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We bought a renovated house just over a year ago, and it seemed like they'd done a really good job, then... We have a room above our bedroom, and when there's someone in there, the floorboards are a bit squeaky, and footsteps are loud. So I decided to pull up the carpets, make sure the boards...

Hello. I finished building a single thickness brick wall a couple of weeks ago when it was dry. One side is exposed to the rain, the other is covered and dry, but rain seems to be getting through from the wet side to the dry side? Any idea what this could be and how I can stop it please?

Hello. Just a quickie... I'm replacing my wooden back door with a UPVC one, but the wooden frame is 12cm deep, whereas the new UPVC frame is only 6cm. The question is, would I be right in thinking that I should fit the frame flush with the outside wall and plaster the extra 6cm gap...

Hi all. I have a 3 foot run of plastic 22mm pipe which runs outside the house. I need to protect it from the frost, but the conventional DIY store insulation looks like it'll soak up the rain and freeze itself. Is it OK to use the standard stuff or is there something more suitable?

That's the crux of it, for the long story... Paid a builder to install a soil pipe for a new downstairs shower room and get all necessary permissions/certificates etc. Builder did all the work, but didn't supply building control documentation. I got onto him and he denied that he was...

Hello everyone. I've been through the Wiki and other posts and they've been some help, but I'm just a DIYer and I'm a bit stuck and we have no heating or HW. I have a Potterton Suprima 40L boiler and we've had trouble with it in the past but it's been fine recently. Now, when the...

Hi. I have a spare downstairs room that someone fitted a shower into at some point and now I want to convert it to a proper shower room with WC etc. It's a 2 storey house, but this room is part of a 1 storey extension. There is already a main bathroom with a vented soil pipe at the other end...