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Excuse my ignorance... When we moved into our current house I noted that I could see the joists in the bathroom ceiling, the ceiling was very mouldy, no bathroom fan. I assume it's been like this for a very long time. Have since killed the mould, fitted a strong fan, painted the ceiling with...

I have made attempts to fill the holes going up into my loft to prevent moisture from flowing up into the loft space. Have sorted most of the holes and sealed loft hatch added vents etc. What's the best way to seal around the holes created by wires going down into pendant light for example...

Am seeing some condensation issues on the plywood of the GRP valleys in my loft. Can anyone suggest soffit vent options to beef up the soffit vents in this area? I know you can get round ones but would like to fit something with more airflow that I can fit as indicated...

I want to lower the uppermost pipe in the attached images so I may more easily box it in. The soil pipe is internal am assuming it's a matter of a direct connection to the soil pipe somehow although am guessing it's cramped or why else would this pipe be so high?

Have a large bathroom window just above the bath / shower. As we have to upgrade I wonder what I should be looking at... Privacy - Would be nice to remove the blind but obviously we need privacy, any idea what we could do apart from wearing a swimming costume that is? Cold - It's often quite...

My bathroom is 9.936 m^3. We are seeing issues in the loft with condensation, my understanding is I need better fan that extracts as follows: 99.36 m^3/hr. 28 Lt/sec However given the loft condensation issues I am seeing above the bathroom, would you recommend an uplift?

I need to temporarily remove my satellite dish from the house wall, how can I easily/cheaply protect the coaxial cable from rain? My understanding is that the rain will mess up if it gets in.

Do I need / should I hire an M Class dust extractor as a DIYer working on raking out a large wall? Generally I was thinking of buying a low powered vac like: Mac Allister MWDV-16 L-A Corded Wet & dry vacuum, 16.00L just to prevent neighbours getting upset. And also a FFP3 face mask for myself.

Need to do a bit of repointing work, have completed some on my garage back wall (as a test) and while am happy with the finish ran into some issues with racking out. Tried using a mortar rake with my chepo Mac Allister 750W 240V 115mm Corded Angle grinder. Got through the loose stuff OK but I...

Hello, My downstairs bathroom has very rough walls. Some areas are very smooth, others very rough indeed. Obviously, I can fill / sand some areas but this will only take me so far. Am not a plasterer so that's out and the bathroom is tight and will be tough to put up lining paper, also am...

When I have replaced underground drainage previously have always added pea grave to the crown of the pipe. Obviously, this is expensive, is it OK to backfill with soil as long as it's not full of sharp stones. In other words, when do you use pea grave for underground drainage and when do you not?

Does anyone know how to remove these kitchen cupboard drawers, I cannot seem to find the latch to get them off, runners? Am probably being dense but don't want to mess something else up.

Many driveway installers, won't build a raised driveway for me so I was wondering, (as it's hard to get decent builders right now) is it possible to get the drop kerb done first then get it approved? OR does the raised driveway itself need to be installed at the same time as the drop kerb so...

Need to replace inspection chamber (the old style in poor repair lid broken). Also, need to run a new line of underground drainage into the same inspection chamber. When should I get the inspection done, before I do anything, at the commencement or on completion of work?

I notice that most windows like this have gaps above them, the perps are left clear (am assuming) to allow moisture to exit. Should I drill out 2 perps? Or maybe this is risky (I have no idea what's behind it) If so which ones should I look to drill out (perhaps it doesn't matter I don't know)?

Still struggling to find a builder who I trust to repoint my house abutment. Am considering completing the work myself wonder what I could rent (self-assembly) that will work, there is a garage roof to overcome. It's a couple of meters away from the corner of the house at the back. I can't...

I have a 1970's house brought about 6 years ago. Just had the radiator replaced and noticed damp on all the joist ends along the entire length of our dining room. It's on the external wall, at ground floor. Outside the DPC is about 5 bricks above path level. Any idea of what's causing...

Our bathroom is setup so the bath is under a very large window. We have an electric shower set up so you can stand in the bath and have a shower that gets pretty cold and I wonder if there's something that could be done. My thoughts are along the lines of: Reducing the size of the window so...

Am considering moving the guttering downpipe out the back of our property as indicated by the red line in the attached image. It will be neater than shown ;-) I know I will have to contact building control RE adding in new gully and connecting in to the existing chamber which is surface...

We live in a cul de sac I have 2 options for a new driveway with a drop kerb my preferred option is just by if not on a road junction. Junction simply feeds another cul de sac so they are both minor roads. Even so, am assuming this is a no go and that a drop kerb this close to a junction...