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Hi all, I’ve started doing my garage conversion. The garage is 2 skins thick but there’s no cavity (solid wall). I’m wanting to brick up the bottom of the original garage door opening. It’ll be matching bricks on the outer skin and block work on the inner skin. I’ve installed 2 lintels side by...

Hi all, This kitchen tap is dripping. Requires the taps to be tightened really hard to stop it. Is this just a simple washer replacement. Can someone advise please. See pictures.

I don’t have the room to move the pipe unfortunately. This is a tight cubbyhole space down the side of the house bordering next door.

OK. Even though I've got the downpipe coming through the roof 40mm from the wall about halfway down the slope? At that point the lead will need cutting round the pipe and presumably open up a potential problem downstream. I've got one of these weathering slate things (see picture) for the pipe...

Sorry it's probably my terminology, this isn't my day job! It'll be stepped lead flashing going over the tiles. This matches a ground floor extension nearby so I'm fine with the look. My original plan (before reading that soakers and interlocking tiles aren't straightforward) was to do the...

I am flashing it as normal but have been advised soakers should also be used for a long term water tight finish.

Thank you. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do though. The grp secret gutter would normally work fine but I have a downpipe 40mm from the wall going through the roof where this gutter would be. So it would go straight through the gutter, which would mean it wouldn't do its job. When you say...

Hi all, I'm making a lean to down the side of my house. I have a small section of stepped flashing required (around 1.5m length). Although the use of this structure is storage/shed, I'm doing the roof in the same tiles as the house to stay in keeping. The tiles are Marley Ashmore Interlocking...

Thanks...I've got it I think. The tiles are concrete by the way. These Marley Ashmore interlocking ones to be exact to match the existing roof.

Many thanks for taking the time to post that. I'll look for a smaller multi-slate like the one you've pictured. Mine will be installed next to a wall where the leading will be stepped, like the top left of your picture example above. Any tips for installing them close to a wall with stepped...

I'm building a lean to down the side of my house. It's a wooden framed structure, tiled roof, and will be wood cladded. It's 3.5m long, and 1.4m wide. The structure butts up to brick at the end and down one side. No gutter due to the tight space. It's for similar usage as a shed, but as it's...

Thanks. Sounds like a good plan. I’ll try that on mine. The exception being the post that has snapped at ground level.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll try that when the time comes for trying to get them out. The more I think about it the more I think maybe there’s no shortcut here. Even if I got them out would I actually be able to get concrete posts into what would be a very tight hole, would I be able to concrete...

Thanks for the idea. Could work, but part of me thinks I’ll just have further problems down the road as the wooden posts get worse.

Hi all, We have a fence between us and a neighbour at the front of the house. This has been patched up multiple times. However recent winds were the last straw and one of the wood posts snapped completely. They're all rotting and have had it. I'd like to replace all the wood posts with...

Thanks for that Alastair. I'm tempted to go with the Sand/Cement/Waterproofer option and do further remediation on the chimney next year when the weather improves. Regarding the scaffolding tower, it was tied to the chimney stack. You can just about see the blue rope on the pictures. Maybe not...

Thanks for the reply. When you say applied as a basecoat you've lost me. I was thinking your option was to do a sand/cement render with waterproofer mixed in. This would replace the plaster I've hacked off. So would be around 10mm thick. I'd then have the whole wall skimmed again.

Thanks for the info. Looks like the previous occupant has decided the other flue (with no terminal) has adequate ventilation with the two airbricks, and the other flue has adequate ventilation with just the capping cowl. When I was referring to replacing the "capping" I was talking about I...

Here's some photos (below) of the external from the work we did in the summer. The stack was re-pointed, lead work checked, capping replaced to rule that out, ventilation already was in place. The chimney has been sealed since I bought the house 9 years ago, so not sure if it was swept. Yes the...

Thanks. So you wouldn’t bother trying to board it off the wall at all? I was going down that road as it felt like belt and braces. I only want to do this once. Do you have any recommendation on render and waterproofer? Standard Sand and cement? What about some of the tanking slurry options like...