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hi I want to take the old door frame out for the kitchen, this now leads into conservatory, but, the doorway used to be a window only and looking at the exposed lintel it seems rather small for the load above it being all in limestone. The concrete lintel in place now looks to be about 5" x 4"...

Hi - is it possible to reduce the thickness of a stone wall for a span of about 1 metre on the interior without installing lintels? The kitchen walls are stone probably with rubble centre. There is already a lintel in place for the back door but the wall intrudes into the kitchen space so much...

hi - so i had to plug my pc in to kitchen cooker socket to get online as all downstairs sockets keep blowing. I am a lone parent and so worried about the electrical situation as i think it is the water heater but, strange thing is that i turned that off - it says water heater on the fuse label...

Hi - my front door has been cut down in size to fit a smaller than usual opening but I noticed that the old original frame is behind the new. Today I decided I had to know why there was so much plasterboard and packing around the door frame both inside the house and in the front porch, and...

Hi - hoping you can help me - my other half is away for 6 weeks and the boiler is playing up - i dont have any cover on it for repair so when he rang last night he said oh yes you just turn the pressure relief valve underneath - did that and the pressure needle went up not down - he also said...

Hi - I want to take out the ceilings in an old house and line the roof so you can see the roof timbers etc. It looks like the ceiling boarding is resting on the top of the stud walls and the roof is concrete? tiles on top with black plastic stuff under them but nothing else anywhere. Seems all...

Hi - dont know about this but Ive been told that I need to pin the wall at the back of the house before making a new door way - otherwise it will collapse! Does this mean literally bolting the wall together somehow??

Hi there - having an old house within a conservation area would normally mean that I'd have to fit nice wooden sash windows, but, some previous owner has fitted UPVc everywhere in modern styles. I now wish to replace and re-size openings back to typical sash type but think it will be hugely...

Hi - hoping here that someone can re-affirm what I already think is going on with my walls. Had a builder re-render the outside of stone house in flat finish, as it had painted over pebble-dash on it. Old pebble-dash was to be removed first, however, builder found that there was yet another...

Hi - we were flooded last July and I wish to remove the old floorbords which are uneven and have new travertine floor - but - need to waterproof the underneath somehow in case re-flooded in future, also, there is drop from centre of room to walls of approx 1 inch as old stone house has dropped...