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Yeah from the googling i've done on sump pumps & correct installation, this has been a DIY job. There's the sump (let's say 1ft deep at a very rough guess) then there's the floor. The water level can get to 4.5"-5.0" I think it kicks in when the level gets a little over 5" as that's when the...

Yeah the joists that are in place right now - the ends are mushy & this spans down the length a bit, but the centre parts are good for the most part. Under there right now are 2 air bricks to the rear, but the vent is not a full air brick size as it's a 2" (guessing) by 2" square pipe that...

We've already got a sump pump. It removes the water but it returns. We thought things would change come the summer time but nope - returns as it always did. In an ideal world, we would. We simply don't have endless amounts of money to throw at this though. The void is 1mtr deep & the living...

We may need to replace our wooden floor - the floorboards themselves & also the joists. Problem is - the actual cause itself cannot be solved. There's water occurring underneath the floor naturally & this can't be stopped. So it's a case of managing it. The house is 80years old & i dare...

I think this is getting worse (louder/more drawn out) but my wife isn't so convinced. Pretty simple really - flush, wait a few seconds & then it starts making this weird noise. Compared to the toilet at my mums, it just seems to take ages to fill up with water. I took a video...

Thanks. Yeah i intend on only inching it & not diving in. Just taking the surface off, blowing out the dust, have i exposed brickwork? No. Keep going. Blow it out. Brickwork exposed? Yes. Stop (or do another section, perhaps cut out a square, whatever). Though i was actually referring to...

Are there any tips you guys would give? Eye protection & dust mask obviously. Steel boots & crappy clothes but i mean beyond that. There's only 1 window with 2 small openings, so i guess it'd be best to have these open fully but that'll only do so much. Get my wife to cover the rear of...

I'm a DIY dummy but more than that i'm an electrics dunce, TOTALLY!! So jargon will baffle me here. Nevertheless, i'm interested in what the process is here & how easy/costly/disruptive it'll be.... 2 rooms in question... LIVING ROOM: I imagine this one will be fairly straight forward...

Ok i have the measurements: Starting from the far left, the wall is 2.4mtr high The wall to the left of the chimney breast is 2.67mtr wide. The chimney breast then juts out at a right angle by 0.38mtr. The chimney breast is then 1.49mtr wide & then obviously juts back in at a right...

I think that's perhaps his way of saying he needs more information without saying "please can i have [this] [that] & [the other] information". We got the whole room done plus ceiling for a tad over £1600. Anyway i HAD the measurements but it seems i've left them at the house. To answer some...

Interesting, but then i wouldn't have thought the paint would continuously give off anything 'nasty' into the air? If it did then surely it'd be no good for any room, not just a kitchen? Plus it's not like we'll be rubbing our tea all over the walls before eating. Or am i missing your point?

Thanks. So for the board that's been skimmed on top & stuck to the wall by dot+dab, you'd just angle grind into this & then pull it off? & then for the other section which is plaster, you'd just dig in with the SDS drill? What then of the window area, which we were told they were...

Hopefully can come to some sort of agreement with the guys who did the work on our house so we can avoid going down the solicitor route, so i'll be needing a good idea of price for this job: Basically to board the walls & then skim. The height is 2.4mtr & the length of the wall is 7.0mtr. It...

I thought so, but i figured i'd ask to make sure as i'm just sick to death of things going wrong with this flipping house (or rather the things i'm doing).

Well, indeed! But i was meaning more for anything i should be careful of - beginner error etc. I've never used one before or done this before. The door is no longer there. It's just a stud wall now. I don't want to blast the plaster & go through the plasterboard. They never said it will...

Basically the plaster needs to come off in our living room. The chimney breast & to the left of it is plasterboarded. To the right is just plaster (a mix of sand/cement, original 1930s whatever they used - soft stuff & multifinish/bonding in there too). The window is boarded ... i think. Doesn't...

Thanks for the feedback. I only listed Endurance+ really as i was in B&Q having a read of the tins & saw that one next to the other 2. It is really the Kitchen-v-Bathroom i was wondering about. I dare say bathroom would be fine in the kitchen but not vice versa.

I do have permawhite but i think it was this forum i enquired about it on & was told that it needs to be the top coat (or perhaps only coat?). My wife isn't wanting white, she's wanting some sort of colour so i guess it'd rule that out. I emailed Dulux who obviously said Kitchen+. Due to the...