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Is there a statutory period that a planning application needs to be displayed adjacent to the planned developement site or does it vary from council to council.

What kind of draught excluder is this. It seems to have a "V" shape profile which allows the side of the door to compress it when shut. Was installed with the wooden door about 11 years ago. I've searched online , but cannot find anything resembling it.

I've installed a waterproof canopy over my back door. I would quite like to add some half size guttering to it. The easiest thing to do would be to run the pipe straight into the existing waste pipe on the wall. However, my understanding is that you cannot divert rain water straight into the...

2017-11-15 14.36.00 by roofmog posted 15 Nov 2017 at 3:33 PM Lifted some old vinyl flooring to replace with new, and discovered this. Although there is a lot of mould, there is no actual sign of water. It appears to follow the line of where a new concrete slab was joined to the original many...

I'm planning to paper one of external walls in the living room of my cottage. It has only ever been painted before. It doesn't seen to suffer from damp as it has had a chemical damp proof course injected in the past, but it is quite hard to tell as it can get very cold to touch in winter and it...

Papering a new wall. Should I fit the skirting first and cut the paper to it, or do the papering and fit the skirting on top.

I'm overpaying with Dulux quick dry satinwood. It suggests applying two coats. Should I lightly sand between coats, as the instructions do not suggest this, and I have not worked with satinwood before?

I'm considering installing some DryRod damp proofing rods in the external wall of the living room in my Victorian end of terrace. However, the installation instuctions require 12mm wide and 180mm deep holes to be drilled every 12cm into the mortar. I'm a bit concerned that this would start to...

I have a 13 amp double socket that I would like to move about 2m along the wall. Is this something I am allowed to do myself or do the regulations require a qualified electrician?

I have recently fitted some soundproofing and Plaster board into the alcove either side of my chimney breast. Because it is an old property and the breast and walls were not particularly flat to start with I have ended up with a variable gap where the plaster board meets the flanking wall. In...

I've just started my first foray into plaster boarding. I'm adding some soundproofing in an alcove next to my fireplace. However, the Knauf Soundboard that I am working with does not seen the break particularly cleanly. I'm scoring with a straight edge, and then snapping the board as I have seen...

I'm starting to do some renovation work in the living room of my 1820's cottage. The construction is basically a concrete floor slab and double thickness brick walls with no air gap in between. However, I have noticed that in some areas the concrete slab goes all the way to the brickwork, but in...

Preparing to render a small amount of exposed internal brickwork. I've got the sharp sand, cement and Sika Mix Plus Plasticiser . However the cement I've got is Blue Circle Mastercrete. This contains a small amount of lime, and the data sheet suggests that the use of the plasticiser is not...

I had my annual service done on my Worcester combination boiler just before Christmas. There were no problems discovered. However, when I got in this evening the boiler seemed to be making a slightly different noise than usual, so I decided to investigate. When I opened the cupboard that it is...

I'm going to box out my fire place with plasterboard to cover the exposed brick work. In the centre there is a very large channel where bricks appear to have been removed to help the original fire draw better. Given that this channel is going to be behind the plasterboard, is there any reason...

I'm repainting some wooden window frames using Dulux Liquid Gloss. Should I lightly sand between the first and second coats. I know that people often do when using gloss paint, however the instructions on the tin make no mention of this.

Not sure if this is the correct forum or if it should be in the" floor" section. I have been investigating the cause of a small damp patch that has appeared on the junction of one of my outside walls and the neighbour's party wall. The plaster had started to look a bit damp in the bottom...

After a recent ant infestation around my windows I decided it might be good idea to remove the window frame and see if there was any damage to the brickwork. It does look as if the ants had been tucking in to the fabric of the building. Having treated the infestation I am planning to repair the...

One of the walls in my living room only has 1 x 13amp double socket outlet in the corner. I would like to add some additional sockets further along the wall. Is this just a case of spurring off the existing socket or will I have to have new cabling run back to the consumer unit?

Hope I've put this in the correct section. I'm renovating the open fireplace in my cottage, intending to plaster over the existing brickwork. As I have started to remove the decades, if not centuries, of soot, it has become obvious that a certain amount of re pointing is going to be required as...