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In my house's side passage I have a metal junction box just above the ground. The external lighting comes from this junction box. It has an armoured cable input from the house and then goes to two armoured cables, one feeds the front external lights, the other feeds the rear external lights...

I had a terrible carpet installation a year ago or so. Horrendous tradesman. It is a wool loop carpet I have the following issues 1. the carpet is bumpy in places - see pics 1 & 2 2. I don't have threshold bars between rooms (as thought this would look better and what the carpet guy suggested...

Hi there We relocated our staircase opening when we had a new staircase installed. The new staircase opening meant we removed a newel post where the old opening was and put a continuous banister in its place. The problem is where the newel post was originally located, the builders installed...

I tried to ‘hide’ a blind and make it look like it was coming from within the ceiling by covering it with MDF board which is flush with the wall which I then painted the same colour as the wall. There are cracks between the MDF and the plasterboard now - which I presume is because of heat...

There is a brick wall at the boundary between me and my neighbours house. This wall is made of two sections and there is a ~1.5 inch gap between the two sections - see photo. What’s the best way to fill this? Expanding foam? Thanks.

I have a question about alternating moisture levels in plasterboard. Our flat roof is 1 year old and the paintwork in the plasterboard ceiling, right by the parapet, has been peeling off and which appears to be due to a water leak from the roof. There does not appear to be any other water...

- The vertical part of the soil pipe from the toilet in our 1st floor toilet is in an awkward spot. - There are no toilets above this toilet and there is no outside venting. There is a an internal air admittance valve. - We want to move the vertical part of the soil pipe and the AAV from one...

We are relocating our toilet. The soil pipe connecting the toilet (in its new position) and the vertical soil pipe will need to have 3x 92.5 degree bends on the horizontal plane (the overall horizontal soil pipe length will be about 2.5m and would have a fall of 1cm for every 40cm). Is this...