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Until recently when I moved my main TV from one room to another I had my Sky HD box feeding a second TV in the master bedroom. Everything was working well. Then I moved the main TV and satelite box to another room and now we can't get a signal let alone picture on the Tv in the bedroom whixh is...

Is this something a plumber can fix or is it a drainage thing that the builder needs to fix? It doesn't smell constantly just every few months and when I clear the small amount of faeces the smell goes away.

Sorry, noseall I don't know what these are. How do I check which I have? It sounds serious.

Hello I have recently noticed a foul smell in the bathroom. The loo flushes the bath and shower drain and there don't appear to be any blockages so I checked the manhole outside the bathroom and some faeces were still in the chamber. When I flushed the loo and watched what happened, water...

alastairreid wrote Is the render hollow behind the cracks? Yes it is. When you knock it with your knuckles it rings hollow. There are also some sections where the plaster is flaking off. Someone who saw it said it looked like it had been allowed to dry too quickly and water has been thrown on...

We have recently had work done on our house which included a full re-render of the property as required by planning. The render was completed in January and since then we have been in dispute with the builder over the cracks that have appeared in several sections of render. These cracks aren't...

What is the best (easiest for a layman) to remove old and cracked render. I have recently bought a house with areas of old cracked render and I want to remove it and get it re-rendered. I assume it is just a hammer and bolster and hack away at it. But has anyone any good tips for doing the job...

Building work finished on my bungalow in January 2012 and around that time the builder completed smooth render on the whole bungalow. Since then areas of render have cracked like mosaics or flaked and peeled off. The builder said this was caused because we hadn't painted it quickly enough. I'm...

The deeds say that it is our boundary. The deeds that origianlly parcelled up the land on which our property stands (dated 1914) have inserted a covenant requiring owners of the land we occupy to maintain the western boundary (the one with the hedge). The covenant also states that we should keep...

We have tried to speak to the neighbour but he is insistent it is his hedge. It is so far on our side that I think we would reduce it to not a lot. We don't want to cause trouble but we would like some of our land back and light for our garden.

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place but it is a sort of gardening question. We have recently bought a property with a large hedge in the back garden which forms part of the boundary between us and the neighbour. At each end of the hedge is a wooden fence. The hedge is at least a metre proud...

I have a problem with wet areas jn my garden and have been told that i could reduce the problem by rotavating a ton of pea grave into the ground. the garden area is about 12m by 8m. has anyone done this and does it work?[/u][/list]

We will use a CORGI installer when we choose a fire, if it is gas.

I have a room which is about 10' by 18' that has a chimney (class A) that we want to put a gas fire in. Can anyone tell me if we have to put one or more air bricks in the room and what size they have to be? What do building regs require? Would we need an air brick if we put in a log burner...

Thanks, jeds and freddy for clarifying things for me. Much appreciated.

Hello I have a new build and my builder tells me that the windows they have installed aren't covered by FENSA. Instead they will be signed off and approval held by the local council. My query is what comeback do I have if I'm not happy with the quality of the finished and installed windows...

I am considering installing wet under floor heating in a bungalow I'm modernising. I have spoken to different people about the type of boiler that is most efficient in terms of heat production (central heating and hit water) and get differing views. Some advocate a combi boiler others a...

Does anyone have any experience of odour eating paint? I saw it on Grand Designs and thought it would be good to put on the walls of a new kitchen/diner extension we're building. Just wondered if it worked in reducing cooking smells.