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Hi - hoping you can help me - my other half is away for 6 weeks and the boiler is playing up - i dont have any cover on it for repair so when he rang last night he said oh yes you just turn the pressure relief valve underneath - did that and the pressure needle went up not down - he also said...

Hi - thanks for that - Ive checked out the terminology and got a few people lined up to come and have a look - hopefully it will be done asap and I can get on with redecoration etc myself. :)

hi - apologies - still fiddling with photo uploading

Hi - yes - its hard to know if you can get a job done when people dont show up - so - here are some pics in the sincere hope that I can discover if this is feasible - thanks - think the pics are in album but dont know how to get them on here[/img]

whether it is possible to remove ceilings

Hi - so, I'm thinking that the slats of wood in between the joists/bottom trusses, can go? The house has no original walls left inside, it is all studding and the only thing left was the roof - the old chimneys went years ago and the roof space seems to have a frame (fink truss) that is original...

Hi - yes - I'll see where he's put the ladder and get up there soonest - pics to follow later then :)

Hi - I want to take out the ceilings in an old house and line the roof so you can see the roof timbers etc. It looks like the ceiling boarding is resting on the top of the stud walls and the roof is concrete? tiles on top with black plastic stuff under them but nothing else anywhere. Seems all...

Hi - dont know about this but Ive been told that I need to pin the wall at the back of the house before making a new door way - otherwise it will collapse! Does this mean literally bolting the wall together somehow??

Hi - this looks similar to our house but is all over! - its a stone and brick house and the builder rendered over the pre-existing pebble dash also. It is severely cracked from top to bottom and sounds hollow in several places and the internal side is leaching damp wet patches. We intend to...

Hi, thanks. Looks like I'll be putting this job on hold now as I've had so much troube finding suitable stone tiles, so much conflicting advice from the shops, like not to use travertine at all as it is too fragile! so - now looking at using Jerusalem Stone instead. Also my builder says he...

Hi there - having an old house within a conservation area would normally mean that I'd have to fit nice wooden sash windows, but, some previous owner has fitted UPVc everywhere in modern styles. I now wish to replace and re-size openings back to typical sash type but think it will be hugely...

Hiya - quoted for: Removal of old render and re-render, Paint with masonry paint, also other work, Strip old render from End wall and re-point stone, replace gutters, fascia board and down-pipes, so not a small job overall. Quote is not detailed about types of mortar/mix etc., so one relies in...

Hiya - I have paid all the money. The render was applied all at once, in one go, one coat, then painted later, maybe about a week later. Haven't heard of a scratch coat. Strips of metal ? were added to corners and are now showing through and going rusty - he rendered right over the telephone...

Hi - thanks - no, not member of anything alas - so it's between 'them and us' - I was thinking I could get an independant report written on the work, or suggest this as my next step. Naturally this would cost money again, so if I give him some options that will involve rectification? - although...

Hi - hoping here that someone can re-affirm what I already think is going on with my walls. Had a builder re-render the outside of stone house in flat finish, as it had painted over pebble-dash on it. Old pebble-dash was to be removed first, however, builder found that there was yet another...