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Thanks, that is not a bad idea. Yes, kept the original tiles but most are broken and they weren't the nicest so will freecycle them

Hi, thanks in advance for any advice. I am replacing the front path to my house. I've removed the victorian tiles that were there and am left with the concrete slab base. The concrete slab is approximately 4 cm deep and seems to have been laid on just dirt (possibly sand) but no hardcore...

thanks for your response. It is as I thought, but just wanted a second opinion before I go back to my builder with my issues. Cheers

Hi, Just after some views of people with a better understanding of rendering than me. Picture 1 is the terrible job our builders did rendering the lip above our bedroom window. I believe they used a stop bead which meant water didn't drip but got drawn back towards the house (hence the black...

Our front path has seen better days (see the picture) and, having done a bit of internal tiling, I thought I'd take on the job myself. I have tried taking up a few tiles and while some came up easily, others only came up with a chunk of the underlying concrete. Surprisingly, I can't seem to...

It's not a gutter, it is a decorative cornicing type thing (not sure the correct term) that buts out and has got flashing over it so should be ok (as that is part of what the roofers were doing that meant we needed scaffolding in the first place).

The scaffolding was set up for some roofing work so as it was up, we got the house rerendered at the same time so imagine the scaffolders set it up for the roof work and the builder doing the render work just went around it! Annoyingly the window nearest the crazing is broken at the mo so I...

Hi, thanks for the responses. There doesn't look like anything sticking out so just think it is the beading not being flush. In respect of the crazing, how bad an issue is it? When dry I can't see any cracks so is it just something that happens with external rendering or will it need doing...

Hi, We got the front of our house rerendered this time last year and I have noticed a few issues with it so would really appreciate the opinion of some more experienced eyes before I go back to the builder. Firstly, as you can see from the first photo, the lip above the window seems to have...

Hi, I'm just about to undertake filling the gaps between our pine floorboards with slivers and so will end up having to sand the whole floor. I am pretty confident in what I need to do, the only thing I am worried about is that most of the nail holes have black marks surrounding them. I...

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Thanks for that, will take some pictures tonight and post them up (not sure why I didn't think to do that in the first place!)

It is probably around 100 years old and is just a two up, two down (Gerorgian maybe) terraced house and due to the age I can't imagine it has a cavity wall.

Hi, We had our bedroom replastered as the plasterwork was terrible. The room had this weird plasticky paint on it and once that was removed and the plaster redone, the (internal) plasterwork on the external wall has damp patches and has refused to dry. Our builder has said it is due to an...

Hi, We are just about to move house and I managed to knock a bottle of aftershave onto the cistern lid smashing a corner off (at that point my missus helpfully mentioned how she always thought that might happen!). Getting a replacement lid seems to be expensive and difficult so my question...

Cheers for the reply but that sounds like a lot more work than I am able to put in. This is my first home with the missus so we don't intend to still be here in 5 years so was just aiming to improve and and tidy them up rather than completely restore.