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It was the builder who told me it should be sprayed... The stone seems quite porous and there is a bit of damp coming in on the corner of the gable end beside and above the front door lintel about 1 metre square. The rest of the gable end seems OK, no damp coming through. Maybe the builder...

Has anyone had any experience of doing this, and could give me any tips please? A year ago I paid a local builder to repoint the gable end (which he did) and to spray it with silicone (which he hasn't, and it seems that he doesn't intend to finish the job). As I can't afford to pay anyone else...

My garage is about a mile away from my house so I can't keep an eye on it. It's been broken into once already, through the roof (the fellah put transparent corrugated roofing on part of the roof so he could see to work on the car and someone spotted his tools, broke in and stole them). Although...

Thanks tonybhoy. My partner (bloke) wants an all-singing all-dancing one but since I'm paying we'll maybe get one with a radio. Luckily we live near Boundary Bathrooms in Colne so we're going along there today to interrogate some salespeople (borrowing the interrogation equipment off Max Mosley)...

Estate agent survey reckons a new bathroom adds about £5000 to a property's value: http://www.fool.co.uk/news/property-home/2007/10/12/which-home-improvements-add-the-most-value.aspx Very useful if you've got visitors and your bathroom as (ahem!) a tip...like mine.

We're getting a new upstairs bathroom next year and are thinking of buying a steam shower - at the moment we don't have a shower at all. I thought I'd get some basic advice before buying and getting it installed. Sorry, not v technical! 1. We don't have a cold water tank - all cold comes...