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Hi, front wooden gutter/troughing/spouting was rotten in the middle and leaking so had it replaced with Twinplas by a roofer of over 20 yrs experience. Unfortunately 24 hours later the left join is dripping. The gutter length was to be installed with 2 sleeves, sealant and 2 wall brackets as...

Hi, Most of our fence facing the back street consists of concrete posts and gravel boards - 6ft with a trellis topper. Particularly the posts and some gravel boards have signs of past repair. Looking on Google StreetView the repairs date back at least 10 years+. The far end is the worst with...

Hi, I've had all the gutters and downpipes to the main house replaced - previously plastic/cast iron mix. The new gutters are 5" seamless aluminium in a Victorian style and downpipes 68mm cast aluminium. The upper part of the side gable was previously a rotten wooden gutter with fall to the...

Hi, I've just had some new seamless aluminium guttering and cast aluminium downpipes installed. The gutter on the left side apex was wooden and rotten, it had a cast iron swan neck connecting it to the lower gutter. I was told the gutter and downpipe arrangement had been left the same, but...

Hi, Roof structure in 1st pic, rear of the house 2nd pic from May 2022. Noticed last night, 3rd pic, inside of bathroom cupboard lots of yellow marks/stains, went up in loft above back of house and looking up through the hatch 4th pic the large timber seemed to be very wet in places as well as...

Hi, I had some gates made about 12 months ago.. The other week I found the left side of the double gates completely open, but still padlocked with bolts across. The other half was adamant I was dozy and shut the gate without putting the bolts into the receptacles?! Anyway.. Some scaffolders...

Hi, I've just had some scaffolders take a scaffold down, paid them and after they've gone, on inspection, the gutter next to where the scaffolding was is now damaged. It's cracked all the way across and dripping. I'm having all the gutters and downpipes replaced but not for at least 6 weeks as...

Hi, I have a pair of lovely original sash windows on the 3rd floor which are the last remaining in the house - everything else is standard uPVC. At the moment the side is scaffolded for other repairs, so the windows are accessible. It looks like the paint is cracked all over, putty missing in...

Hi, We have a Mira Sport 9.0 electric shower in the bathroom - it's not getting hot, the water is barely lukewarm and with winter approaching isn't ideal. If someone flushes the toilet or if you run a tap - it gets warm. This was the case before but it would get scalding hot. I believe it's...

Hi, So the front, side and rear of my house has exposed purlins under overhanging eaves. At the front, the purlins on the left hand side of the apex towards the top and middle of the roof have a lot of paint missing - I just assumed they had weathered and needed painting but they seem on their...

Hi, The other half's dad came to stay, didn't turn the bathroom handle - thought he was locked in and pulled the entire doorknob off. Though to be fair it was only held on with 1 screw. It's taken a strip of wood off the middle rail, right hand side is 110mm and left hand side 250mm from edge...

Hi, My property needs some roof repairs but none of it is particularly DIY friendly so I've got a couple of quotes with massive variance. Just wondering what is reasonable? We have '4 roofs' all pitched - it's a Victorian end terrace. The front and side is a gable end where the edge is...

Hi, The central heating has never worked well - only the rads nearest to the combi boiler in the kitchen get hot. The others get warm around the top, upstairs is even worse. The boiler has been repaired a couple of years ago under a fixed price by the manufacturer but it's now on the blink...

Hi, Some of my lap panels are falling apart. They are on top of concrete gravel boards between concrete posts. I saw a YouTube video showing how to make vertical close board panels so I went out and got some materials. I have feather edge boards 17mm on thick end, 6mm thin - 5ft long and...

Hi, We have a Bosch Serie 4 washing machine, model WAN28201GB which suddenly won't work properly. If you put it on a normal programme e.g. cottons, everything initially seems to work as expected - door locks, wash and add laundry symbols light up, water is added into the drum but then...

Hi, The missus has ordered a small playhouse for our toddlers birthday. It's a TP Meadow from Argos which is 1m x 1.3m. The area she would like it situating in is currently grass. What would be an easy to install base, we have seen plastic mesh, or small cheap flags, alternatively some used...

Hi, Front bedroom Artex ceiling is damaged from past leak, couple of bits where it sticks downwards and there is a crack from wall to wall, possible to repair? Or job for a plasterer? Other rooms have cracks wall to wall which I assume are between the plasterboard sheets.. is there an easy...

Hi, We have a 1970s bungalow, the gable end seems to have an issue with the original steel window lintels having rusted. One window has a gap in the pointing of about 12mm where the bricks have raised all the way along. The other window has a door as well so a bigger span, gap in pointing at...

Hi, Would be nice to put some boards down for storage in this Victorian roof space and be able to move around, store Christmas decorations and other stuff. It's at the back above my sons bedroom, accessed from a hatch on the landing - headroom in centre is about 5', there is no lighting. The...

Hi, I've got a couple of places where the wallpaper has flaking paint. Is it possible to repaint without stripping either the paint or wallpaper? I read about Toupret filler but this wallpaper is patterned. The image shows the chimney breast at the top of the stairs. I've since scraped more...