Recent content by spinley

Thankyou, Yes it is 2m from my property wall,i do know my foundations are shallow. We do not have a start date, but have heard it could be within the next three months, not had a party wall notice and the owner seems to be a law to himself. When he bought the old property he came to my door with...

Don't know if anyone can advise. 1925 detached bungalow next door has planning permission to demolish and rebuild six bed house, with swimming pool and gym excavated under the two upper floors, this build will be about two metres from my bungalow and the same to the bungalow the other side. The...

Daughter having woodburner in fireplace,the builder has rendered the back and sides with some thing called Polish render, he said it was difficult to work with and took several days to dry out but was the best. I have asked around but nobody has heard of it, people have only heard of polished...

The previous owner of my sisters house had the roof spayed in the attic with a white foam which covers the rafters and old black felt, she was advised the roof needed work. A roofing contractor has now taken off the old tiles but has left the old felt and battens and of course the spray foam...

Had new gas boiler fitted last year, wall hung with outside wall flue all in same place as previous boiler,but more powerful. Have noticed steam from flue blows onto one side of house wall due to the strong west winds i get here, this is causing the paint on wall to bubble off and make plaster...

Had new gas boiler fitted last year, wall hung with out side wall flue, all in same place as previous boiler but more powerful. Have noticed steam from flue blows onto one side of house wall due to strong west winds we get here, this is causing paint on wall to bubble off and make plaster render...

Hi, how do you replace the cord for this type of switch? not able to get to where cord is fixed un like normal pull light switch. this is the second one to go wrong in a year you have to use a lot of force to turn on and off.Thanks for any help.

Need advice how to replace leaking automatic air vent which is on top of the Grundfos circulation pump, the vent looks to screw into the top of the pump but need to know if there is any problems doing this or will I end up with a bigger problem?. I have found price for new air vent about £12 but...