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I have a 1930s house with some damp rising along 2 of the walls, nothing major apart from some flaky paint on 1 of the walls. It's 9" brick solid wall with a very small cavity of around 20mm. I have got some of the Dryrod kits off Amazon, there is an existing damp membrane that I can see along...

I knew the 1 pot was leaning, but now have scaffold up and have been able to take a better look. I need to redo the flauncing and reset the pots, I did the other chimneys flaunching in 2/1/1 of sharp sand, builders sand and cement. The top 3 exposed courses are going to likely need rebuilding...

I am trying to decide on what hearth to use for a new stove, the stove is suitable for a 12mm hearth so shouldn't get too hot. I have heard of a lot of people with stoves where the hearth as cracked. I was looking at something like this 2 piece slate hearth...

I know if you have a stove inside the recess then it needs to be 125mm of non-combustible material, what about the hearth outside the recess, does that also need to be 125mm if the stove sits in the recess or can that be less? I have widened my opening and the actual recess was built up to about...

I have just removed a inset gas fire and the chimney sweep is coming next week. I want to install a stove and the existing opening is d17cm w44cm h70cm which seems quite small. There appears to be a gather in front with a metal lid on top, I though it had a small back boiler or something but it...

Our existing loft hatch is above the stairs and high landing, I have to get the big ladders everytime I need to go into the loft. Quite dangerous, so I am looking to add a new bigger loft in the master bedroom. The joists are spaced approx 500mm apart, the new loft hatch will be 700 x 1100. The...

Our boiler is currently located in a small bedroom, we are looking to relocate it into the loft to make the bedroom a little bigger, we I know the loft needs to be boarded, guard rail and lights, is there anything about the loft hatch being above a steep flight of stairs? I would need to have...

I have a Baxi Solo HE 15 regular boiler, system is open vented with a F&E in the loft for the rads. Upstairs only had rads in the bathroom and back bedroom so i have installed rads in the 2 front bedrooms and moved the back bedroom rad, i have used Speedfit and plastic pipe. Filled system...

I am currently doing some work on a house i have bought and have builders in doing upstairs, just discovered plaster on living room walls apart from chimney breast is blown in various places and very crumbly. I have taken 2 walls back to brick already and intend to plasterboard the living room...

Had a service yesterday and my inset gas fire was condemned, i'm thinking rather than replace it i would like to switch to coal. Wouldn't use it a lot since mainly use rads but will be nice now and then. The opening is there and gas engineer did a smoke test and checked the flue visually and...

Just moved into a house, it was underpinned in 1998 due to what was likely to have been historic settlement which was mainly along the party wall, particually towards the rear. I had a engineers report done and it came back ok, apart from a few things which need repairing. The floors...

I have a window with a crack about 10+ inches running down under the sill to the right of the window, with nearly an inch gap in places where all the mortar has come away i think, one or two of the bricks might also be cracked, it looks like it goes through since there is a crack on the render...