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Hello, We shifted our sons bedroom around the other day and were shocked to find black mould / stains on one wall behind the bed. It's an (almost) external wall that is cold. The bedroom is above the garage and 1/3 of the bedroom ceiling slopes down as it's the underside of the garage...

Hi, my friend has had some really bad luck regarding burst pipes. They've saturated the walls and the plaster has blown. He also had a rising damp issue in the same areas funnily enough. A plasterer really messed up the year before and the rising damp was in the process of returning. So that...

Hi My friend is building his extension using an insulated 4x2 framework with a shallow pitched tiled roof above. There are only going to be 2 openings - 1 for a pair of French doors and the other for a window. Above these he is going to use doubled up 8x2s on their sides for the lintels...

Hi can someone help please? i'm a jobbing carpenter and have been asked to insulate a loft. To be honest, I've not actually done this before although im led to believe its simple!?!? ive been up there and the loft is bare. Plain 4x2 joists with the top of the plaster and lath ceiling...

Hello, My friend has a problem with damp of some kind. He bought the bungalow with an extension already built. He has a shower room / wet room in the centre of the house and ever since day one, there has been a small amount of dampness coming through the wall. The other side of this...

Hi guys, can anybody advise please..... I'm erecting a small simple roof canopy using timber gallows style brackets. It's going to be tiled and is only approx 20inches x 36inches (against the existing wall). I'm fixing it to a timber framed wall cladded with timber shiplap. But I'm...

Hi, I am currently designing my own timber framed housed and will be using 6x2 for the wall framing. The design will be all timber, fully insulated with either a timber or vinyl cladding system on the outside. I am thinking of using RSJ's as I need to span 10m overall (the width of the...

Hi, I am wandering the best way to do this. I have been asked to put up a clear roof over an alleyway between 2 houses. its approx 1600mm wide X 8.5 metres long. My initial thoughts are to use clear corrugated sheets on a timber frame sloping from front to back along the whole...

Hey Guys, Can somebody help please? I am going to help build a swimming pool enclosure for a friend of mine but I need clarification on building regulations. The floor area is going to be well over 30m2 (84m2 approx) so does this mean that full building regulations will have to be...