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Looking for some advice - I would like to remove the roof joists that prior to replacing a flat roof with a pitched roof used to support a felted flat roof. The new roof is built on new trusses that sit above the old joists except over the outside wall where the new trusses are on top of the...

Hi I have a worcester Bosch Highflow 400 RSF which is sometimes not supplying hot water when the heating is also on, when the Heating is switched off the Hot Water fires immediately. I have changed the water dverter valve and chcked the pressure which is fine. Can anyone tell me if the...

Hi I have a 1960 house which has an inner leaf of calcium bricks. On the back of the house and only on the first floor thermal expansion is causing cracks in the plaster work that are diagonal from the top corners of the windows. The cracks appear only when the sun is shining, (the house...

Hi I have a house built in 1960. The house has large windows of between 2 and 3 metre widths. We have cracks at the top left and right of the windows on the first floor at the rear (south facing). The cracks are in the plaster work and start at the corner of the window and rise to the...

Hi, we are replacing a flat roof on our double garage with a pitched roof and we are thinking of including a room in the garage roof loft. What building regulations would I have to think about when designing this . The room wouldnt be done out with plaster board etc , it would be wooden...

I have a 1960's house with large windows and what seem to be heavy duty lintels. I am trying to put up curtain rail/pole brackets but I cant drill the holes because the lintels seem to be incredibly solid. I have used a masonry drill, a drill on hammer setting and normal setting. Does...

We have calcium bricks as an inner layer with cavity wall insulation between them and the outer skin of bricks. We know that we have to get the house repointed in the spring because we have seen major leaks when the rain is driving against the side of the house. The issue is that we have...

Hi we would like to varnish our new softwood bannister whilst painting the rest white. We are concerned that it will go that horrible orange colour that pine goes, does any one have any tips on how to stop this such as staining first. Thanks

I am looking for 130mm floor boards, thats 130mm width and 20mm depth. I can only find 120mm width boards. Does anyone know of any suppliers.

Would it be okay to put insulation material under first floor floorboards?