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Hi I was looking for some advice for a friend. My mates neighbour had a large section of scaffolding erected at the side of his house - he had had this erected and in the same location for over 15 years. It is over two stories tall (large Victorian property), hugely unsightly, very rusty and...

Hi folks I am looking some advice if possible. I have purchased untreated Western Red Cedar fencing boards to construct a fence in my back yard. Whilst I like the natural colour of the western red cedar I personally like a richer tone and am trying to prevent the greying process. I...

Hi all. I am getting the back yard done up and had hoped/planned to install a hardwood fence. I am wanting this for mainly asthetic reasons, however, I am also wanting the area I am doing to last and to have a quality feel. So I have been getting quotes etc and of course the fence is starting...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. Having moved into our semi detached property a year ago I am now getting round to doing up the rear yard. We are looking at creating a contemporary paved area and to put up a nice hardwood horizontal fence. The thing is there is already a fence there that faces...

Hope someone can help. We bought and did up an old house 2 years ago and had the place redecorated at the end of a lot of internal works. The decorating was completed about 15 months ago. Prior to us moving in the house was unoccupied for quite a period of time and required substantial damp...

New roof installed and when I am up in the roof space there are some gaps where the tiles meet the barge board at the gable of the house. Basically there is no cement that fils the gaps above the barge board and the underside of the tiles. This creates a pretty cold and draughty space up there...

Got a question for all you bright sparks that know a lot more than me about the dark arts of electrics. About 12 months ago I got an old house re-wired and since that time I have had to change a huge number of bulbs and fuses. There is a set of under cabinet light bulbs in the kitchen that are...

Quick question about one of my oak work tops in the kitchen. I lifted the toaster off the surface today to give it a coat of Osmo oil and noticed that there a split/crack in the wood emanating from the edge of the worktop towards the centre of the surface. The split is only a few inches long and...

Hi I hope someone can help me and this is the correct place to post this. We have an intermittent problem regarding the fireplaces in our house. We live in an old Victorian property that had fireplaces in most of the rooms. 7 fireplaces in total feeding into 2 main chimneys. We have sealed...

I folks I am looking for some advice. We have applied for and been successful in regards to getting planning for a roof terrace on our Victorian property in a conservation area. At this stage I have got architectural drawings but they don't answer a lot of the questions that I have! To give...

I have nice Scottish Sandstone windowsills in our Vic era property, however, one in particular has developed a problem. There is a 6" hole in the flat top surface - the hole is about 5-10mm deep. The top of the sill sounds pretty much boast and I assume that the top layer of the brick is coming...

Hi I was hoping someone could help me with a problem. I finally got round to trying to install the plaster ceiling rose in my daughters bedroom and at the same time I was changing the pendant shade. The ceiling light hasn't worked for ages in her room but we only ever use lamps in the house so...

Bit of a stupid question probably but I know v little about gas boilers. With the fine weather we are having I have set out wireless thermostat to the off position as there is no need for heating. Can someone explain to me why my Baxi combi boiler sounds like it fires up for a period of time yet...

We have recently moved into our house having done a lot of work to the house. One of the works was an entire re-plumb including a brand new heating system (pipes, boiler, rads etc). I am learning about the place all the time and recently I noticed some of the rads furthest from the boiler needed...

Hi I was hoping someone can help me. I have just done a big project in a house I bought. In the kitchen I have had 3 ceiling speakers installed - EAW CIS65, a Mackie Subwoofer and a EAW CAM150 amplifier. I plan to connect a iPod dock and Digital Radio to the amp but had also intended to wire the...

Hi I was hoping for a bit of advice. Having spent over £6.5k getting 22 sash windows reconditioned/replaced, draught proofed and decorated I have noticed that in very high winds some of the windows whistle. Generally they are sound but a small number of them are clearly not well sealed. They are...