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Hi You are partly correct in saying condensation does cause mould but so does high humidity, in fact humid air can hold more moisture thus leading to mould. This is what is really odd, the sofa was against a supporting internal wall but not directly against due to the radiator being behind it...

Hi, I have just lifted the carpet and the floorboards are completely bone dry, nothing weird so far. Also the air is naturally more humid in warmer weather than in the winter, usually the dry air that comes from central heating dries out the humid air. A common misconception is because the...

We are going to lift the carpet in the living room and check it out and lift a few floorboards to see what is going on, when we bought the house it had carpet down and the floorboards seemed ok 6 years ago.

Hi, I have just had to throw out our really nice sofa we purchased from Ikea only a few years ago. The reason for this is because I discovered white and yellow mould spores on the bottom edge of the sofa arm rest. Upon further investigation I found the sofa to be riddled with mould...

Top advice there, thanks very much I will give it a go.

I have all the tools necessary and I have done some pointing before so no issues there. To be honest I am not a hundred percent sure if it is built with lime mortar or not, but it is clear I need to get a second opinion on this one. Many thanks

It does indeed Stuart, pity they don't tell you this when you buy your first house. Lol. Not bothered about the mortar looking black as there is nothing uniform about the house. The front elevation is stone fronted and the rear is red brick with the top half pebble dashed. I am more...

The rear elevation of the house is looking like it is has never seen the light of day of fresh mortar and is looking in the need of some maintenance. We live in Yorkshire and many of the houses of this era seem to be held together with some form of black mortar? A chap that plastered the house...

The pipework isn't so much as dodgy but more the fact that it is short. The set up for my current Franke tap is two copper tap tails coming out of the base of the tap into flexihose then connected to a service valve. The flexi connectors that come with the tap are 400mm and I need 600mm. For...

Hi I am imagine most Franke Kitchen mixer taps are pretty similar in the information I require, but it a sad time when not even Franke can give you the information I need. The tap was purchased direct from Amazon, at the time I did not know it was a Polish tap and not a UK model. The...

I am looking to install a basic cooker hood in a new-ish kitchen and I would like to know if anyone has any advice on the installation. I am currently in search of cooker hood that costs under £150 but has a reasonable extraction rate to be wall mounted. We currently do not have a cooker...

Hi We have an old unused cooker socket that has a spur with a 2 gang socket for a 13A cooker and 3A hob. We are looking to install a 13A extractor fan which just plugs into a socket and therefore requires an additional socket. Can we just take a spur of the cooker socket? Mandy :?:

I am looking to install a basic cooker hood in a new-ish kitchen and I would like to know if anyone has any advice on the installation. I am currently in search of cooker hood that costs under £150 but has a reasonable extraction rate to be wall mounted. We currently do not have a cooker hood...

Hi Yes there is a generous gap under the door of at least 10mm.

Hi There are no air bricks in the bathroom, but a generous sized gap under the door and there is always a window open in my bedroom which is adjacent to the bathroom. Plus we have also tried leaving the window slightly ajar to get a little more air flow in the bathroom and so far non of the...

Hi, I would give most things ago as I am very competent but if I have that small amount of doubt in my mind that I am unsure I never wing it. If you do that is when it could get dangerous and not just for you but for others living in the house especially when it concerns electrics. Plus it...

It is like anything you take on if you believe it is well beyond your experience or skills you don't touch it....simple as! I would not go into someone's house vent an extractor fan with an external grill internally and then try and cover up or bodge the job when a customer expresses...

I am afraid not as that would have been my best option. :?

Hi, We have just had a bodge job by an electrician trying to vent an extractor fan through drop eaves which is almost impossible. We have told him to we will get a price for a slate roof vent as we were not happy with the fan almost venting inside the loft. Is there anyone that could...

Hi, I recently posted a query on here about the installation of a bathroom extractor fan and after going back to my electrician that I found through "My Builder" and expressing how underwhelmed I was with the fan and I was worried about how he had vented it I think I may have found the answer...