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Hi all, I got some great advice here on how to insulate our bay window here, so I thought I would share a step by step guide on how I approached the project. May it help someone in the future! It's made a massive difference.

We've removed lining paper in our Victorian terrace to uncover lime plaster as shown in the photo. It's largely intact, but covered in tiny cracks and with numerous areas that feel hollow to the tap (though are clearly sounds enough that they didn't come off with the lining paper). One patch...

I'm in the process of insulating my bay window. I've been taking the plaster off back to brick and want to remove the plastic window board and replace with wood. Can anyone advise how these are attached to the main window frame? I want to be sure it's actually removable before I damage it...

I'm removing some plaster on our rear external wall and want to know what type of Plaster it is. It seems to have a thin rigid white surface then powdery grey texture behind. Mainly keen to know it's not hazardous! Thanks :)

We’ve just pulled off the lining paper under the bay window (1st floor) in our bedroom to discover a huge amount of black mould. The wall under the bay is plastered over brick. I’ve chipped some of this away where the mould was particularly bad and it’s nice and dry behind, so I’m confident this...

Hi all, I'm looking to install an outside tap on our small outbuilding. I've done a bit of DIY plumbing but am no expert! There's already a washing machine out there, so there's a copper pipe coming from the kitchen terminating in an isolator that the washing machine hose screws into. I want...

We've just bought a victorian terrace. The previous owner left a water butt but, rather than using a diverter, they re-routed the downpipe from the gutter straight into the water butt. The section of downpipe below is there and uncapped, and the water butt overflow points down into it (see image...