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Not allowed - in a conservation area. I've lived here 30 years and when I was younger I used to paint this door myself. I filled, repaired and repainted it about 4 times, inside and out, and I never dreamed that painting just one side would cost £400.

Well, partly because I thought I would find out if £400 is about right before going ahead and asking two more. And partly because a man I have hired to do some outside work reckons he can repaint the door. He charges £20/hr but I want to test his painting skills on smaller and less noticeable...

Yes I did that. In fact that is the exact key safe I already have. Hoodlums have already ripped off the flap and turn the numbers at random to see if they can hit the jackpot. I have now removed the key from inside. It does not answer my query though. The keysafe holds a key, which I still...

Thanks. That would be good when I am indoors, have my phone with me, and the doorbell rings. But not a solution to the original question.

Had a quote from a decorator. The outside of my Victorian front door has a few chips knocked out of it over the years and needs a repaint. Just had a painter and decorator round and he quoted me £400. It's just a regular door, and only one side needs painting. Is this a fair price?

I am thinking about removing the traditional lock and putting a keypad type on my Victorian timber front door. Our door is right on the pavement, no front garden. I currently have one of those fancy locks for which you have to send off for every spare key @£40 a pop. My reasons are, I use a...

I employed a handyman whose list of skills stated painting and decorating. He started work yesterday and one task was a small job touching up some water based paintwork - wall emulsion and a water based satinwood. I was working at my desk in another room but smelled white spirit and called out...

Probably, certainly with the wetroom floor. Mind you the shallowness of the stud walls shows that they did not use the usual sized timber, and they were careless enough to have left some offcuts of plasterboard behind and it's thin, cheap and grey.

I want to see them to establish that they have used the correct materials. Your suggestion would not work because I am not a builder and did not know until someone told me yesterday that there are special materials that need to be used in a wetroom. I want to view the receipts to make sure...

I have receipts for the money I gave them for materials but they have not shown me or given me the shop receipts, which would show and prove what type of materials they have used, for example was it waterproof plasterboard or the cheapest stuff? It's all covered now by tiles etc but I need to know.

I'm very inexperienced in employing builders. I've just had a job done (installation of new wetroom) and the builder quoted me £1,500* for materials, which on request I paid him a week after he started work. He later asked for another £100 saying prices had recently risen and he'd not asked for...

It seems the controversy has arisen because the regulations have changed, but not everyone is up to date with them. Similarly, one of the most senior and most reputable building firms in my town informed me only yesterday that there MUST be two doors between a toilet and a kitchen, a law I know...

Lots of websites say no extractor is needed if there is a window. For example this page on RESI. The page was written just 5 months ago. "Under current UK rules, you either need an extractor fan that can remove 15 litres of moisture from the air per minute or a window you can open more than 15...

Aha! Thank you so much, you found the document that I could not find! Cheers!

I'm the owner. A long established local building company built the new wetroom and asked me if I wanted a fan. I did not, so they did not fit one. Now I am being told they should not have given me the option, but should have told me it's a legal requirement. Online building advice says you...

Spent ages searching for a definitive, correct answer. Old house but inside it, a section of the kitchen has been taken to create a small downstairs wetroom. This contains a toilet, basin and a shower on a riser. There are two windows in the room which both open. I have been told categorically...

PHEW thank goodness for that! I have never been so happy to read a reply to a question in my whole life! Will he know what to do? Can you tell me step by step and I will email him. He does not know I posted on here.

In all the photos I saw online of wall hung floating basins the water pipes were hidden. It did not occur to me to specifically state that it they should be hidden. I assumed that a qualified plumber would know what was needed. He also installed a BTW toilet and a shower, and everything that...

Thank you for this, I have emailed the suggestion to the builder. You say "without cutting out the tilework" -- We still have almost a full box of tiles left over. Does that change your advice?