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It looks as if someone has took a pce of the skirting off in that corner- hows best to take a brick out? Angle grinder?

Ironically in that corner the wall sticks out and I think its where all the pipework travels upstairs and where the hot water comes in to the downstairs bathroom...

The downstairs bathroom? Yes its got tiles on top of tiles! The original ones are like a red stained one

Ive done that and it looks bone dry, lots of salt on the brickwork- and also all the paint behind radiator is peeling off

1930's house Floors look pritty solid to me. Walls are solid as a rock. Wouldn't want to try knock a hole in them

Hello, The wall with the leak is the wall opposite the toilet. The waste / soil pipe from the toilet goes into the floor of the toilet, and appears to go directly into the sewage pipe under the house. You think maybe its leaking from their? The only thing the other side of the wall where...

Hello, Wondered if anyone could give me some advice. I have an inside wall which is showing damp above skirting board level. To be honest I have only been in the house for 6 months and it only become apparent when I painted the walls. Previously the wall was almost magnolia and it is now...

Hi guys I have a couple of key fobs that unlock and lock the alarm system. On the fob their is a further two buttons which I think should activate "Utility" and "Panic". None of these work but I suspect it's due to the feature being disabled. Nothing in the user manual on how to enable it...

Hello, I have a room which has been "damp proofed", but a bit worried. Am I correct in saying that the walls are drilled from the outside and filled with the cream and then the affected damp is hacked off from the inside upto approx 1mtr high and then the wall reskimmed? If you imagine...

I don't have a damp meter. Where do I get one. No pipework on that wall

Hello Guys, After I painted this wall a damp patch appeared from no where. Now before the wall was a magnolia type colour so either I didnt notice it or it only happened once I applied the paint. After giving it several coats of paint the patch didnt go anywhere, and I decided to try...

Just an update guys, bled all the rads and a tiny amount of air come out but not near enough to explain the loss off pressure. I am just thinking- do some boilers just loose pressure until they hit 1 bar then just stay still.

It was working fine before though, I only took rads off and painted behind them. I thought if expansion vessel was broke the pressure would go sky high when it was running

Hello, I have a Worcester Bosch 35cdi Combi boiler loosing pressure. It all started when I took a few rads off to paint behind them, and reinstalled them. I topped system up to 1.5bar, bled the rads upstairs after boiler was working for 1.5hrs and heating with piping hot. The only...

Skimming Wall - Should I remove skirting board? If so... anyone know what this style of skirting is?