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I think that we paid cash to him on the day that he fitted it.

The floor is laid over a suspended wooden floor and as far as I'm aware, is blind nailed. The reason that it has started to split is that one side has filled the expansion gap and is now jammed against the architrave. The other side still had some way to go so continued to expand and then came...

Thanks for your replies. I'm not sure how big the expansion gap was in front of the door but its now nothing. It was filled with what looked like mastic. You can just make it out in the third picture where its been compressed against the architrave. I can't see the expansion gap around the...

Back in October I had a solid wood floor fitted in the hall. Three weeks ago, when the weather warmed up, I noticed that the transition into a bedroom at the back had begun to develop gaps. When I thought about it further, I realised that the front door had become more difficult to...

Thanks for that. I've been doing a fair bit of looking into this (using Google) and do you think that just digging a post hole where I'm going to put the weep holes would do it, rather than digging out all the soil? It's a lot of soil to remove otherwise.

Hi all, I have quite a serious problem with a retaining wall in the house that we need to moved into in August. Clearly the wall needs to come down and be replaced sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, I can't really afford to do this at the moment. We're planning on an extension in the...

Hi, I live in a dormer bungalow with two loft access. One is half way up the stairs (pictured) and one is in the upstairs bathroom. Both are vertical doors as opposed to hatches. As you can see, there is no insulation on them so I suspect that I am losing quite a lot of heat through them...