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Thanks John. Not sure if we can shift the pipeworks, but will probably get a plasterer to have a look and see if he can deal with it... Good point on lifting the laminate! Thanks... there have been a lot of things in the house tradesmen came in and told us they are wrong... tiling is a good...

FTB bought an old house recently. Vendors removed their white goods, and now I'm looking at the horrible kitchen walls behind the units... This one is an external wall, behind washing machine and dishwasher. I'm wondering if I should/can plaster it as it's exposing some brickwork already...

Thanks a lot. We'll have a go with this... Thanks! We'll strip it off where the peels are already bad, but some other areas seem to be quite well attached so we'll try the fillers first...

Hi, we are FTBs/DIY-newbies. Could someone please give some advice on how to deal with these cracks/holes in old painted-over wallpaper? It's an old house and there seems to be multiple layers of wallpaper underneath, so we want to just paint over them (like previous owners did!) rather than...

Got you. Thanks again!

Thanks for the advice. That means knocking open a lot of the walls though? Wonder if it would be a bit too much to tackle by myself...

Thank you!

Hi all, I'm buying a house with a guest bathroom on the first floor. The bathroom is a bit small (1.84mx2.38m), and currently has a bath and a shower cube in it which feels a bit crowded (pls see floor plan attached). I'm thinking about removing the shower cube, but not sure what's going to...

Thank you very much :)

Hi all, thank you very much for replying. The reason I'm asking is that: 1) I'm no expert on this, but heard that if the problem is with the bay window foundation movement, the cracks should appear at the joint between the bay window and the main body of the house? which is not the case here; 2)...

Hello, I'm FTB so a bit nervous when I saw this in my building survey (though it was flagged as an orange but not red issue): "There is evidence of repaired cracks to the front bay window's masonry, below the ground floor window opening. This type of movement is common and is likely caused by...