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See the picture attached. The top of the wall has three stepped layers of brick making a sort of shelf for the gutter to sit on. What's that called? Does it have a name? The house is around 1900 build. 40 years ago there was a wooden gutter with a flat bottom sitting directly on the shelf. (As...

I've a large plastic header tank in the attic which was put in when I had a shower installed about 20 years ago. It was made by Tanks & Drums in Bradford (no longer trading). It's well lagged and has a lid and hasn't needed anything doing to it except for a new valve or washer once or twice...

Last year I made a window box for an upstairs window. It's made of decking planks and is a simple box shape. It sits on a stone window sill between stone mullions(?) on either side. It works well and tending the plants is easy from the inside as it's a sash window. This year I plan to...

Hi I'm having a new boiler installed on my old 1-pipe system. Plumber recommends converting to 2-pipe system. Ok but some of the pipes are under a tiled floor I don't want pulled up. So plumber says we'll just convert the rest to two-pipe and leave those on single pipe. I understand the...

My mum's house has a staircase which was installed several years ago. It looks like the type of thing you see for sale in DIY shops. It seems very flimsy to me and most of the parts are loose. The spindles rattle about in their moorings and the bannister components are loose. Is this how these...