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Check beyond the gully, a bust pipe near the house will make great use of the house as a soakaway. I'd suggest your neighbour had the right idea - concrete, as it's pretty shallow so it won't cost a huge amount. You'll end up with a much better insulated floor so will have lower heating bills...

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It's a symptom of another problem. There's definitely an issue there - either a water leak or the driveway isn't sloping away so is funnelling water into the wall. Have a look after it's rained heavily or just wet it with the hose to see what happens. And/or check with a spirit level. What's...

Washing up liquid will release the seal but will also damage it. Use silicone grease or pipe lubricant. Wiggle it around slightly while rotating, it should come free. You will need to take care that you don't pull out the section of pipe that it's connected to somewhere deeper underground -...

It's very likely that the only difference between them is that one was on top of the stack in a timber yard so has faded from sunlight and rain, the rest haven't... yet. Just doing nothing is probably by far the best option. The rest will go the same way if you give them chance, they just...

To me it just looks like the layer of "fat" has been lost from when it was skimmed, i.e. a few mm deep. In which case it's nothing to worry about. You'd need to show us a closer photo to see what it looks like. If that surface where it's blown is an intact, reasonably flat surface then you...

Bear in mind that if you demand a discount, however justified you think it is, the seller is perfectly entitled to tell you to clear off, leaving you with a load of fees and no house. What really matters is whether it's typical condition for its age/period (it probably is), whether it's good...

If Bedroom 3's fireplace is actually on top of that chimney in the kitchen then the drawings are complete rubbish so you shouldn't rely on them to tell you what's on top of what. You'd need to judge in person.

I thought that room was about 5m wide from the look of the photo. Then I remembered how estate agents like their wide-angle lenses and noticed that the washing machine drum is oval! The stubs shown are actually a representation of the two sides of the chimney. It's very unlikely that the...

Opening the window creates an easy route for fresh air from the window to go straight back out of the fan, leaving most of the air in the room untouched. Often the extractor is quite close to the window. Also an open window allows the wind outside to push steamy or smelly air under or around...

You can see the wall stubs on the plan of the kitchen. I'm guessing a back entranceway and pantry were there, the left stub would have been under the upstairs wall.

I told my other half she can use the squeegee in the crappy old shower, but I don't want it scratching the screen and tray in the new one. The amount of water left there is probably insignificant compared to the towel that's cooking away on the towel rail and wicking into the air. I prefer...

Is the weight of the bath a concern, in addition to the walls? I agree that it's probably had a wall removed, chances are there was a pantry or similar where the wall stubs are. So it may have been built of brick, and its support may have been removed. In which case it may be a problem.

Materials would have been about £3.

It would be unusual if a house of that sort of age hadn't moved. Its sounds like a load of fuss about not much, with a back-covering pasted in paragraph about the drains.

It definitely needs re-doing, with new pipes and concrete after breaking out all the old. It's a total botch, there's that step you're concerned about but also the downstream pipes will shortly be full of the mortar that they've skimmed over the old broken concrete to falsely make it look like...

If it really bothers you then of course you could.

After a further look at the photos, it's utter garbage, you should complain to your insurer and it definitely needs a non-cowboy to look at it. They need to stop using whoever did it completely. The "re-benching" is basically a slop of mortar over the top of the existing surface, plus a bit of...

Hang on a minute... either I'm missing something, or that pipe is sloping uphill. In which case it definitely won't work. Either that or the flow is upwards in the photo, if so the side channel is pointing the wrong way. Either way it's rubbish. There should be a minimum 1:80 (DOWNHILL!)...

What fan do you have? I have a "quiet" one and it's useless, I'm about to change it for a decent one. But some amount of condensation is fairly inevitable. Do you have lots of ceiling/wall insulation? Also get the room heated well before you shower, so that the surfaces aren't as cold.