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Hi, I've posted previously about this so a year later I am getting round to this. I'm removing these sleepers as rotten (thought I could lift them out er'hem). The concrete surround is falling to bits also. I'm frightened I'm doing more destruction than construction as there's sand and...

Hi, I have just had all our floorboards replaced in our dining room but they couldnt take out this surround. They filled the holes, as you can see, but it just looks ugly. The builder said we should paint it black but i think there would just be too much black!i would appreciate some...

Thanks for your reassurances. So it's not a crack going all the way through the breeze block then and is just a superficial plaster crack over laying the brick? We want to redecorate, do we just scrape back and smooth over the plaster ridge/crack with filler then? Thanks

Ree, I apologise if I have offended anyone, including you and Richard, who has contributed. If I hadn't acknowledged a contribution then it would have been an oversight rather than a deliberate intention.

Thanks. We have been in here 8 years though and what was just a ridge previously under the paint/wallpaperI think has now turned into a crack. The crack runs wall to wall though and not just above the window although it looks worse in the middle of the room for sure. The house is on a slight...

Hi, What was just a ridge in our front room has now turned into a long crack. I have checked outside and there appears to be no exact crack the other side on the render but there are other long spider cracks. The house is 90 years old. I have been told that houses move but this crack looks...