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Hi, I have laid an LVT floor. It’s a floating floor, with click tiles (planks, really). The room is 6 metres long. For about 3 metres, next to fitted shelving units, the expansion gap has ended up being really narrow, not even 1mm - though on the opposite side of the room, about 3.5 meters...

Hi, I have a vaulted ceiling. The vaulted part is about 1.5 metres long, contains Celotex insulation with a gap between the insulation and the felt, and leads into a normal loft. The felt is breathable, and I’m hoping that this is enough, but maybe not. The roof has no fascia or soffit as the...

I recently noticed a cluster of yellowish stains on my downstairs living room ceiling, starting about 30cm in from the exterior wall. They all flow out from the joist. Photos attached. I can’t figure out what’s caused them. I am not sure how long they’ve been there (could be a while), they...

Hi, Attached is a photo of my outside tap (it’s usually connected to a fence but I’m changing a rotten panel). There is a small weep coming from the edge of the black plastic adaptor (if it is an adaptor) that connects the tap to the wall mount. That bit of plastic is a bit knackered- I tried...

Hi, I’d be grateful for some advice about my shower tray. I was showering a couple of days ago when there was a quite a loud sort of cracking noise, and I felt something shift under my feet, though nothing really changed. The shower tray now creaks slightly when I shift my weight on it. I’ve...

Hi, After a plumbing disaster with a water pipe buried under my tiled kitchen floor, I have been left with a trench about 1.1 meters long, 4cm deep and 12cm wide. As far as I can see, the floor is just a concrete slab. Photo attached. I need to fill it in before the tiler comes to do final...

Hi, I have had a significant mains water leak under my kitchen floor (I have posted other Qs on the tiling and plastering forums - apologies if that was the wrong thing to do). It is tiled with porcelain tiles, on a concrete surface. I have no idea how much water would have leaked out before we...

Hi, I have had a significant mains water leak under my kitchen floor. It was tiled about 4 years ago, with porcelain tiles placed onto a concrete surface. The water pipe runs through the concrete.We noticed the leak when water started seeping out from a tiny space between the door frame and...

Hi, I have had a water leak under my tiled concrete kitchen floor but (I think) above the DPC- a mains water copper pipe with a pinhole in it had been leaking, we don’t know how long for. We noticed the leak when water began seeping out of the gap between door frame and floor in the room next...

Sorry- yet another smart thermostat wiring question. I want to install a Drayton Wiser two channel system. I currently have a Honeywell wireless thermostat (connects to a R6660D) controlling my central heating. I have a Honeywell wired timer (ST9100c) controlling my hot water cylinder. I have...

I have a steel oil tank for my central heating oil, installed quite recently. I would like to touch up the paint in a few places, especially around the edges of the tank. It’s the usual shade of green. I hear bad things about hammerite. Can anyone recommend a decent suitable paint that isnt too...

Hi, I need a replacement flush seal for an embrass peerless dual flush valve. The seal is approx 63mm outside diameter (which seems standard) but with a bigger than normal inside diameter of 40mm. 2mm thick all across the surface. But I can’t fine a replacement! The fluidmaster replacement (at...

I want to seal around the electrical cables coming through the ceiling in our bedrooms and bathroom to limit the moist air getting into the loft (where we have a minor condensation problem). What’s the best material to use? Caulk? Silicone? Something else? Thanks.

The original part of my house is around 170 years old. The rooms on the first floor have a flat ceiling which slopes down along with the pitch of the roof as it gets closer to the walls. Above the flat part of the ceiling there is about 300mm of normal, glass wool, Knauf roll out insulation...

Hi, On one side of my 1850s house, the exterior ground level is higher than the internal floor level. So, there was a flowerbed full of damp stone and soil sitting against the first 60cm of the wall. As damp problems are materialising internally, I am in the process of digging this flowerbed...

Hi, I live in an old house, mid 19th Century. Last summer, as part of roofing work, I had the two chimneys rebuilt (one was leaning, and in the other the pointing had failed so badly that a rebuild was advised). One chimney is in use with a wood-burning stove, and we had it lined. The other...

Hi I have taken down a knackered conservatory attached to my house. I am left with two pieces of lead flashing where the conservatory roof met the wall. I can see that the flashing is chased into the render, but I don't know how deeply (we never had any problem with water getting in). What's...

Hi, I have just finished painting my fascias, and some rafters which come through the wall and are exposed behind the fascias. I sanded, then painted over the old paint with Dulux trade quick dry primer undercoat 2 in 1. Then I applied 1 coat of Dulux weathershield quick dry gloss, in black...

Hi, I have noticed a run of external bricks which are quite damp (so damp that moss is growing on them). This is a run about 2 bricks wide running the vertical length of the wall (which is a bout a single storey, as it is above our side return roof). Pictures attached. This is our...

Hi All, I'd be very grateful for your thoughts on a problem we have had for a month, and which we have spent several £100s on, with no success. Despite visits from 3 plumbers/engineers, we cannot get rid of a loud screeching/groaning noise occuring in our plumbing, which seems to emanate...