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Hi All. I’m going to have a go at the skirtings and architraves on my house over this next week and am considering buying a nail gun. I’m not too sure what I’m buying and would like to keep the cost down so interested to know if it’s worth it? Would I be able to get something for £1/150ish...

Hi All. I’m about to start on blocking up my old kitchen doorway. It’s on an external wall, double skin (no cavity I think but there does seem to be a void in places. It’s early 1900 so I don’t think there should be a cavity so the gap might not be intentional?). There’s a timber lintel on...

The steel bar is under the lintel & is just about visible from the photo. Both that and the lintel aren’t sitting on much if I remove the fireback & the angled brickwork so it does seem that some kind of support is necessary. I’m going to block it up so will prop some wood under there while...

Thanks. Is the soldier course support enough on its own or is the lintel underneath it needed (assuming i wanted to leave it open)? I guess it must be if that’s the original opening but it’s always hard to trust that bricks placed that way up unsupported aren’t going to fall! I’ll put an air...

Hopefully this is a bit better?

And to add - you can just about see a lintel about 6” above the top of the fireback but it’s not resting in the bricks either side. My worry is that by removing the fireback I’ll disturb everything around it & there won’t be anything holding it up. It doesn’t seem wide enough to me

Hi All. I’m currently in the process of removing the fireplace in my 1900s mid-terrace. I’ve got the old gas fire out & the cast concrete surround but now I’m unsure where to go. The fireback & surrounding brings stick out proud from the wall so need to be removed before I can block it up...

Thanks for your response. It seems like the timber was there as a secondary support whilst the diagonal bit of the stack was formed but the bricks should be (or should've been) self-supporting. I didn't get a survey done as I bought it on the basis that it was a full refurb at a discounted...

Hi All. I’ve recently purchased a property (mid-terrace 1900s) and there seems to be potentially big issues with one half of the chimney at the rear of the house. In the loft, there is a big diagonal crack going through the diagonal section of the stack that goes up to the roof level. A...

any ways of preventing it/minimising the damage now its already been rendered? its too late to go back and start again with normal brickwork and i was going for the white render look i keep seeing

Hi All. I'm in the process of getting my patio done and the flower bed where the patio meets the garden has just been rendered. After doing some googling i'm now concerned that ill have issues with water getting inside the flower bed and then soaking through the breezeblocks and blowing the...

Hi All. The exterior concrete window sills on my house have seen better days and so today i decided to start working on them. Its a bay window and on the corners there are several cracks some of them a good 10mm or so wide. The paint was badly flaking and in some areas it looks like someone...

i don't have studs in my walls as they're brick (unless my understanding of studs is confused!)... i just need/want to know if standard internal brick and render walls are strong enough to support my bodyweight (multiplied due to the swinging force) - if so, what's the best fixing? at a push...

ive got spotlights throughout and i can imagine it'd be a pain getting the brackets to line up with the joists so i dont think this is a viable option.

Hi All. Im considering buying a wall mounted pull up bar to fix to one of the walls in my kitchen but am unsure if it's safe to do so or if it'll damage the walls. It's a 1930s brick built house and i'd prefer to fix it to one of the internal walls. Can anyone confirm if this should be okay...

yeah, that's what's mine has... I can't understand why they'd fit a dpc for the rest of the house and then undo all the hard work by building the concrete base up to the same level with no dpc therefore opening up for the potential for moisture to get past the dpc. I've dug down about 5 bricks...

is that actually true though? ive read that (potentially) all you'd do is stop the moisture coming up from the floor and instead it would find its way up the walls? my preference is the suspended floor as it seems like a significantly cheaper option and will also help me in that ill be left...

Hi All. I've got a 1910-1920s terrace with suspended floors throughout except for the kitchen which was a concrete slab. After panicking about potential damp issues I've decided to go down the route of digging out the slab and fitting a new suspended floor - it will make things easier when i...

Hi All. I've recently knocked through the wall between my kitchen and dining room and am now starting to think about laying some flooring. The house is a 1920/30s terrace with suspended floors throughout except for the kitchen which is concrete slab (for the most part at least - in one corner...

Firstly, apologies if I'm requestioning what's already been answered in the sticky but it didn't seem to quite fit the bill for my situation. In short, I have recently knocked down the dividing wall between my kitchen and dining room and am left with part tiles on a concrete base and part...