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Looking to try and increase privacy / reduce sound. I get on well with my neighbours - but their extension (previous owners built it) door looks right down into my garden, plus the kids play TV quite loud - which broadcasts out into my garden. The posts in the photos are 2m, and just basically...

Hello Just looking for advice. I've just replaced a pretty old kitchen extractor hood, all good, but I've noticed the old one has a 10cm diameter pipe, the new one fits 150cm pipe. The total length is about 3m. The problem I have is the old pipe pushes through a gap about 10cm between the...

Hi. My house has a underfloor cellar area, full height, concrete floor, about 2x2.5m in size. The rest of the house is just 'crawl space' but the section to the back is about 1.5m high, and I'm wondering if the access hole could safely be made bigger, then the dirt floor dug out (if possible)...

Been viewing a house- about 1970 brick/render roof tile house in Scotland. I'm just wondering what the boards here could be - and more so, if there's any issues with them.... Thanks Pretty sure they were a Wimpey development in about 1970/1980

I had someone knock out a wall under the stairs so I can build some large pull out draws to access the space. Previously there was just one small door, and old vinyl over the whole the floor. I just lifted the vinyl up and found the floor seems to be a mix of bricks, cement and old tiles, laid...

Hi folks. I'm trying to spec some radiator upgrades to improve our heat pump efficiency. In summary, it was commissioned to run at a 55degC flow temp, and it basically works fine with all radiators we have at that temp, and bills seem to be similar as gas was last year. However, it would be more...

Current outhouse roof leaking in various places, so was thinking to rebuild using metal roofing. The existing felt is mortared in under the coping stones on 2 sides, and overhangs a brick wall on the other side. It has a slight angle, but not much. It's not in a hugely windy location. I'll be...

Hi folks, I'm planning to insulated the inside of this wall (in photo) with insulated plasterboard. The main thing I'm concerned about is how to deal with this 'feature' - the stone lintel protrudes out through the existing plaster into the room. For context, this room wall originally an...

Hi - I'm trying to fix my in-laws Beko oven - it had stopped working, so I checked the element in the lower oven, it had burnt out, so I replaced that - turn it on - and found that the digital control panel and the lower oven are still not working. There's a wee red light comes on, and the top...

Hi. We got a local painting company to paint the exterior of the house - window frames, gutters, gables, fascias, eves, soffits etc etc. We requested 'white gloss for all the woodwork, and grey for the gutters'. But they've painted everything grey except the window frames which they're painted...

Hi all. An extension section of our kitchen is mostly single skin solid sandstone/mortar with plaster(possibly paster board?) right against the mortar. I'd like to internally insulate the wall using something like the celotex insulated plasterboard. I'm wondering if it's ok to fix new studs...

Hi, above our window were two lights - they've never worked since I moved in - no current I want to remove the light fittings and plaster over. I'm just wondering the best way of ending this cable - ideally I'd remove all the plaster and trace the cable back to it's other end - but this could...

Hi folks - we're getting there with our heating system, but there's still 2 radiators blocked upstairs. The top 30-40% heat up, but the rest must be full of sludge. We got others working by taking off and hosing down outside - but they were smaller, downstairs, nearer doors and above tiled...

Our central heating system has a few problems: one of which is a downstairs radiator that's been completely cold since we moved in. We took it off, cleaned it (a bit dirty), and put it back. We refilled it by opening the tap on the left. Ran heating system - heat. We then opened the bleed...

Hi folks, Next task on the old house is loft insulation. In one section of the house there is a gap between the slates, rafters and rooms (plaster and lath) we can access from the loft (green section in attached). You can see right down into them from the loft (See photo) and so we're hoping we...

Hi, I'm trying to fix a few problems with my in-laws 18th century Scottish farmhouse. There's a lot of 'projects' here but one is electrics: They've always had bills of over £200/month. A lot of this will be as they use convector heaters as the oil boiler + central heating broke years ago...

Hi folks, I'm helping friend with their old (1900?) house, and one of the problems is the gutters appear to be blocked. One was plastic, which we lifted out, and out came a downpipes-worth of leaves, moss and water. We cleared out the drain, and water seems to flow ok into the drain. All the...

Hello. The house I moved into has a 'disability' style wet room - eg, functional and ugly! A lot like this photo: http://www.apollodesign.uk.com/Tiles/Lil4.jpg. Looking for ideas on how to improve it. I could get the bathroom gutted and refitted nicely with a bath (expensive), or I could just...