Recent content by Marylou1974

Hi and thankyou for your replies. The house is already a mess of bricks and short of ordering and having made bricks to match you simply do not get the bricks in the same colour anymore. The house already stands out in the street as they are a yellow and red buff style. Very 70's and...

thankyou so much.. have booked a couple of builders to come out this next week... hopefully it wont be too scary! thanks again marylou x

Hi, we are about to have some work done on hte house and the bricks are that foul 1970's yellow buff .. although many are replacements from work that was done. Also hoping to get oak windows put in in different sizes so we have decided to have the house rendered. Any advice on what we should...

Hi, we are about to have some work done on hte house and the bricks are that foul 1970's yellow buff .. although many are replacements from work that was done. Also hoping to get oak windows put in in different sizes so we have decided to have the house rendered. Any advice on what we...

Hello guys :D Thankyou so much for all your advice.. I think I might have it covered as it were... as I have just stripped a wall off and found a huge great big crack in one of the walls! going around the house at the front you can see some stress cracks in some of the bricks and I have...

Hi, one of the bigget building jobs in my house is to be the addition of a wall in my kitchen to accomodate a utility room and then knocking through to the dining room (currently a bedroom) to put a 4.5ft set of french doors in. Now the wall I want to knock through is 14ft wide and I want the...

Adam you're an angel thankyou :D I am anticipating problems to be honest.. and I am fully redecorating anyway... so I suppose in the scheme of things its not the biggest issue in the world. Although I didn't want to have to put most of the house into storage to get everything done.. but...

Hello everyone... first... I am SO THANKFUL I have found this forum I cannot tell you. I have just bought my first house of my dad (lives in a nursing home) Now dont get me wrong.. its mainly in a great condition and I got a BARGAIN! BUT... I think I might need a rewire.. I have an old style...