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I like your thinking, but as its half way up the gable end side wall of a very traditional victorian country house, I don't think its quite the right for this house.

A section of render on the side of our house was damaged when we were having the coping stones of the flat roof replaced on our extension. It's been repair patched but where it has been painted it now looks glaringly white compared to the rest of the render. Its right on the most visible bit of...

Thanks both. Sorry, should have said that its a Victorian solid wall house, so no cavity tray. The extension walls certainly conform as everything has been inspected throughout by building control and was built (if badly) to architects specification which was signed off by BC. I can dig out the...

We have a mysterious leak in our new extension and we're struggling to work out what's going on. I'm not convinced posting photos will help with understanding what's going on as the leak doesn't appear to be coming from anywhere visible so there's nothing exactly to take photos of, but to give...

we have a very beautiful Victorian front door that is in overall very good condition, but isn’t fitting tight with the frame at one corner. Having never adjusted a door before I’m reluctant to take out the old hinges until im sure the correct thing to do, but need to sort it out as it’s very...

We would definitely not be taking more than 20 cubic meters a day, so I don't think a licence is of concern.

Here you go - this is the well as it is at the moment. The first two pics show what we uncovered, which was a manhole cover buried in the garden. The third pic is the top restored to a circle with new bricks so we can put a circular cover in the kitchen floor...

The well is victorian. Its on greenbelt/farmland. The water is simply coming from the water table - easy enough to see as we reached the same water level when digging for the extension foundations. As it'll only be used to water the grass and top up the pond etc, not for drinking or bathing I...

No, I’m in surrey Andy, Why? Bernard, does the foot valve go in the well end or the garden end? Thanks for the advice.

Anyone?

We've uncovered a well in the foundations of our new extension. We plan to put a glass cover on the top to have as a feature in the new kitchen floor, but whilst we can access it, I'd also like to put in the capability to pump the water to use to irrigate the garden. I'd prefer not to use a...

We're buying a big victorian detached house which we are fully refurbing. Part of the work is to open up the two rooms across the rear of the house to make a large kitchen, adding a small extension. Due to the layout its going to be hard to put any radiators anywhere (too many openings and doors...

The control panel isn't stuck at 00:00, it just seems to have reset to 1 June and restarted at 00:00. It's now moving forward. I was so hoping to avoid having to take the box off the wall. It's really inaccessible!

No, no smart meters. It's on an outside wall and we're the end of the road so no neighbours to worry about.

Yes. The PIR's etc have had new batteries as needed- we've always had error alert sounds on the panel when they needed them, but nothing this time. The sounder also had a new battery in the summer. I've tried replacing the battery in the keypad but it's made no difference. The main panel is...

We've had our Yale 6400 installed for about 4 years and it's been working just fine until today. My other half suddenly noticed that the doors weren't beeping when opened. Now we've realised that the remote keypad also isn't responding. The lights on the keypad are lighting up but it's not...

We have a tiny alleyway to the side of our house (slighly less than 1m wide) that would be ideal for storing our bikes if we could keep them dry and secure. We have a wooden shiplap fence with concrete posts to one side and a flat, rendered wall to the other. There is already a wooden gate to...

KFZ, I'd still be interested in what you did, even 2 years later!

We have two bathrooms (one with bath, one with just a shower) we inherited with our property that both have stripped floorboards that are causing us problems. They look very lovely and the previous owner has obviously gone to some trouble to fill all the gaps with slivers of timber and seal it...

I had my ground floor flat completely refinished early this year. The walls were all reskimmed, with some bonding in places where needed, and the outside walls were repointed where the pointing looked bad. For the first few months we had a problem with an intermittent leak from the flat...