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So I have a wee a conundrum on a bit of patio I'm hoping to finish tomorrow. I've laid an area of patio using 600*600 ~20-25mm riven slate slabs on a ~50-70mm full wet mortar bed above 75-100mm compacted type 1. Most of it has been done and is now well set. I just have to lay the last section...

A few years ago we got a small flat roof recovered. The company just seem to have cut a chase into the wall it adjoins and laid felt about 6" up it over the existing roughcast and into the chase to serve as flashing, then mortared around the edges to seal it. There's no proper lead flashing. We...

On our small kitchen extension there are two vents. It is a cavity brick wall and there is nothing either vent goes to on the inside. The bottom one (above internal floor level) had already been filled before we moved in and now we're getting it all rendered the guy asked if we wanted the top...

This is something that I've kind of posted in the doors forum but it's probably more of a minor building type question now I've got stuck into it. Long story short, the slab for our kitchen floor has been thickened at some point for reasons I don't fully understand. This left a tall step right...

Hi all, in preparation for getting our house rendered I'm hoping to sort out the mess that is our back door. If you are a door fitter and you turned up here what would you do? It is one of the last things we need to do but I've been putting it off because I'm not sure how best to approach it...

Hi all, hoping I can gain from your wealth of experience. We're getting the whole house rendered at some point reasonably soon and I'd like to sort out the mish-mash of pipework on the back wall while we're at it. Access to underfloor space is possible but its a bugger to get into so would...

So we've just had a borehole drilled and are running a new water line 20m from it to the house. I've arranged for a local guy with a machine to dig the trench 750mm deep and have the sand to line it etc. The pipe will need to be joined under the ground at one end where the supply comes out under...

Our rear doorsteps had a brick surround which extended up to form a wall. As we are going to build some decking which will start off from the back of the steps, the upper wall part had to come down. Unfortunately, as I was taking the top section down I found that the bottom section which...

Hi folks, I'm posting a few questions in different sections about a house we are thinking of buying. One of the issues is that it has sash Windows and an unusual oriel window. I was hoping someone could possibly give me an indication of how much it would cost to refurbish both the oriel and the...

Hi folks I'm posting a few questions in the relevant sections with regard to a house we would like to buy. It's a good bit over 100 years old and of sandstone construction I believe. Survey said 700mm thick walls. There appear to be some cracks which have been patched up don some point and the...

Hi folks, I've leant on the knowledge of this forum before so I hope you can help. We're looking at a house we want to buy in Stirlingshire and the survey indicated the roof has leaks, specifically round the chimneys and that the timber shows damp staining. There also appears to be some...

Hi all, I hope I can gain your collective insight on this... We are looking at a property which is part of an old manor house now split into eight separate dwellings. When it was converted in 1986 a large extension with a flat roof was added to the rear. Part of this covers the ground floor of...

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help to identify this. It has appeared as a line on our kitchen wall which was plastered just over a year ago and then painted in standard white kitchen paint. There was nothing coming up until a few weeks ago. I scraped it all off, presuming it was a splatter...

Hi all, I was hoping to get some opinions on the storage unit I'm building (plans below). It is needed to house my freezer and washing machine in the bottom part of the two tall cabinets. I plan on putting a wardrobe rail and maybe even some drawers in the spaces above. The top section...

Hi all, just after some advice, I am about to do our kitchen but the back wall is a stud wall that was put up to create the current small internal kitchen layout. As it will be the return for an L shaped unit layout life would be a lot easier if it was square and flat. However it is not. It...

Maybe a daft question to the afficionados among you... but I've stripped my bathroom walls back to the brick now and am wondering about the best way to get them plastered? The big issue is depth (as i think i mentioned in my last plastering post). I would happily just strap and sheet but on one...

Hi all, I have ordered a Grohe Talentofill system for my new bath. This is a system which has an intergrated bath filler and pop-up waste so I just need to get some deck mounted valves to control the flow of water into the filler itself. I need some advice though. The water intlet for the filler...

Basically as a follow on from my question about skimming tongue & groove ceilings... the whole bathroom was clad in tongue and groove. I have begun to strip it all away as part of a total bathroom refurb. Under the newer T&G were a few things. From the floor to about 150cm up the wall was...

Hi all, I have the opportunity to buy either of these for about the same price but was just wondering if there is any good reason to choose one over the other? In either case I will be going for the 82cm model. Is the access for servicing or relaibility any better on one or the other? Many...

I need to fit a shower to a wall which currently has a gas pipe running down it so the wall will probably be boxed out for pipe work, it is a straight run of pipe with no joints but I a little confused about the regs regarding boxing it in. I have been told that in some cases the pipe must be...