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Here are some photos I took a few days ago. Maybe I will take some more photos tomorrow.

I fitted the boards and there are plenty of screws. All cracks are on the joints and in both directions. I would say roughly 30% of the joints have developed cracks on those two rooms It is puzzling as there are so many cracks, not just one or two. Why are there no cracks at all other...

Did you ever fix it? What did you do?

Two rooms were plastered a month ago and the ceilings have cracked in many places and it would seem right over the plasterboard joints. The cracks are hairline but are there. I only noticed them yesterday. The plasterers said they put tapes over all joints, but I was not there to witness it...

They, and their mates, are all raking it in. This should be the foremost thought in everyone's mind when voting.

The markets go up and down like a wh*res knickers, there is no rhyme or reason, and if you think there is (rhyme or reason) then you are a billionaire and clearly on the wrong forum.

I want to install a staircase and am trying to decide if I should just place it straight over the screeded floor, or should I place say 18mm plywood for whatever reason or some other preparation? The floor will be covered with engineered wood flooring around and under the staircase.

I do not think so, in my opinion she is yet another scapegoat. Sunak was the chancellor when we wasted/lost many billions of pounds to family and friends of politicians with PPE, track and trace, furlough schemes, work from home rebates and more. The amount of sleaze in the tens of billions and...

I have an ensuite bathroom and right next to it the downstairs cloakroom. Both are situated in the middle of the house and ventilation is impossible. I had an idea to go down through concrete floor into a basement but the area (crawl space) is very hard to reach and work in. I am not sure what...

How do plasterers/builders close the reveals on external doors? Tried today to stick a piece of plasterboard on one reveal at the utility room door, it is a cavity wall and we have 100mm block, 100mm cavity with plastic cavity closer over it, and finally the door frame. The cavity closers are...

I have had 3 separate groups of plasterers to work on various areas of my new house and they all complained about how quickly the blockwork sucks in water and is prone to cracking. On the photos you can see how one group of plasterers left the job one afternoon, everything has cracked and in...

I will do just that, full planning for a single storey extension to the back of the house with a lot of glass, even on roof. Not sure about the required U values so will have to do some reading.

I have just asked my building control to let me know what they think. I have also read some very old threads about needing to keep it separate from the house and then you are OK as far as BC is concerned, by means of a door to separate the house from it, which people then remove...

I have been re-building (literally it seems) my house, past 3 years, with a side, front and roof extension. We have always had a large-ish patio which I am thinking of converting to a conservatory. The patio is at the back of the house overlooking the garden and spans almost the full width of...

Thank you, but unfortunately I cannot use that. My house is littered with steel beams and columns, inside the blockwork, inside the floor, above, below, everywhere, and there are hundreds of timbers, joists and plywood floors and timber partition walls notched/attached to the steels. My...

Trying to "box in" steel columns and beams, and make the coverings as small as possible. I insert noggins into the steel beams and then directly fix plasterboard strips onto these noggins. But when I need to cover the flanges of those columns and beams, I was thinking of glueing a...

I have had a few rooms and areas hardwalled and then plastered. All the different plasterers (about 4) applied the hardwall in one pass and then kept going over it to smoothen it out, but 99% of the hardwall material was applied in the first pass, thickness depending on the blockwork which is...

I have had a few rooms hardwalled and then plastered and they have failed to produce straight vertical lines on the inside corners where two perpendicular walls meet (eg the 4 corners of a room). I appreciate it is all done by hand and down to the skill of the individual. Could they have used a...

I have a few areas of vaulted/angled ceilings, with many angles, and the plasterboards are not perfect, and am wondering how to achieve straight lines on inside and outside angles? What sort of metal bead could be used or some other technique? On the photo you can see the straight lines at the...

By "fuse" I mean whatever circuit breaker they use.