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Hi Had my hallway decorated by decorators and they finished on Thursday. Everything was sanded right down to almost original undercoat and the handrail and spindles all had a coat of undercoat (as they had been painted with a really dark cherry paint before) and then a coat of Crown Quick...

Got an odd one here. My boiler overflow pipe started leaking we estimate sometime around six weeks ago (we noticed it dripping three weeks ago with a bit of green limescale on it, now it's got more limescale). It only leaks when the hot water comes on for 40 mins in the morning and in the...

After 13 months in place and nobody touching it, it's decided to leak. From either the flow or return joint, I can't tell which. It's coming through the ceiling now. It appears to slow once the heating is up to temp, I assume because the joint expands slightly when hot, but overnight it's...

I had a Mira engineer round today to service the shower. The shower was installed by the previous owners. When he turned off the electricity supply to the shower and removed the shower casing and tested the L to E and E to N, he found that the Earth cable was showing a 10.8v reading. Oddly...

Just had a chimney removed and before it was removed it was leaking on the living room ceiling (upstairs chimney breast removed, downstairs had been removed previously). The builder got up on the roof but couldn't see any obvious reason for the leaks. Flaunching and flashing were all fine. He...

We've just had a chimney breast removed up to the loft and to support the remaining chimney breast a steel beam was installed. The Building Regs person came round as the builders were finishing up and I had some of the conversation from downstairs: "So are you coming back or is this...

We purchased a house late last year and the chimney breast in the lounge has been removed. We knew this when buying the house (they gave us 'building regs insurance') and we couldn't get them to discount the price further, so we decided to get it done when we moved in. We've come to the...

We've moved into a house recently and the heating bills are crippling us. Last week we had some work done by a plumber as some of the rads weren't getting very hot and the heating was costing us a fortune to run. Our first bill was £170 for the month (Nov 18 - Dec 19) and then £110 (for Dec...

As I posted in the buildings section of the forum yesterday //www.diynot.com/forums/building/chimney-breast-removed-is-this-sufficient-to-hold-it.290279/ we are purchasing a house that has had one of the downstairs chimney breasts removed but without any known building regs. and with the...

Hi all First time on here and I'm hoping you can help. We're in the process of purchasing a 1930's semi which had four fireplaces, 2 up and 2 down, the same as the adjoining neighbours. In the living room one Chimney breast is still present (the 'feature' chimney breast) but the corner...