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I have just viewed a 4 bed home in Gloucestershire built by Redrow in 2011. It has double glazing throughout and the frames are hard-wood frames. Alas there are no trickle filters (those filters located above the window, but within the frame that allow air to pass through). Should I be concerned...

Re: my last on this thorny subject - the estate agents reply was ...." I have just spoken to the owner - she said that she had the house cavity wall insulated about 7 years ago and it is insulated with polystyrene beads." Are cavity wall beads better than filling it with foam??? The house was...

An old chestnut I guess.............................is a house to be avoided if it has undergone this? Best to get a FULL survey done if the house has had this done to it?

I have just viewed a non-estate 3-bed house built in 1995 and inside the lady owner has done the house proud with its decoration and a small extension. She has however converted the garage into a utility room AND an extra room .... i.e. has divided the ex-garage into two rooms. Here is the...

Vague I know ... but I am due to look at a house built in 2012 with a flat roof (in the flat roof capital of the U.K. .... Cheltenham) - are modern flat rooves an improvement on their counter-parts of years gone by o, or still grief? How much (if possible) would it be to strip the flat roof...

I am house sitting for a pal so know nowt about his plumbing system, but after I have filled the bath up with HOT water, the water system vibrates and makes a rattling noise and the HOT tap in the first-floor bathroom vibrates too. The house warned me about this and that it can be cured by...

Just had some plastering done in the kitchen due to rising damp and had it all hacked off up to 4 foot. Is there a rough time limit until I can paint over it? Do I have to put an oil-based paint over it before I then emulsion it?

A bit vague - but how much should a builder be paid daily for routine and not dangerous (i.e up scaffolding) work in the the southeast? Also, what should one be paying a plasterer too, for three bits of plastering to be done (about 4 foot by 3 foot - each). I have heard that the latter don;'t...

I have tried to put this on the "Contact Us" part of this web-site and it does not work!!! Can you tell me how to load up photo on this site please? I can take the photos from my own hard-drive and place them into a folder but despite saying "show my images" or something similar when I check...

I had double glazed windows fitted about three years ago into my kitchen and, although little use since they have been okay until now. With this heavy rain of late, damp has come in over the wooden lintel and into the inside of the kitchen. On inspection outside (see photos), there is no sloping...

I have a terraced house built in 1884 and damp is visible and wet to the touch at a point on a brick wall that touches the chimney breast and on a sloping hardboard type diagonal wall that makes up the room in the attic. The fireplace that serves the chimney has not been used for at least 14...

I am not in the trade so will try to explain. Please keep answers simple too!! I live in a terraced house built in 1884 and due to the slope of the road, my house is one foot higher than next door. I got the exposed one foot of exposed gabling between our properties re-rendered last year due to...

Some damp has appeared coming up from the floor in my kitchen after this relentless rain (never appeared before) - I note that the air brick which is about 6 foot from the floor has been impared by a fitted cupboard placed in front of it. What's best to aid the drying out of this damp...

My house was built in 1884, so well before damp proof course was the norm for houses. Some damp has been sucked up by the plaster low down up to about a foot from the floor, on the inside of the wall. What is the way forward - to strip off the plaster and treated the exposed brickwork with a...

Folks, I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to load a photo onto this web-site from my photo album. I go to "edit" and then to "upload new images" which leads me to my photo album ....................... but is there a button to upload just the photo I want from my album? No there is not...

Folks - after this wet summer a damp patch has emerged in my kitchen, although it is not too damp to the touch (see photo). Is this damp that has travelled upwards from the floor area? The other photo shows outoor and there appears to be no damage to the brick work (which is double thickness -...

I live in a Victorian house and there is an open chimney (not been used for ten years at least) and hearth in the main room. About seven feet up the wall in line with where the chimney make a 45 degree and then goes upwards (the angle allows dust that has fallen down the chimney to settle on the...

Not sure that this is the right catergory .... but ..... the previous owners of my abode laid the floor of the rear yard (size 4 yards by 3 yards) with brick. Not only is this rather slippery in the winter, but in the summer weeds grown up rapidly between the said bricks as they were not laid...

The previous owners of my cold Victorian terraced house put the thermostat at the top of the stairs depsite any hot air generated from the heater in the ground-floor hallway going pass the said thermostat, up into the attic and out through the roof. Thus the boiler is always being called on the...

My house is one of six in a terrace, but between mine (the 3rd) and the next door (the 4th) there is a one foot drop in height as the road slops downwards, so at roof level there is a one foot exposed piece of brickwork (see photograph) as the roof is one foot lower too. For a short time damp...