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Hi all Just discovered that the previous owners made a doorway in this internal wall. Looking to remove the frame and have it as a seamless opening, but a small part of me wonders if the door frame is serving as a support, as I can't see any signs of a lintel being installed? Obvious answer is...

Hi all Appreciate this has been discussed before but just wanted to check if this should be ok... I can't run two separate wastes without one of them crossing over the top of a window on its way to the soil stack, so I want to tee the bath and shower wastes into one 50mm pipe. The shower run...

Hi all After some advice on how to fix this please. I took the tiles off in the bathroom and most of the plaster came with them, exposing this gap between the reveal and frame. It's a solid blockwork wall, no cavity. If I feel inside the gap, I can feel the end of the cill which appears to be...

I'm insulating an external wall on the inside and got to the bit round the window. I've knocked the plaster off to allow 25mm Kingspan inside the reveal but ended up knocking bits of breeze block off with it. I've built it back up again with sand and cement mortar then rendered it flat with the...

I've found lots of information on what to do when insulating a solid wall but nothing for this situation, hoping someone can help please. I'm building a false wall on the bathroom to hide the pipes, essentially boxing them in but floor to ceiling. The external wall is a cavity wall, plaster...

Hi all I'm starting work on a pair of walk in wardrobes by partitioning off some of the bedroom, the back of which is a north facing external wall. The wall is a cavity, which is insulated and not especially cold at the moment but I am aware this will change when it is closed off from the rest...

Hi all I'm planning an ensuite and as the existing bathroom is in the next room, I was planning to run the hot and cold pipes up inside the wall and through the loft above the ensuite. I can then put t-joints in along the horizontal pipes in the loft, and drop down vertically at the...

I've had a window replaced with a smaller one and the gaps to the side bricked up. To save money I told the builder I would finish off the inside so it has been left as in the photo with just the outside skin. Rather than bricks/blocks on the inside, I was thinking of insulating the outside skin...

I'm in the process of planning an ensuite and am struggling with the siting of the WC. We'll be partitioning off the far end of the bedroom making a room 3m x 1m, so the plan is to have the WC with it's back to one of the short walls, giving a decent amount of legroom. This would mean that...

I've run a cable to convert an existing one way switch to a two way but only just realised I should have used three core and earth, I have used twin and earth. Re-running the cable isn't an option as it's now been plastered and decorated. Assuming there is no way to make it work with twin and...

Our house is a former shop, converted badly by the previous owners. The shop window, which was 5.7m long and ran floor to ceiling, had been replaced with plywood on the outside and plasterboard on the inside, with a smaller window inserted. We are in the process of having the plywood and...

Hi all Our house is a converted shop, and the former shop windows have been blocked up and replaced with a much smaller window and a door. I've just found that the previous owners did this by building a timber frame, plasterboarding the inside and adding a skin of 8mm ply on the outside, which...

Hi all I'm planning an ensuite and need some advise please on whether this would work. Rough diagram below shows the toilet on the wall on the left and the proposed new soil pipe on the right. The toilet needs to be there because the window is at that end of the room so the shower would...

Hi all I am planning a new kitchen which involves moving the sink to the other end of the room. There are no outside drains on the other side of the house so I'd need to run the sink waste all the way around the sides of the room, meaning the new sink would be 10m from the current drain...