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About 36 hours after grouting a shower with a light grey grout, I ran some clear silicon down the vertical corners. The grout under the silicon now looks almost black (and has stayed like that for 3-4days now). So will the grout dry out back to light grey again at some point?

Hi all, We have had this porch built and now want to lay a tiled floor. Is it ok to apply tile adhesive straight onto the DPC visible near the door? If not what goes on first? We’ll be putting down an uncoupling Matt too as the floor tiles will cover the screed floor and currently...

We’ve built a porch. Owing to the slope of our front garden we have 4 steps taking you up the 2.5m approach to the front door. Before the porch we had a sloped path to the old front door. The steps have 150mm rise each, except for the first one, as you step off the existing path, which has a...

Our builder used fullfill wool insulation in our 100mm cavity (a simple 1m x 2m porch). Building control have told us “this construction doesn't comply with Approved Document L. This construction achieves 0.35W/m2K when it needs to meet 0.18W/m2K. Please provide details of how this porch will...

Hi Is there a building regs threshold for new roof square meterage that determines whether or not a soakaway must be installed? We’re building a small porch. 2.3 sqm footprint. Water run off is not a lot for such a small roof. The house is 2.2m above the lane (and 9m from it), with a sloped...

I'm having a porch built (brick, enclosed, tiled roof type) which faces West on and end terrace house, in a village in Hampshire. The builder suggests we go with a composite door, due to hardwood doors sticking and warping when they face the elements and sun. How big a problem is this? Are these...

Ive submitted a planning application for a enclosed brick porch 1.2m x 1.9m with tiled roof - required due to being on a boundary line with next door. Otherwise its basically within the proportions for a permitted dev. We're in the Southdowns National park but not in the conservation area or...

Hi Wondering what to use for this gap. Needs to be level and smooth but not fussed re appearance as under a rug. The photo shows a gap between floorboard trim and old concrete hearth edge. The floorboard trim is tatty and slopes down - so we need to cover the wood trim and make level with the...

Hi. On our windows, (upvc double glazed), the middle non-opening pane doesn’t have a small top opening window above it. Quite unusual. Can we replace just the middle pane with one that does have a small top opener for venting? Or must we replace the whole window?

Hi, I had a go at laying porcelain paving slab, big 900x600. After a few slabs I realised my mucky prints from manhandling them into place and to level, were not coming off. We had a go with water and brush, then bicarbonate of soda with a scrub. They still look like the photo shows. Being...

Hi - just moved into a house and the shower screen is proving a bit crap... the reason for the post is because this metal right angle that holds the smaller glass to the main glass panel isn't held well. if you look to the bottom, at the (brighter blue) smaller glass, the issue is that it sinks...