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    Help please - leaking gully at the back of chimney

    Hi I'm wanting to help an elderly neighbour of mine who's has a persistent leak from his roof. A roofer (of sorts) has been to fix this 3 times and each time the problem remains. He has a chimney mid way up his roof (rather than the on the ridge) and on the back of the chimney there's a dip...
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    The leaning wall of worry.

    Hi Folks I've got a stone wall approx 8/9 ft high on the boundary of my garden that is leaning rather badly into my neighbours garden (see the attached photos). It's not as tall on their side as the ground raises up but I'm concerned it may fall on them and squash them! It's construction is...
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    Tanking slurry - but to what height?

    Hi Folks To comply with building regs I need to waterproof a room that I'm renovating that is slightly below ground (17 inches on one size, 5 inches on the other). I'm planning to use the product below. My question is: Do i need to tank all of the wall right up to the ceiling or just the bit...
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    Does this stooled cill need a wooden cill too?

    Hi Folks I'm creating a new window opening and have a hardwood window ready to fit along with a wet cast stone head and cill. I've tried to upload a photo to this site about 100 times bit it won't let me (so have just linked to an example on the web). So my question is this. Is it normal to...
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    Victorian DPC - Can I drill through it?

    Hi folks Below is some handy work of mine that I need to revisit. I'm in the process of turning a coal store into a downstairs toilet but have hit a snag. The smaller (32mm) black waste pipe in the picture below is from 1 (soon to be 2) basins. The room on the other side of the wall (photo 2)...
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    Adding a new radiator from existing pipes in the floor above.

    Hi folks I'm wanting to add a new radiator to a new downstairs toilet I'm creating. I have 2 options regarding the pipes required to connect this to my central heating system. option a) = Connect to an existing radiator on the same (ground) floor. The downside to this is that it will mean...
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    patching a strange internal concrete plaster wall

    Hi folks I'm adding a new downstairs toilet to my house and need to add 2 doors into an internal wall that at present has just one (one of the new door openings will overlap some of the existing door opening). Because one of the doors will need to be where part of the present door opening I...
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