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I have an 1890s terraced. At some point in the past it's had a concrete rear yard and then flags have been laid on top, all right up the the house. To help with damp, I remove around 100mm of flagging around the house, this appears to have helped. Now I've since had my kitchen sink moved and I...

Looking to purchase some of these to replace the tiles in my shower, do you have to use the internal corner profiles? Or can you just butt the corner up and silicone it? Just to make it look more like tile?

I'm looking for the best option on insulating my bathroom, it's a Victorian terrace (1895), it has cavity walls (very narrow cavity). The 2 options I am looking at would be, - Insulated plasterboard straight onto the walls (worried about the break in the built in vapor barrier at each join)...

Hi, I am looking to convert a small section of my concrete garage into an office space. I know this isn't ideal but I need the rest of the garage and don't want to knock the whole thing down to start again with a timber structure. My thinking is to build a freestanding stud wall structure...

Hi, I am looking to put 3 pendant lights in my kitchen, these specifically - https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/solklint-pendant-lamp-brass-grey-clear-glass-10430778/ I currently have only 1 ceiling rose, so was hoping I could create something like this - Ideally it would be black, I know I...

Hi, I am looking for advice on laying out my wainscotting panneling. I’ve measured my staircase section on its own, divided it up like this, doing the hallway and landing in seperate sections to. Then when I add on my landing section (just the size to fit that wall with 100mm spacing as...

I’ve previously jet washed the coping stones (sandstone?) at the front of my house. Unfortunately they haven’t really cleaned as well as I’d of hoped. I used household bleach, scrubbed them and then jet washed them. The black marks just won’t budge. Any tips of anything else I could use / try?

I have moved my kitchen sink from the other side of my back door. My sink previously drained to a soil stack directly on the outside of the wall. Now I've moved it, there is noway to run a waste pipe without passing the door. Would I be ok to bury a 40mm waste pipe for 3m? Or do I have to...

Hi, I’m looking to remove the paint from my lintels and sills and return them back to bare sandstone. I’ve had quotes for sandblasting but it’s outside of my budget :( Is there a DIY way to do this?

Hi all, I have a 1895 built terrace. On the internal wall between the living room and dining room (highlighted yellow), I have damp, cold, almost wet feeling patch along the middle of the wall, around 4ft up, just above the dado rail - I have tried drying it out and no luck, the other...

I’ve recently moved in my house and changed 3 switches. They all control the same landing light, 2 switches on the landing and 1 in the hall. Since installing the new switches, I have to turn them on by the switch in the hall, and then I can turn the light on and off from the 2 landing...

Hi, I’m looking to paint the marble / marble effect parts of my fireplace / hearth. What would be the best type of paint / prep. Looking it paint it black. Thanks,

I have a typical Victorian terrace, lay out as below - I'm hoping to remove my kitchen door and brick it up, to gain space back in my kitchen for units. The problem I have is my car parking is at the rear and I access the house this way 90% of the time. I was hoping to fit french doors in the...

I have a 2 bed Victorian terrace, with the floor plan below I had an arched doorway going from the dining room into the kitchen. I started to remove this to square it back off, and found a wooden lintel that’s barely resting on anything I’m thinking of now opening this up further like...

I’ve had my old wooden framed front door replaced with a new composite one. From the outside it has a stone lintel. When the fitter removed the old wood frame, there was a soldier course above that fell down. He then fitted the new frame and door. He said the solider course was just an...

Hi all, I have an issue with damp in my kitchen. The wall is an external wall, and looks wet. It has an airbrick that’s been added later, which is just in the outer leaf. I’m thinking of removing this airbrick as I don’t believe I need to vent the cavity? And also I’m thinking of adding a...

Hi, I have an Accenta Gen4 with LCD keypad. Installed it myself about 5 years ago, been fine until the last 6 months, now it seems the clock is running slow, over a week the time drifts by about an hour and I have to keep setting it again. Anyone seen this before?

I had a few loose tiles in the shower so decided to remove them, I’ve now taken quite a lot off and all the plaster is damp and soggy. Should I remove, re-plaster, use a tanking kit and re tile? Or instead could I mount waterproof back board onto the brick work and tile straight onto it? Or...

Hi all, I've read a few similar threads to the problem I have but having tried other solutions I'm stuck. We have a 1 wall in a room that we painted when we moved into our house. All the paint went on OK and was fine for around a month, then 1 wall (the only external wall in that room) the...

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice. I want to install a ground anchor in my shed, its sat on a concrete base, but my shed floor is around 2 inches from the concrete base. I'm going to cut out a square in the floor, then I was going to box it off and fill with more concrete, then drill through...