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Hello, My early 60s house has a hipped roof where the four purlins sit on five brick supports. Two of these look wonky, which is a little concerning. I show the two wonky ones and one that looks fine for comparison. Is this something to be concerned about and should I have them re-built? If so...

Hello, I've got these OSB loft boards which are pictured. The instructions are saying they need to be acclimatised first, but the lack of words / explanation, and the strange wording that is used, leads to some questions. It says "enabling after adolescence 48 hours"... which translated into...

Hello, The waste hose from my washing machine goes into a standpipe. I have the hose running through a clippy bracket thing on the wall, with added gaffer tape, just before it goes down into the standpipe. This seemed to work better than the U shaped piece of plastic I got from Amazon, which I...

Hi all, I have moved my washing machine into a different room and discovered that the flood proof (sometimes called aqua stop) inlet hose has turned red on the mechanism part. This apparently means the inner hose has leaked and according to the manufacturer, AEG, I must now replace the hose...

Hi all, Does anybody know what the seal is at the bottom of this tap, between it and the drainer? I think it needs replacing as water can drip through to the cupboard below. Many thanks

We have a fairly new stainless steel sink and draining board in the kitchen. We had a stupid dish rack on the draining board for storing dishes on before we got the new dishwasher, and the rack started going rusty at the bottom. That rush seems to have stained the stainless steel draining board...

Hi all, I had a composite door fitted a few months ago on my new extension. I keep noticing that when it rains a lot, the bottom of the frame fills up with water, to such an extent that the two draft excluder strips end up completely saturated. How they will end up drying I don't know. I had...

Hi all, I have had to move a toilet in an ensuite. I won't bore you with the details. The upshot is that it is now located on a more uneven part or the floor. This means that the toilet isn't level, being around 4mm lower on the left side than the right. I am not in a position to self level the...

I am measuring this by filling a 1L jug and timing it. I have been doing this with the cold water tap only. However, if I open both hot and cold, the flow rate is stronger. Which reading represents the flow rate for my home? Online sources say to only use the cold tap, but shouldn't it be based...

Hello, Long story short, next door neighbour's property is on higher ground than mine. Perhaps 8" in the difference. I inherited drainage problems at the front garden and side of the house when I moved here and after a lot of hard work that didn't fix the issue, I just had the front lawn and...

Hello, I want to put a pitched roof over a flat roofed extension. The truss roof has been designed and there would need to be a box gutter at the bottom of two roof slopes - the proposed one and existing. Do these things work well and last or will my new pitched roof end up with an achilles...

Hello, We are tiling floor and walls using 300 x 600 (9mm thick) tiles. The floors are bare concrete and the walls are 12.5mm plasterboard with a paper covering. I'd be grateful for advice: A) do we need to use primer on the floors and walls? If so, which type? Gaps between plasterboard have...

Used Benfer 2-50fl on a new concrete floor primed with SBR. Greatest depth around 15mm. Builder who has used it is experienced and used the product before, albeit less depth. He measured out correct amount of water. Doors closed. Not particularly warm in the room. Anyway, he has run his spiked...

Used Benfer 2-50fl on a new concrete floor primed with SBR. Greatest depth around 15mm. Builder who has used it is experienced and used the product before, albeit less depth. He measured out correct amount of water. Doors closed. Not particularly warm in the room. Anyway, he has run his spiked...

Hi everyone, I am having a new water main installed at my property tomorrow - 25mm blue pipe buried in a 750mm deep trench. The idea is to put builders sand at the bottom and just on top of the water pipe as bedding although the installer is somewhat reluctant to do this saying it isn't really...

Hello, I'm having new windows and doors fitted into a new extension next week. The bricks are Staffordshire multi rustics. I've asked the window fitting company to use brown silicone as my previous experience suggests that window fitters often leave a nasty silicone finish on these rough bricks...

Since roofers seem to clock off at 2pm and are probably all in bed, and I need answers quite urgently, I'm posting this here. It is a building related issue anyway as touches on different factors. Hello, Where the roofs of my existing house and extension meet at the GRP ribbed valley tray, the...

Hello, Where the roofs of my existing house and extension meet at the GRP valley tray, the tiles on the existing roof seem to kick up a bit at the end so you can see a slight wavey effect when you view it from further back. Not nice and straight. This seems to boil down to the rafters on the...

Hello, I had a new ensuite installed in a bedroom approaching two years ago. Just a toilet and sink. I paid a plumber to do the whole job. Toilet and sink wastes go through the outside cavity wall and into the soil pipe serving the adjoining bathroom (old cast iron soil pipe was replaced at the...

Hello, Just interested to hear any thoughts on this. The roof truss company "helpfully" designed a roof where the main girder truss goes over a doorway and sits on the wall plate of the internal wall, below which is a timber lintel. This didn't become apparent until we started putting the roof...