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Looking for advice on Masonry paint for a more extreme environment? My Wife and I recently bought a property on Skye in the Scottish islands. It's an 1800's Rendered stone walled cottage in excellent order but we are looking at refreshing the exterior paintwork this year. The main issue is that...

We have a third floor shower with a Monsoon N2 pump fitted, date stamped 2007. It has never been the quietest pump, but never sounded coarse or strained, but you could always hear it. Recently we had some work done to the central heating and a lot of pipes replaced etc.... the normal sort of...

Hi there, We moved to our current house about 6 yars ago, and the garage has an elctric remotely operated roller shutter door. About a year ago I noticed that occasionally it would stop rising up, and then another button press and it would then rise completely. I cleaned the guides/runners...

Hello, I need to run some cable from my house to my garage/workshop at the end of my garden. The cabling will come out of the side of the house(detached) and cross a concrete side access space or alleyway, which is about 1 metre wide and laid entirely in concrete. What is the best method of...

Hello, We had new carpet fitted last year, and unfortunately we couldn't arrange any time between the old carpet up and the new one down, to allow us to paint the skirting board. I have avoided this job for a bit now! Not wanting to get any paint on the carpet edge! I'm assuming that wide...

If the owner wished to paint this, would they be legally okay on ladders, or would H&S require scaffold? Should the owner employ someone to paint the exterior, would it legally demand scaffold? The porch outside the door, and the (not clear) eare in front of the windows where the pots are is...

I posted previously over woes with Anglian trying to install a window. Eventually after 6 months they have got the correct frame in place, with the replacement lower windowsill we asked for. However........... I'm not convinced of the sealing. First picture shows as much of the window as I can...

Small South London edwardian house. Been there 4 years now, and this crack has opened up recently I suspect due to dry conditions and probably clay foundations! this is the extent of the crack, nothing upstairs, and having lived in a number of south London Victorian/Edwardian houses on clay...

Hi all, looking for some advice. In brief, a well known national glazing firm has installed a large window for us. It's about 3m square, on the side of our house on the first floor. It's wrong in that the finish on the frame is not what we ordered, and incorrect but.... when informed of this...

We have a 3 story Edwardian house with chimney stacks either side. The one facing south takes the brunt of the weather, and we have always had slight damp issues eminating from it when the rain drives very hard in a southerly gale. A few months back I awoke in the night to very high winds and a...

Good morning, I have been installing my bathroom bit by bit, and last thing before the decoration is the shower. I have the tiled walls part of the enclosure up and ready, and intended to fit the shower thermostatic valve, a Pura BV05 and riser and shower head before putting up the glasswork...

In a nutshell, we bought a house recently, big 3 storey Edwardian job. The previous owners had fitted an Atag boiler of good size, and technically it's still within guarentee but only via the manufacturer as sadly the fitter died just before they moved, so the installation is not covered any...

Hi all, I'm posting this here as on searching there seem to be a few other chimney related questions and some good responses. We've moved recently. The new house is 1908, large Georgian pile, V-nice etc... Has double glazing all round, quite well sealed etc. Last night we were in our...

We are selling our house, which had a small extention built 8 years ago. It didn't require PP but the BC guy came aorund regularly, inspected the foundations and work during etc. and appeared at the end. No certificate was issued at the time, it wasn't discussed as a requirement to have one...

Perhaps someone can help? Last week we were watching TV and the RCD for the downstairs ring clicked off. We clicked it back on and finished the program. Then afterwards it did it again whilst using the PC. So we decided to hit the sack. Just before heading up we noticed some blistered gloss...