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I just found out there is a wild plant (shrub? don't know the name) next to the external brick wall of my house. It grows in the gap between the wall and the flowerbed boundary, so very very close to the brick wall. Its height is about 2cm above the ground and the stem diameter is about 1cm...

hi The edge (border) of a flowerbed in my front garden is made of terracotta (I guess, not sure, similar to that in the picture below). http://www.manufactum.co.uk/Produkt/193810/1443770/TerracottaFlowerBedEdging.html It has been there since we moved in (maybe 10+ years). Somehow some...

it is less than 1mm wide. thanks!

My house (built in 92) has an integral garage. I just noticed that there are a couple of vertical cracks on the interior wall of the garage. Some of the cracks are very thin (nearly invisible, hairline), two of them are wider and around 0.5 mm wide. I don't know how long they have been there. I...

sorry, I knocked on different parts of the wall - from sound it seems that that the top corner (where the crack is) where the two walls meet is something different, sound thinner than a normal wall,ie more empty behind it. - don't know what it is.

just usual wall of plaster board I guess.

My house is 16 years old. I just found there is a crack on the wall on top of the front door frame. It is along the line of the two walls meet, so sort of a straight line (not diagonal). It is not thick (<<1mm). The crack starts from a hole drilled by the previous owner (to pass some wire) on...

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I had a new upstairs bathroom fitted recently. Now every time (especially in the early morning) after I use the washing basin tap in the bathroom, there is a knocking noise every 20 seconds or so from the sink waste pipe (inside the wall), lasting for about a few minutes. It seems it does not...

I just had a new bathroom fitted. I found that there is a thumping noise from the waste pipes of both sink and bath when the water drains away. The noise sounds every 3 seconds or so continuously and lasts until 30 sec after the water completely drains. Any cause of this? DO I need to have...

Recently, I put down several nails on the floor board of the en-suite in my upstairs bedroom, trying to cure the squeaking noise problem of the floorboard. Later on when I opened up the front panel of the en-suite shower I saw a pipe (or cable) running beneath the floor (there may be a hole in...

dear all, thanks for your replies. so a hole on top of the pipe may be okay - normally the water will not overflow from the hole (it is waste pipe so not much pressure)? So for the moment I just leave it?

Recently, I put down several nails on the floor board of the en-suite in my upstairs bedroom, trying to cure the squeaking noise problem of the floorboard. Later on it occurred to me that there is a (PVC) waste pipe from the en-suite shower running beneath the floor (there may be a hole in the...

Hi I just had a new ensuite shower installed (by B&Q) and found a leak near the shower door. By experimenting I have eliminated the supply and waste pipes, so now it seems the leak is due to bad seal or grout somewhere near the right hand corner of the cubicle where the shower tray, door, and...

Hi I am having my upstairs bathroom changed. When the plumber took out the old bath tub and washing basin yesterday, he turned off the mains stopcock and the hot water valve in the airing cupboard (connecting the water tank in the loft and the hot water cylinder). Later on he turned the valve...

Hi Last night I used the immersion heater for 20 min to get some quick hot water (Usually I use the hot water from the exchanger of the CH system). Now even after the immersion was turned off for so many hours (but the central heating and hot water are on), the top bit of the immersion (on top...

Hi I have an outside tap in the garden. I just noticed this morning it is dripping and there is a quite big patch of ice on the brick wall (due to water splashing onto it overnight). The tap is very stiff and hard to turn (I want to turn it off more to stop the dripping). I suspect the tap has...

happy xmas everyone. I heard a sudden noise from the CH in the airing cupboard yesteday (continuous loud noise, like a big engine running), so I shut down the CH for a while. Then I turned it on again and the noise did not come back. Today I called the British gas (I have a homecare...

My house has a built-in wardrobe with bi-fold mirror doors. Now one of the doors is not able to close cos something is wrong with its top fixing: it cannot hold its position on the track, when I try to close the door, the fixing will move and the weight of the door makes it tilt. I checked the...

Thanks for all your replies. Shall I get some professional to have a look and repair the bricks, or leave it for now and continue monitoring the situation?