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Hi all, See pics attached for detail. I have a dividing wall between me and a neighbor. This wall has shown signs of movement for a while, but in recent times some bricks have started to push out and mortar is falling off. Like a game of jenga, I was able to pull a brick out and behind it is a...

Hi all, I have an en-suite which has a radiator and a weeping flow connector. The joint/connection is some kind of pushfit I think (or similar). It is behind a tiled wall that is inaccessible. I can get in to the void behind there via removing the small sink unit, BUT, the flow to the rad goes...

I'm struggling to find an external front door in the material and style that I want, but there are a few options for it when looking at internal fire doors. They are also a bit cheaper. As fire doors are the same thickness as a typical front door, would there be any issues in using them in...

Hi all, On Friday evening I spotted a damp patch on the ceiling where it meets an external wall. It hadn't rained for a few days before this. If it did, it was a a very light shower at worse. Click the pics below: Above that ceiling is an en-suite, with a toilet in the general location...

Hi all, I'm hoping for some advice on a troubling issue. The situation is: - house undergoing full renovation - Current works mainly consist of full house replastering so quite a bit of moisture - recent loft conversion carried out as part of renovation All is well, apart from a soggy purlin...

Hi All, I've had a few quotes to put down 38sqm of engineered oak flooring on to a 6 week old concrete slab. Two of them were £750 to float the boards straight on, one was £1,140 to apply sealer/primer throughout and also stick the boards down with adhesive. Is it generally best to stick the...

Hello, A long while back the basement window of our house was bricked up and we now want to put it back to how it was. The current situation is that we have a small hole there where materials have made their way in to the basement during conversion. It would be great to get an idea of what to...

Hi all, Bit of an issue. We specified a finished floor level with a flush bi-fold door threshold in mind, and were very clear with the builder about the required floor height. All was agreed. Insulation was laid, concrete poured and left to set. The floor has come out approx 20-25mm lower than...

Hi all, See the diagram attached for a visual explanation here. We have an extension on the back of the house. Due to one reason and another the bifold doors that go across the back and set pretty low in the brickwork. There will be a 1 - 1.5 brick stepdown from the sill to the ground. To the...

Hi all, As it's not building-work specifically, I thought I stick this in here. Designing a kitchen layout and I'm struggling to decide on what will work best from a functional point of view, as well as a livable space point of view. Take a look at the attached and see what you think of these...

Hello, I wish to put a sink in my kitchen island, but will really struggle with enough fall on the waste pipe to the drain outside. My question is, is there a cost-effective simple automatic water pump solution for a situation like this? I don't intend to push anything big and nasty down the...

We have 2 courses of engineering bricks making up the above-ground DPC for a new extension. A set of bifolds will be installed and I could do to drop these down the external brickwork a bit. Removing a whole course of DPC would be too big a drop, and it seems that shaving approx 30mm off the...

Hi all, Does anyone know of a neat way to hang a pendant light below a velux window in a pitched roof? We have a velux directly over the center of a dining table, and would quite like a light to hang down at this point. I was thinking perhaps a discreet white steel bar spanning the opening...

When installing cavity drain membrane (the bubble wrap type stuff), should you be able to angle it in to corners nice and tight? E.g in an alcove area. I'm having it fit and inspected the results earlier. In the corners the membrane rounds off a lot. I can't see how this will get plastered with...

Hypothetically speaking, if you'd completed an installation of something but it wasn't ideal, would you scratch it and spend the necessary cash to put it 100% right. I suppose it depends on certain variables, mainly how much of a percentage the extra spend is in relation to the initial spend on...

Hi all, Due to re-configuring a staircase, we'll need to move a door over approx 220mm. The result is that it will have about 50-60mm space from the perpendicular wall that it encroaches on (max). This is enough for the frame/hinges, and a pretty thin strip of architrave down that side. Any...

Hi all, I've been losing sleep and feeling very ill trying to think of how best to tackle my predicament. In a nutshell: I Put my dormer loft conversion out to tender and attracted several quotes. Received quotes/advice/info etc. Everyone agreed it is within permitted development and ticks...

Hi all, Before I embark on something I'd like to quickly ask if it is ok to take an existing GRP roof and extend it over a larger area? This would essentially involved cutting along the edge of the existing roof, then GRP'ing from that cut and over another few square meters, creating a bigger...

Hi all, I have a basement all opened up and in the stages of becoming a living/kitchen/dining area. One half of it is all good, the other half needs damp proofing. I've been getting mixed recommendations from damp proofers and am looking for experiences and opinions on the matter! The primary...

Hi all, I'm looking to buy a new property and it hinges, to a fair degree, on the ability to create a little more living space. I've attached 4 images to this post. basement-floorplan-options.jpg: What I'd like to achieve. option is 1) is a fallback, Option 2) is preferred, and option 3)...