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Three years ago I had some new UPVC double-glazed windows installed. Any help identifying cause/problems much appreciated. No 1: A tilt and turn window, with a small side opening window, both part of the same unit. Since installation the tilt and turn section sometimes emits loud cracking...

I very much appreciate previous advice, so I'd like to ask opinions on this. I have just discovered when removing the bath panel the mess the outside wall has been left in behind the bath. I know that walls are often left "rough" behind kitchen cabinets, etc. but is this acceptable (see pix)...

So the problem of the brown and yellow stains coming through masonry paint was solved when the exterior painting was done again by the same painter, ie he was given a chance to put it right - in April. He just painted over the first attempt. I believe water-based paint was used first time...

So there's this really nice bloke making a wonderful job of solving the problem of the botched wooden floor. He lays discarded boards on honey coloured paving in the garden. It rains overnight. Hey presto! dark brown spill stains appear on the paving right outside the folding doors. You can't...

My new neighbours' son has managed to kick footballs - yes, more than one - into my garden too often for comfort. My fencing is 2m high, but the football's trajectory is up to 4m and has caused some damage to my fruit trees. Yesterday's tally was 8 apples and a bird feeder dashed to the ground...

Help, help. My plan was to have a rich dark blue gloss coat for the front door. From a distance it looks great BUT close-up the original white coat is grinning through. The undercoat was dark grey but I don't know whether the original white gloss was sanded. The door has now had three coats...

Morning All, A new combi boiler has been installed on the ground floor. The vent is on a south wall at the side of the house well above head height. Trouble is that the prevailing wind is a south-westerly, the vent produces clouds of vapour and whenever I am at the side of the house I get a...

I'm planning to have a wardrobe run of 5 sliding doors each 726 mm wide. The total length of the wall is 3800mm. Are there any tracks long enough to take all the doors, or will they have to be split so that 3 doors slide on one track and 2 doors on another track? Thanks in anticipation.

Since forever a dry fine golden dust has to be swept off the hearth every day. My parents had a new fireplace installed in the 1960s (!). It was never used for coal fires, they just put an electric fire in the gap. As I say, the dust is dry, like very fine grain sand really. It's the same...

It squeaks, it doesn't look level and the builder doesn't want to know. It's a new solid oak T&G floor. Here goes: The back room has been extended. New joists were laid in the old room and in the new extension. On top of the joists hardboard was laid and the new floorboards fixed to the...