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Hi, I've just laid new pine tongue and groove floorboards on the first floor of our house. The joists below were replaced a couple of years ago and chip board was put on top of them. I'm replacing the chipboard with the floorboards as its a period property and they'll be finished and exposed...

Hi, I have a house which was built in around 1820 and then converted to dwelling in around 1920. In the main living room, there is a suspended floor and the front of the house goes out on to the street. Today, i had to take some of the boards up to run some leads, but noticed the sub floor is...

Hi, I'm renovating our loft room which was last decorated by the previous owner in the 80s. The whole room is plasterboard with painted woodchip wallpaper straight onto the plasterboard. Is there any way off getting it off? The room is 6m x 3m - i'm considering that i may have to remove all...

Hi, We have house built with thick stone walls - about 80cm. In the kitchen, there is an archway covered by plasterboard which was the original exterior wall to the house about 100 years ago. We'd like to uncover it as a feature an also to let ore light though. I've removed the plasterboard...

Hi, The house we have is circa 200 years old and has thick walls made of stone and rubble. Over the years various owners of the house have rendered and re-rendered, but we`re suffering from quite a bit of damp and plaster blowing off etc. On the top layer, it is mostly gypsum plaster which i...

Hi, I recently built a new roof for my garage to replace the very old one, but have started to notice mould now the weather has turned,etc. I`m not sure there is actually anything i can do about this or why its happening, but would appreciate any advice on it. The roof is made up of timber...

Hi, My house is about 200 years old and the kitchen floor joists are supported in a solid stone wall. I`m replacing the kitchen, but unfortunately the previous owner had leaks from both the dishwasher and washing machine on the back wall which she never bothered to sort :-( Now i`ve fixed the...

Hi, We bought a house recently which suffers from bad condensation. This is causing mould to appear , etc. We had a specialist look at the house who said that basically it needs to breathe and this will solve most of the problems. He has recommended a PPU unit and some humidity fans in the...

Hi, I'm installing a new roof on my garage workshop. Its currently got a very old asbestos roof and the timber joists holding it up are mostly rotted, wood wormed, broken ,etc ! The garage is about 10m x 5m with a partion wall across 1/3 of it. All walls are made from single breezeblock and...

Hi, I`m laying solid wood flooring right through our lounge and running through into the kitchen. Its on top of wooden floorboards and i`ve used a floating installation on self adheisive backing. I prepped the floor nailing all loose boards down.I`ve done the lounge and its all looking...

Hi, I`m going to be laying solid oak tongue and groove flooring in our living room and through to the kitchen. 90% is currently timber floorboards and we have a bit of concrete around the chimney breast and some edging area. I`m unsure of which underlay to use (or even if i have to use...

Hi, I`m after some advice for our leaky chimney. When it rains heavily for prolonged periods (like the last few weeks!!), we appear to get water seeping through the mortar in the loft space and then running down the outside of the chimney breast and drippng down. The house is an end of...

Hi, We have decided to remove the fireplace in our lounge to fit a wood burner - I`ve managed to remove the fireplace and removed the rubble/plaster in the fireplace itself. What we wanted to do was expose some of the brickwork around the fireplace once the plaster was removed. Its not in...

hi, I`ve just bought a house which has a saniflow toilet - its the only toilet in the house and is positioned in the centre of the house. Is this right? The real reason i`ve coem on here is that we`ve just started having problems with it yesterday. We haven`t been chucking stuff down it...