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I have a ~4cm deep channel with a plastic oval conduit in it. It runs about 1m up the wall. I normally would have mixed up some bonding plaster and done it but like an idiot I used some ready mix plaster I found at Wickes - after five days it hasn't set and so I just dug it all out (easily)...

The floor in one of my bedrooms has a significant hump to it. It can be seen in the centre of this photo. I considered cutting the floorboards along the wall but I suspect that the internal block wall to the right is actually just resting on them. Not quite sure how to proceed.

I had to remove the step down from the house to the patio because it was breaching the damp proof course and causing all the end of the joists at the back of the house to become rotten. Now I am looking to rebuild it and tidy the whole area up. I have glanced at the solutions here...

Whilst renovating my kitchen I exposed an old vent hole that had been stuffed badly with polystyrene packaging and the render has been patched over outside. It is roughly four inches round by eight inches deep. I considered either sand and cement; or maybe expanding foam. Not sure what is...

I am having an issue with a leak in the area highlighted in red on my central heating system. It was installed 18months ago (from above) and a few days after I noticed a reasonable leak from that connection, got the plumber back in and it seemed sorted. Pulled the kitchen ceiling down to...

In my dining room there is a wooden beam which the upstairs joists sit on. In plenty of places the plaster as fallen away from this beam. I was wondering what the best approach to filling it in is? As the plaster is about 2cm deep I did consider chipping back the plaster and screwing in some...

Last night I noticed that a damp patch has appeared under the upstairs bedroom window. This was during the high winds and rain last night and I haven't seen that any damp there in the previous year of living here. The room was replastered about 10 months ago and I had started to notice a few...

In my dinning room the wall plate and the ends of some joists have become rotten. I think the issue is the patio step outside bridging over the damp proof membrane. I will be removing the step shortly. Most of the rot was in the centre of the room in front of the patio door which I have cut away...

I have noticed that there is a rather cold draught coming through the upstairs floorboards in the bay window on the main bedroom. As the bay sits upon a small roof (is there a name for this arrangement?) it appears the air is coming in through the roof. Looking under the floorboards shows that...

I have just finished pulling the skirting board off of my main bedroom and thanks to it being held on with floorboard nails the plaster hasn't survived all that well. The problem is in the bay area there is wood in the wall. A quick search suggests not to plaster directly on to it, and the...

The floor joists in my dining room rest at one end upon a piece of wood that sits inside the external wall (single wall 1920/30s property). This piece of wood is rotten/dust in various places (less than 1m in length). Also one of the joists is rotten too but unfortunately sits under a internal...

I have just found out the property I have purchased has a lead pipe, not a surprise but as it is leaking it is a good opportunity to replace before I move in. I had a plumber in who did other work for me and he said it is fairly cheap and easy to replace it inside the house to the porch with a...

I have just purchased a house and there appears to be mold (which was well hidden on viewings) in a couple of places which both seem to be caused by walls in the garden. In one case the shared wall with the other semi has a small gap of a couple centimeters between it and the house. A small...