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We live in a mid-terrace 1920s house with solid walls. The living room and kitchen have quarry tiles, while the dining room has a suspended floor. The main problem at the moment is in the living room. We have damp along two walls, and we also have laminate flooring, which I know isn’t ideal for...

We live in a mid-terrace house, and the upstairs ceilings at the front and back slope for the last 16 inches or so. The problem is that the ceilings are old lath and plaster, so they’re pretty thin, and these sections have no insulation. The rest of the loft is boarded, although not very well...

I have a 1930s house with some damp rising along 2 of the walls, nothing major apart from some flaky paint on 1 of the walls. It's 9" brick solid wall with a very small cavity of around 20mm. I have got some of the Dryrod kits off Amazon, there is an existing damp membrane that I can see along...

I knew the 1 pot was leaning, but now have scaffold up and have been able to take a better look. I need to redo the flauncing and reset the pots, I did the other chimneys flaunching in 2/1/1 of sharp sand, builders sand and cement. The top 3 exposed courses are going to likely need rebuilding...

I am trying to decide on what hearth to use for a new stove, the stove is suitable for a 12mm hearth so shouldn't get too hot. I have heard of a lot of people with stoves where the hearth as cracked. I was looking at something like this 2 piece slate hearth...

I know if you have a stove inside the recess then it needs to be 125mm of non-combustible material, what about the hearth outside the recess, does that also need to be 125mm if the stove sits in the recess or can that be less? I have widened my opening and the actual recess was built up to about...

I have just removed a inset gas fire and the chimney sweep is coming next week. I want to install a stove and the existing opening is d17cm w44cm h70cm which seems quite small. There appears to be a gather in front with a metal lid on top, I though it had a small back boiler or something but it...

Our existing loft hatch is above the stairs and high landing, I have to get the big ladders everytime I need to go into the loft. Quite dangerous, so I am looking to add a new bigger loft in the master bedroom. The joists are spaced approx 500mm apart, the new loft hatch will be 700 x 1100. The...

Our boiler is currently located in a small bedroom, we are looking to relocate it into the loft to make the bedroom a little bigger, we I know the loft needs to be boarded, guard rail and lights, is there anything about the loft hatch being above a steep flight of stairs? I would need to have...

I have a Baxi Solo HE 15 regular boiler, system is open vented with a F&E in the loft for the rads. Upstairs only had rads in the bathroom and back bedroom so i have installed rads in the 2 front bedrooms and moved the back bedroom rad, i have used Speedfit and plastic pipe. Filled system...

I am currently doing some work on a house i have bought and have builders in doing upstairs, just discovered plaster on living room walls apart from chimney breast is blown in various places and very crumbly. I have taken 2 walls back to brick already and intend to plasterboard the living room...

Had a service yesterday and my inset gas fire was condemned, i'm thinking rather than replace it i would like to switch to coal. Wouldn't use it a lot since mainly use rads but will be nice now and then. The opening is there and gas engineer did a smoke test and checked the flue visually and...

Just moved into a house, it was underpinned in 1998 due to what was likely to have been historic settlement which was mainly along the party wall, particually towards the rear. I had a engineers report done and it came back ok, apart from a few things which need repairing. The floors...

I have a window with a crack about 10+ inches running down under the sill to the right of the window, with nearly an inch gap in places where all the mortar has come away i think, one or two of the bricks might also be cracked, it looks like it goes through since there is a crack on the render...