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We've just had our garage converted into another room. The builder was unable to get a good match of colour for the bricks so we are going to get the bricks tinted and that is being done next week. However, the mortar looks to be a completely different colour to the existing mortar. This is...

We're in the process of buying a house and I'd ideally like to change the layout of the kitchen. We'd need professionals in to do this, not a DIY job, but I just wondered if anyone knew how much work would be involved to move the sink and the washing machine so that they are against the main...

We have a crack that runs down the side of our house (I've posted about it on here before) and I just wondered, can a structural engineer tell if it's subsidence just by looking at and around the house, or does the ground need to be dug up to check and the cracks monitored? Just wondering how...

Our house is pebble-dashed and we are thinking about having it rendered. The house across the road recently had their house done. Their house was like ours, fully pebble-dashed, but they had the top half re-pebble-dashed and the bottom half rendered smooth. She said that it was a lot cheaper...

We bought our house about 15 years ago now. It is pebble dashed and when we bought it, we did note some cracks down the outside wall of the house. Our survey came back saying that the house had suffered some previous movement, but there was no evidence to suggest this was ongoing. The...