Recent content by KeenDIYer87

I'm no expert but I own and live in a Victorian house of similar construction and have experienced similar problems. First thing I would check for is loose/missing pointing on the outside of the bay or cracks in render if it is rendered. The whole "allowing the plaster to breath" is so that...

I have an old Victorian house in Manchester which is rendered at the front. Over the years, a couple of cracks have appeared below one of the windows and when I bought the property the surveyor put it down to "longstanding movement" and not ongoing subsidence. However, one of the cracks is...

This may be a silly question but when cutting 600mm tiles do I need a 600mm tile cutter or one that's slightly longer? I need to replace 3 tiles that had to be broken to get at a burst pipe. Going to attempt myself

Hi thanks, the main issue is routing the waste pipes. The joists run perpendicular to the direction the pipes need to go so I would have to box them in, which isn't ideal

I have a room on the third floor of the house that I want to turn into a bathroom with concealed pipework. However I don't want to go chopping up the 100 year old joists. I'm thinking of creating a false floor about 6 inches higher than current level (ceiling is 10 foot, so height isn't an...