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Having some re-roofing done, informed building control of the start date and paid my £400 to building control as advised. Work's half done now, roofers been here for 10 days and not one single visit from the inspector. Never really dealt with building control before, I would have assumed...

Having to move the boiler to the other side of the house, planning it out now, can you re-use a pipe run of 22mm copper that was previously used for the CH for a new gas run? or does the gas supply to the boiler require a new pipe? It's quite a long, hard to access run you see and there's an...

Just had a quote to re roof 5 terraces houses, 40sqm roof area per house, remove old slates and re-roof with marley modern/cement tiles... West yorks area, quote came in at 22500 all in(flashing, scaffolding, copings, ridge tiles). Works out 4500 per house which seems expensive to me.

Replacing an old heater with a new combi(3 bed detached house).... It must go in the same place, under the stairs. Height of the back wall is 1070mm to the stairs, then obviously goes up as the stairs climb. So any new combi needs to be around >700mm high.... Had a look at a few and keep...

Need some reskimming done, at present the plaster is either flush or slighty proud or the door frames. Is it wise to add some 3mm strips of wood to the frames to give the plasterer an edge? then stick the architrave on top. Or better to just have him do the best he can and then rebate the...

Had some building work done on the house, this meant the soil stack had to be removed, previously it was inside the house, exiting out the roof. (see pic) It's now been moved to the side of the house (outside) but not connected up yet as the bathroom needs doing. Part of the old stack is...

I'm boarding out my mum's loft, it's the first job in a long list as she's renovating the whole house. Before I start I'd like to suss out what to do with the bedroom ceilings. The bedroom ceilings are plasterboard but there's cracks on virtually every single joint (they're wallpapered as...

I have a weeping joint on the compression joint on the copper pipe going up to a Rad valve upstairs. I've tightened up the joint but it still weeps, it really needs re-doing. I have a sealed system, X100 was only put in recently. So the problem I have is in order to fix the joint I'll have...

Been doing some work in an upstairs bedroom, removed some floor boards to run some cable and spotted a pile of what looked like sawdust near the end joist. On close inspection, the top of the joist where I had removed the floor board crumbled away. I removed all the loose material with a...

I'm dry lining a wall with timber, the window in the wall is out of level horizontally. When fixing the timber around the window, is it best practice to keep the timber level OR follow the lines of the window so the frame doesn't look odd against the plastered wall? Or, a bit of both to...

I'm currently doing some renovation in the bedroom, it requires removing the rad for a period of time while the work is done. I've had some x400 sludge remover in the CH system for a few months so today I drained down the system (flushing it out by opening the fill valve and letting it drain...

We have an old brick wall outside the house. Bricks are probably 150 years plus old, currently pointed with lime. Some of the bricks are very soft. My dad wants to do the repointing and plans to do it with cement. I think this is wrong as it will damage the bricks , every single bit of advice...

I had to repair my external hardwood door frame. Prepped it for painting, sealed round the edges with Geocel All Weather mate which is a paintable sealant 4 days ago. Painted it yesterday with Sandtex gloss, the paint on the wood has dried but the paint that's on the sealant has not and it's...

One of our tenants wants a water meter. She arranged for it to be fitted via yorkshire water, they came as said they couldn't fit one because there wasn't enough room. The supply comes up through the floor directly behind the washing machine and it must be too tight to the wall, or a...

I have a large site, awaiting building works starting. I've been trying to keep the weeds and grass under control last couple of years. Previously, I used sodium chloride weeder from wilkinsons, it was cheap and did the trick but now I understand it's been banned and the other weedkillers...

Sorry if this sounds a dumb question but I have an old bath, with square shaped tap holes. I think it was installed in the 70's. I'm looking to buy a fix-a-tap kit and they do a version for cast iron baths and pressed steel baths. How do I tell which mine is? :oops:

I need to cut into some 2.5mm cable to extend it. I'm not a big fan of crimp joints and would prefer to solder. Regarding insulting the joints, is shrink wrap the only way to go as opposed to insulation tape?

I fitted a brand new hardwood door few months ago, had 2 coats of sadolin wood wood protector and then a couple of top coats of extra. The inside was primed and then painted with Dulux diamond satinwood (water based). Problem is, as the weather is changing there's massive cracks appearing...

I have this basin mixer tap from Q&B: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9986511&fh_view_size=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=cirque&fh_eds=ß&fh_refview=search&ts=1271623995747&isSearch=true Keep noticing pools of water on the top of the basin...

Dunno if any of you watch the US tv show Holmes on Homes on Discovery shed? I do and noticed that when they use plastic barrier pipe for internal plumbing, the joints they use are different to the bulky Hep2o and Speedfit style elbow's we use. Pic here...