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Taped at the gutter end. There is a piece of lead flashing that goes across the top of the roof where it goes up to the brick wall of the house

After decorating the utility room I'm cleaning the plastic roof and redoing the silicone on all the plastics. I have noticed very small flies in between the two layers on the plastic roof. How are they getting in? I have no access to the lowest part of the roof as it borders the neighbouring...

It's a condensing dryer. We usually leave the kitchen door open and open the kitchen window when the dryers on. I consider putting a vent in but the sides are double skin plus the noise from outside etc. Its been a year and we havent had any mould in there

My utility room is single skin brick then it has that plasterboard with foam behind it inside. In the corners the paint has flaked off and cracked and we had mould at one point. We moved the fridge off the wall a bit and we havent had mould since. We are decorating the room and ive come across...

Nope it just randomly does it. I took the condensing waste pipe that goes outside out and put a small piece of pipe in. Nothing is in the bucket yet. It made the noise but wasnt as bad. If I feel up where the pipe it is quite moist and wet and their were drops on the end of the pipe. Could it be...

I've posted before but it's been a good week now and I have an update. The boiler is 18 months old. Serviced. Bled the radiators. Pressure is fine. Everything runs fine. But randomly a few times a day when the boiler isnt doing anything. Heating isn't on. No demand for hot water. It makes a...

I took them all off upstairs last night. Il see if that stops it. Its driving me insane

The boiler is serviced every year and the plumber we use said he couldn't see any issues with the boiler. I've read it could be the condensate/condensing trap?

Ideal logic it is. Couldn't tell you anymore than that. I've also bled all the radiators. Pressure was 1.25bar but in the boiler manual it says pressure to be 1 bar so I reduced it to that. I just find it strange that when the boiler is off it still does it. Should I take all the trv heads off...

Their is occasionally a humming noise coming from the boiler as tho something is vibrating. From underneath it sounds like someone is drilling the wall with a hammer drill from the other side I had all radiators changed downstairs. The boiler is an 18 month old condensing boiler. Once the...

Is it ok to run cables in the cavity on an external wall. The mains is situated in a cupboard at the bottom of the stairs. The mains is fitted in the cavity. I wired a ring main for my utility room along the cavity. Its RCD protected. When I pulled the cables through it had black on it which I'm...

I found the fault. It was a socket behind the cooker where the natural and earth had come out. A socket I didnt touch but one of the legs I messed with went to that socket. Slight movement must have caused it to come out. And I mean slight. Some peoples workmanship is shocking I'm an...

So in my house of horrors yesterday I split the downstairs ring main. I put the utility room on its own as it does power outside and has a dryer and chest freezer Now when I crimped the downstairs ring main through I had no earth and no end to end on the neutral. I knew I had no end to end on...

The vents for the subfloor are all at finished floor level. The drive and patio done before we moved have clearly raised the ground level. I guess I'm after opinions and advice on the best thing to do. The flags finished quite close but their is a slight gap between the vent and flags. Would you...

The chimney breast was removed from the front room and bedroom which I think causes a lot of issues. The back room has the chimney breast. I'd say the alcoves are worse. I've addressed the flanking noise issue by insulating under the floor and above the ceiling up to a metre from the wall with...

Would the batten frame, resilient bar and soundbloc board work or would I have to do round the fireplace. If I could get away with doing the alcoves I'd more than likely get it done

How does that work?

Thats the huge problem with having no cavity. It's so frustrating it's a lovely street and area. Massive back garden. The one fault is that and depending on the neighbours it can totally ruin how amazing the house is

I have no power supply in the loft. Just a data point. I dont know why I just thought their would be a device I could just plug into the rj45 outlet which would extend the wi-fi signal

Ours is the exact same, 1930s semi. The front and back rooms are side by side and the hall and kitchen are on the other side away from the party wall. Upstairs isn't much of a problem for us. We were going to batten and soundproof but we ended up leaving it due to coving which is very well stuck...