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I've got a retaining wall in my back garden about 5 ft tall and 20 ft long constructed of pre-formed concrete gravel boards slotted into concrete fence posts, I don't know how far the fence posts have been buried. Over the course of the winter the mortar joints between the panels have started...

I've got a bit of a problem with my pointing (I think). House is 1889 3 bed semi of cavity wall construction. I've had some damp problems in the front bay window in the past, mainly caused by dodgy guttering and a concrete pad outside that breached the old slate DPC. I've removed the...

Hi, Bought the house just under 2 years ago and had to replace the original flooring in the front room due to damp, joists were touching the soil (chalk) beneath and had got dry rot. Problem was compounded by the wall construction (cavity wall on a house built in 1889), as the cavity was...

Hi, I've recently noticed a hairline crack running vertically through the grout in my shower, from the top to the bottom of a stud wall, which I think just has plasterboard behind it. As all the work was done before I moved in I don't know if the grout is decent, whether the stud wall is...

Is this ok? I'm having the kitchen done and just need to make sure that a new FCU for a heater isn't going to involve a load of extra wiring. Socket on ring --> Switched FCU to Boiler (3A fuse) --> Switched FCU for hydronic plinth heater (5A fuse) I think the Switched FCU to the boiler is...

I'm having the kitchen done at the moment and have had the walls and ceiling plastered (walls bonding coat and skim, ceiling plasterboard and skim). I've painted the ceiling with a mist coat of Dulux Retail Rich Matt, because my mrs was in a rush and wanted it done yesterday and I'm going to...

Hi, I have a sloping internal roof in my shower room with a Velux window and an extractor fan with a delay fitted to the lighting circuit but I have still been having problems with damp in the room. I removed the extractor fan from the sloping ceiling as it was rattling a treat and replaced...

The carpet fitters are coming on Monday, I refuse to pay £1.80 per metre as Allied quoted for gripper rod, I've found gripperrod for wooden floors on tradepriced.com at reasonable prices but it probably won't get here in time. Does anyone know where I can get similar spec gripper rod around the...

I've just dug out a small strip (5.7m x 1m) out the back of my house for decking. I was going to use 5x2 for the frame, currently I'm planning to put supporting blocks every 1.5m or so - sound about right? Due to a drainage pipe running under the planned deck placing supports to the central...

I'm looking to put in a new 1/4 landing so I don't have to keep going down and then up the same steps all the time. I'm not sure the 2 steps are level, is the best way to approach this to put a piece of something like 18mm ply onto the existing steps, level using wedges then screw in place...

Hi all, Just a quick, is this possible question. I currently have 3 way switching to my landing light, from the hall downstairs, the landing at one end and the landing at the other end. The intermediate switch is a 2 gang modular crabtree switch that looks rubbish - I have MK Logic Plus...

I've just had the heating engineer round to look at my dodgy Alpha 240P boiler - I think it's on its last legs...he suggested replacing it for a Worcester-Bosch Greenstar 37CDi. Old boiler was obviously really inadequate in terms of of output but he did notice one sticking problem to installing...

I'm looking to run an extension cable to a socket in my lounge (for a Sky+ box therefore wireless extender not an option) externally because I don't want wire along the top of my skirting boards. I intend to use 3 pair CW1308 spec wire. I know that BT don't like you playing with anything...

Hello all, I have a damp front room, the house is Victorian (circa 1849) of brick construction, with a cavity wall. The main damp problem is with the front bay window. I have lowered the outside ground level, which was up about 2 courses above the slate dpc by digging out the concrete that...

I have recently moved into a house and in the (downstairs) lounge next to the satellite point there is a telephone extension socket, I wish to connect a Sky+ box to this point (so I cannot use a wireless socket extender) and I do not wish to have an unsightly cable run across the floor from the...

I've recently moved into a Victorian semi and have discovered that the front room floorboards and joists have wet rot. I need to replace the boards and joists but have no idea where to start! I know I need to get some more ventilation sorted to stop the rot coming back so I'm going to try...