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I came up with this genius idea to build a bay window at the back of my house, similar to what's at the front. As can be seen from my MS paint editing skills, I wish to move the current rear 'kitchen', which is 2mx2m, into a breakfast nook type affair with bay window view to the rear, and the...

Hello, I am planning to reinstate a period original cast soil stack on my Victorian semi, this will be a slow project as I will source most of the bits reclaimed and be thoroughly prepared before the changeover from PVC so there is minimal bog use down time.. Anyway, as you can see existing...

..because it just looks great. Good news! Bad news, it must be 200kg, at least. My friend and I are vaguely mostly athletic ish and we can merely shuffle it about, slowly. Getting it out the van was a sight to behold. It's 9 foot wide and 6 foot high, which is nice. I think it would have been...

Hello, I usually try to answer questions where I can and generally be as helpful as possible on here, however it is now me needing the help.. So I thought you peoples may have some good ideas to solving my quandary. Long story short, new to me house, all GF flooring is mush, 3x air bricks in...

Double post, see correct thread here: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/slightly-unusual-suspended-floor-build-help.564014/#post-4872535

Hello, This is my next project, as you can see every single lintel is forked.. I would like to acro above each, remove the loose bricks, and rebuild, with an appropriate lime render, happy to do things the hard way, cutting bricks into tapers to make a nice strong arch for an original fix...

Hello I need to fix about half a dozen air bricks into my new (to me) 1895 semi, I'll be using either new or reclaimed clay type, or, if I'm feeling really fancy then perhaps some decorative cast type, all good so far. My concern is should I use lime mortar to fix these to match the existing...

Hello My parents have a few acres in France and I've ran out of activities to do outside of drinking the local wine - its Lot-et-Garrone region which is all thick full bodied Bordeaux style and I can't handle it any more. So they also have an oak forest intruding onto the property meaning...