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The upstairs wall in our front room moves when I push on it :( I can get it to move about 5mm back and forth. The house is 100 year old, it's a double skinned wall, this is the interior skin of the external wall the cavity is currently open by the window waiting to be plastered. The exterior...

Making some floating shelves and I want to check they will be strong enough and if there are any alterations I should make. Shelves will be 120cm long by 30cm deep, supported on 3 sides by brick work. Planning to use 38x64mm timber frame screwed to the brick and lap jointed to each other...

Ah great, thanks for the info, when screwing the joists to the ledger, do you put the screws in at a 45 degree angle?

Thanks for the reply, I was planning to attach the main beams to the posts with carriage bolts, and then screw the joists to the main beams, would I be better using joist hangers instead? The deck is only a few cm's above the ground, I was thinking of cementing in paving slabs as the ground is...

blue is posts and ledger, red is joists. Just looking to see if there is anything I should change, if it's over engineered etc. Posts are 80x80 every 1.5m and joists I'm planning to use are these...

Its 15ft up but I'll try

Okay that makes sense, we where thinking of getting the rendered window replaced. But the brick window is only 6 months old and is doing the same thing, I don't think the problem is th window on the brick one as the water goes along the length of the stone (where it meets the brick) then stops...

I've taken pictures of the rendered wall as the brick is on the first floor

Sure John, ill take some tomorrow in the daylight!

This is happening on 2 different windows in 2 different walls. 1 wall has just been silicone rendered the other repointed brick with lime mortar. The windows have the cavity open so you can see the inside of the external brick wall from inside the house. The water is coming in on top of stone...

There is a lot of conflicting methods on building a deck so i’m looking for your idea of best practices. I’m laying a deck that is approx 24m2 over 3 levels, each level is 40cm, 30cm and 15cm above ground respectively. Is the deck best going on 100mm x 100mm decking posts/stakes at 1.2m...

Should I make an actual stud partition, or just screw 3 timbers side by side? With a stud partition the noggins would only be a few cm across

What's the best way to build the wall on the right out 20cm so that its inline with the perpendicular wall at the back. I'd like to then hang a door, sealing off the space on the right. you can see the difference with the gap in the floor.

:( I'll just try and not set anything on fire. In your opinions, what's the best way to remove the centre bricks without breaking them, as they're firmly attached to the surrounding ones? Should I just remove all the bricks in between the blue lines at once - as they're completely separated...

Thank! Yes there's a top opener, the image only shows the bottom 1/3 of the frame, the Window's approx 6ft tall.

Really appreciate all the advice, I've discovered this whole house has been bodged over the years. Am I okay to use cement mortar or should I use lime? And when you say centre, do you mean the centre in between the blue lines? There is 1 other installed this way, they all open fully though.

The outside is sealed with foam and sealant. You're right that I should get them refitted, I suppose the window isn't very safe. In terms of the bricks, would I have to remove each one and relay, as a pose to just repointing? The reason I ask is because the bricks in the middle of the blue...

Intend to just dot and dab replaster. The flue has not been swept but the downstairs one has.

What drew me to the issue was we had a new window fitted, they had to remove the plaster around the window to remove the old PVC frame, exposing those 2x4's. The plaster below the window was blown which I removed to re-plaster and found the bricks. No there is no other window in that bedroom...

I have a bunch of loose bricks under an upstairs window which I have uploaded pictures of. When taped, a big section of them moves as one, I've outlined this in blue in one of the pictures. Should I remove the bricks and relay them, or just repoint around them?