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My daughter's house has started showing damp in the hallway that's just inside the front door. She sent a picture of the outside of where the damp is showing and one out the back. Does that look like the damp proof course has been cemented over and might be giving the issues, or am I reading it...

Neighbour had a new wall built between driveways, it goes over some sort of inspection panel so had to bridge it. Any recommendations to cover the space yet still make it accessible? Thanks

Hi, I'm looking into building a dwarf wall between ours and neighbours driveways. It's not a shared drive, we've both got our own drive,its just one open tarmac driveway with a line of pavers separating the properties. I'm currently waiting for quotes to come in. My wife today in her wisdom...

I'm looking to swap an old PIR that was in the house we bought years ago. I'm doing some decorating and the old PIR is looking tired. Taking the old PIR apart, there is 6 wires but nothing saying where/what they are connected to like the new PIR does. Can anyone shed some light on this for me...

I'll just removed a broken cabinet from my daughter's bathroom wall. There were no tiles behind it. Up in the loft I've found matching normal tiles to finish the gap but only a couple of inches of border tile. I've tried the couple of tile shops around here but they can't help with matching...

We have a part sloping tiled roof at the front of the house covering about a quarter of the downstairs dining room, hallway and garage. Its always been much cooler in the dining room than anywhere else in the house. I've just got one of those lazer temperature gauges and from inside the dining...

Hi, I'm trying and failing to come up with anything that will replace my old 1980s balustrade, either spindles or maybe glass. The problem is the 70mm newel posts are offset 70mm to each other. Not offset enough for a return. Any thoughts appreciated thank you.

Hi, we're finally got around to hopefully changing our old horrible looking stair handrail to new Newell posts, handrail, base rail, spindles etc. Problem being where the base rail would fit, it ends up at the top of the downstairs ceiling. Not in line with the top post to give a complete run...

Hi, My glowworm 18hxi has over the last few days fired up as normal, 30 seconds later goes to full throttle and stays there till it switches off from timer. It's also stuck on 73/74 in the display, turning the temperature dial either way doesn't adjust anything. The boiler is in garage and makes...

Hi, my daughter has a problem with damp on an external wall of a 3 bed semi. She bought house 2 years ago and just looked at previous survey that said "May need damp proofing in the future but not at this time". It was quite damp in places last winter, since the weather has turned is a lot worse...

Hi, I've just swept cracked concrete away from around downspout at side of house, and it came away in a few lumps. Pushed around the side of the downspout was plastic bags and someone just cemented on top of the plastic around the downspout. I'm trying to locate a 100mm grid drain that will...

Mother in law called me saying when running the hot water tap/shower the radiators were heating up. Got there and pressure gauge reading zero so tried topping it up but reading didn't move. looked online as saw the end gets blocked and a video on how to remove/clean. I undone the white plastic...

Hi, I've just had a new solid roof fitted on our conservatory. To replace the old polycarb one. The new one inside was plaster boarded and plastered. I left it 3 days and it had all dried out as plasterers recommended. I mist coated it 50/50 paint water, then 3 coats of Matt white emulsion. The...

I'm in the process of swapping years old radiators for new ones. Upstairs went ok and when I couldn't get exact size radiators I got up floorboards and adjusted pipework. Downstairs most radiators I can get the correct size except the lounge. I got the carpet up and found it was concrete. I need...

Ive got one polycarbonate roof panel that keeps slipping ever so slightly, took it off last year, cleaned up all the hardened tape which was stuck to the bars and the panel, and replaced with some double sided tape I had knocking about. I looked up yesterday and same panel had started slipping...

My tandem garage roof looks like it will be in need of replacement in the next year or two. It's got felt on it at the moment with chippings, no leaks, splits or flaps, looks decent ish, it just looks a bit tired and the overhangs into gutters are crumbling in places. I've no idea what condition...

Hi, I had a problem with boiler bypass a few months ago getting totally blocked with crud. I've decided I want to install some sort of inline filter to my open system. The best/easiest place to install would be on the return pipe to the boiler that's in the garage. The only place that it can...

Hi, I've got a Glowworm boiler (not combi) in garage with a frost stat beneath the boiler itself. Since before Christmas, the overheat stat has been tripping quite a few times with F5 on the display. I've thought I'd narrowed it down last week to a problem with the frost stat, which I replaced...

Hi, I've got an extension with a flat roof covered with fibre glass about 2 years old. For the 2nd time in 6 months I've had to clean the roof of green algae, there is about a 3 inch fibre glass lip over the edge of the extension and this seems to be causing green algae runs down the exterior...

I've recently moved house, my previous house had a combi boiler with a wireless Horstmann HRFS1 thermostat which controlled the heating very well. My present house has a condensing system boiler with hot water cylinder and controlled by a Drayton LP722 programmer. Is there any wireless...