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Hi Last summer we had a single storey extension with a vaulted roof built. The extension is divided into 2 rooms with a Velux in both. During the snow before Christmas when we had the snow, we noticed a wet patch to the right of both Velux windows, strangely in almost identical places in both...

Hi, Starting from yesterday we noticed a wierd thing with our toilet, the toilet flushes fine (doesn't fill up like when there is a blockage) but gurgles at the end of the flush and empties itself (almost like a vacuum at the end sucking the water out of the bowl). So after every flush there is...

Hi, About 2 months ago the steels were put in for our single storey extension. My daughter has just told us cracks are showing up in her room. Her room is directly above where the wall was removed and steels inserted. Our builder is now gone and I don't want to hassle him if this is totally...

Hi We are going through some building work and upon taking the Lino up in our kitchen we found the floor to be very wet along the outside wall. When we had the adjacent kitchen wall removed we found the cavity to be filled with what looks like concrete, as high as a couple of courses above the...

Hi I am after a bit of advice on boiler temperature settings please. We had our boiler serviced yesterday and the first thing the guy said when looking at the boiler was the boiler temp was on max and shouldn't be. We have never touched the boiler itself only the thermostat. So he thinks it was...

Hi I am hoping someone is able to offer some advice. We have just started decorating our lounge and came across a severe damp issue in one corner. The corner in question is behind a cupboard that was left by the past owners (4 years ago), so I have no idea how long it has looked this way. I...

We are starting to redecorate out living room and was wondering what people thoughts are on the best way to neaten up our aerial inlets. We are moving our TV to a different wall so I was going to extend the cables and run them under the carpet but it will still look messy where it comes...

Hi Just after a bit of advice please. We are in the process of getting an old fireplace ripped out, we want to board over the opening and put the TV on the chimney breast. My dilemma is what to do with the cables? Thinking power cable, HDMI cables and TV aireal. Rather than chisel a channel in...

Hi Is someone able to offer some advice please. We noticed a few of the bricks in our block paving has risen slightly around the drainpipe. So I had a closer look and noticed the house bricks have started going white around the drain pipe exit area. We also did notice during the winter the...

Hi I noticed a leak in the loft around our chimney early in the year. I have had 2 roofers round to sort it so far. One of them did some repointing which didn't help so i got a second roofer to look and they sorted the leading and re cemented the top (see pictures below) I dried it out...

Hi after the storm the other week we discovered we had a roof leak, it looked like water was getting in around the chimney and running down the chimney into the bedroom. I got a roofer out and he said the chimney needed repointing and that was to blame. So he came and re pointed it yesterday...

Hi I seem to be having terrible luck lately. A couple of weeks ago we had a roofer remove an old back boiler chimney due to a leak, when he was up there we asked him to cap the main chimney and re do the ridge tiles as we noticed a lot of mortar missing. I have just noticed some water on a...

Hi We have this last week had a new heating system fitted. As a quick overview, We replaced 80% of the radiators, added a small rad to the downstairs WC and replaced all the heating pipe work with 15/22mm copper pipe throughout. We removed the old Proton conventional boiler and water tank and...

Hi I have a roofer in next week to fit a flue through the roof, I want to fit a extractor fan in the bathroom this summer so was thinking if I get a roof vent now I might see if the roofer would mind installing it while he is up there and the scaffolding is up. I have been looking around and...

Hi I am after a bit of advice please, we have recently decorated a back bedroom but have just discovered a water mark on the stud wall next to a chimney breast. We used to get mould in this corner which we put it down to the large amount of condensation we got in this room (now fixed after...

Hi, a couple of years ago I had an issue with condensation in the loft. We fixed the problem by installing felt lap vents: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00M9ILJPG/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_fabc_0bMYFbF6HRYMA?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 I have just been into the loft and was greeted by condensation (not as bad...

Hi I’m hoping someone may be able to help me, I made a very silly mistake on Monday and drilled a hole in a water pipe while relaying some floorboards. I have a gas boiler with an immersion heater, when I hit the pipe I turned off the main water and all three valves I have in the airing...

Hi I’m hoping someone may be able to help me, I made a very silly mistake on Monday and drilled a hole in a water pipe while relaying some floorboards. I have a gas boiler with an immersion heater, when I hit the pipe I turned off the main water and all three valves I have in the airing...

We have recently moved into our new house (built around the 1970’s) and we want to board our loft for extra storage. I have been up and moved a section of the 200mm thick insulation out the way so I could see what I had to work with. It seems there are are 3 main beams (50mm x 100mm) running...