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I spoke to the tile supplier and he said it was most likely the concrete slab contracting and expanding at a different rate to the tiles. They supply a product that can be used between the layers that can stop the issue I have but it's not much use to me now! He said to keep monitoring it but if...

The room is only a sun trap when it's sunny, the rest of the time it's just normal temperature. I had the UFH installed as it was the latest fad, but I don't use it use the central heating radiator over the winter.. I might contact the tile suppliers as well, see if they have had any feedback...

Here is the inside. I am going to give the building company a call in the morning and see what they say. I won't be lifting the tiles as I would not want to damage the underfloor heating or the tiles !!

Thanks both. I have taken a look at my paperwork and the foundations are a slab foundation, which is at least 600mm thick. There is no sight of any moisture inside and the outside looks fine. This part of the floor is a sun trap so I did wonder if it had just dried out too much?

Hi, I have a solid concrete floor with electric under floor heating (that I never use) and then tiles. This was all installed by the builder/tilier when my house extension was built 8 years ago. This week I have noticed that approximately 2sqm of the tiles have a crunching sound underneath them...

The only thing is that I find the screws can be quite expensive, I brought a mixed box to start with but find I use more of the longer screws so I have brought individual boxes of them. I have also made the wooden plugs from normal 9mm dowel. There was a video on You tube, cutting them was a...

I have the Kreg K4 and K3, the K4 is really good. I have used it for making lots of stuff, I know it's not proper cabinet making but I get a good product at the end I have made these 2 items as well as lots of other stuff..

I have made 2 woodstores from pallets and also this coffee table

Thanks, yes the fence will be close to the sea, about 200 metres away ! I will go for stainless steel.

Thanks, I am going to fix the fence to the fence posts that will be in the ground rather than to the wall. This is the same way as how the old fence was built, but being an old cheap fence it has now broken down in places.

i am preparing the materials for a 3ft high hit and miss fence to sit on top of a 3ft single brick wall. What would you use to attach the vertical wood to the horizontal rails? Stainless steel nails or galvanised nails? Or should I use screws ? I will make the panels up to then fix to 3x3...

How about one of these? http://www.bahco.com/en/bahco-world/article-archive/bahco-ergo-paint-scraper-22619/ I used this to scrap all the paint of banisters and skirting boards before I then Osmo oiled them

My lounge is painted in Dulux Matt and also behind the stove. It's been like that for 4 years and no issues.

I use Osmo hard wax polyx oil for everything! Pitch pine doors, oak skirting, ash tv cabinet and oak furniture. It's so easy to use and does not have the awful varnish look! My neighbour put 12 coats of varnish on her doors, I swear she had to make the door openings bigger!!!

I built a 2 legged table that I fixed to my stairs when I painted.

This one is in the US but only £9.15... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152373037354

Yes, I had lead paint, the house is from 1890 ish so lead paint and old gas lights!!! Luckily it had only been covered by one dodgy coat of white gloss by me about 20 years ago so there wasn't to much to remove! The test kit was about £6/8 ish, under a tenner for sure. I got it from eBay.

Yes the scraper was easy, i got through a few of the spare blades. I tried the heat gun on a piece of skirting that had been removed and it was a slow process. I only had the original paint and a coat of white gloss to remove. The paint came off in flakes. Here is the finished stairs

I managed to pick up a lead paint test kit from eBay a couple of years back. The test was like a pen that you scrub on the lead and then it it turns red, lead is present. I removed all the paint on my stairs with a Bahco scraper, was much easier than chemicals or a paint stripper. Just gave me...

My daughter has just brought her first house, a Victorian terrace with the usual 2 up 2 down layout and the kitchen and bathroom extensions on the ground floor at the back. She has had the local electricity company around and they have advised to have a direct 150 litre cylinder. A plumber has...