Recent content by Apophany

Hi, I'm getting damp at one corner of a uPVC window and trying to figure out where the water is coming from. We had a new roof installed above the window, and the roofers have been back twice to check that the water isn't coming from above and they confirmed it's all sealed. From what I can...

I think it's solid, they're pretty old, the house is victorian but I'm not sure they're original. The central wood panels are very thin and they're quite misaligned so the door isn't really in good condition in the first place. The only reason I'm hesitant to just replace is that I believe we...

Yea no idea! I thought maybe they stuck some kind of decal on the back of the door because it was a kids room, but they must have taken it off a while ago since there's so much hair/grime stuck to it now. Unfortunately we don't have an outdoor space but I could try white spirits It's a Bosch...

Hey, We have an old wooden door that the previous owners which has some super sticky residue left on it from the previous owners along with accumulated hair and dirt D: gross! Originally I thought I'd sand it off and then repaint, but I've just tried sanding with a machine using 80 grit at the...

So I went ahead with just using the filler, seemed like the quickest thing to do. Unfortunately doesn't seem to have worked as the filler never hardened properly even after 2 days, so the texture is still a bit like putty if you press on it. I've tried applying another layer of the filler on...

Hey, I've just taken out some self screw plasterboard fixings in order to do some painting, and they've left quite a large hole in the wall which contains some very crumbly material. It's an internal wall, but I'm not sure if it's plasterboard, lathe and plaster, or something else I don't know...

There was previously a gap between the frame and the cill, but the roofers sealed that, along with all the other edges of the frames when I complained to them about the water ingress. I can try and remove that seal at the bottom of the window and then do a water test to check if the drainage is...

Hi, We have a uPVC window in a dormer, and we've recently had the roof of the dormer changed, along with the tiling on the side cheeks. We also had the interior replastered, and since then I've noticed that when we have heavy rain, the interior window sill gets very wet at the edge. I'm not...

It was originally all the insulation that there was, but as part of the re-do of the roof celotex boards are being added between the rafters and any other gaps are having soft insulation put in. The internal insulation and additional plasterboard were only discovered when they cut the hole for...

Thanks for having a look. What do you think about that textured material that would have been on the old ceiling before the fake ceiling was added? You can see some of it in the 2nd and 4th picture, the white textured stuff

Hi, We currently have some roofers in to re-do our roof and install some velux windows. The house is victorian and was converted to two flats in the 70s/80s. The veluxes are being installed in loft rooms on the upper floor. Yesterday the roofers cut the two holes in the roof to install for the...

Hi, I bought a shelf which I would like to fit to a solid wall in a Victorian property. The wall is the dividing wall between us and the neighbour, so I assume it's brick. From what I've read they tend to be about 225mm thick, so I should be safe to drill in to at least 100mm? The shelf is...

Thanks for the replies so far. Does anyone have any comment on the voltage detector and whether the light is safe to work on even though its still showing a reading? As mentioned, I had turned off the mains fuse already. Thanks

Thanks. Yea, don't really care about the LED lighting up tbh, happy enough for it to stay off

Hey, I'm trying to replace a 1-gang light switch due to a faulty toggle which keeps falling out of the switch plate. I've attached a photo of the existing circuitry, but it consists of fairly straightforward live and neutral in to the switch, and an earth cable which is screwed in to the...