone...

Hi All. Im considering buying a wall mounted pull up bar to fix to one of the walls in my kitchen but am unsure if it's safe to do so or if it'll damage the walls. It's a 1930s brick built house and i'd prefer to fix it to one of the internal walls. Can anyone confirm if this should be okay...

Hi All. I've got a 1910-1920s terrace with suspended floors throughout except for the kitchen which was a concrete slab. After panicking about potential damp issues I've decided to go down the route of digging out the slab and fitting a new suspended floor - it will make things easier when i...

Hi All. I've recently knocked through the wall between my kitchen and dining room and am now starting to think about laying some flooring. The house is a 1920/30s terrace with suspended floors throughout except for the kitchen which is concrete slab (for the most part at least - in one corner...

Firstly, apologies if I'm requestioning what's already been answered in the sticky but it didn't seem to quite fit the bill for my situation. In short, I have recently knocked down the dividing wall between my kitchen and dining room and am left with part tiles on a concrete base and part...

Hi all. I realise if I'm asking this it means I should be getting the experts in but here goes... I've recently purchased a 1930s mid terrace house and plan on knocking through to create a kitchen diner. Its a fairly standard layout - kitchen and dining room at the back of the house with the...