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Thank you! Do you know how the head comes off? I can’t see any screws

Here is the tap

Hi. We have increasingly bad water hammer caused by what I assume is a worn washer in the bath mixer tap, as it is also continually leaking. The hammering stops if you apply pressure to or lift up slightly the hot tap on the mixer. The tap is mounted on the side of the bath. Is there any way of...

Sorry to write again but felt it might be helpful to clarify what I would plan to do I would take out the shower and take the master bedroom wall in c.1m, and install either a double or triple winder which started just after the bathroom door and turned to the right. The first six risers would...

Difficult to fully get into loft - not well boarded and lots of stuff - but the height from the top of a joist to below the ridge just before the end of the hip was 2860mm so ~2900 - 3000mm at the top. Eaves to ridge run is 2750mm based on floor plan. So around a 47o pitch. Roof is trussed...

Hi. I am in the difficult place of house hunting and trying to assess whether it is possible to do various things to various properties based on floor plans etc. I have seen a house that would be of interest if the loft could be converted. The problem is that the stairs are between two rooms as...

So having done some fairly panicked reading around I realised I should provide more context. This is a purlin end in a 1900s mid terrace. The other end is set into the chimney breast brickwork. There is limited evidence of rot in some of the beams in the centre of this elevation, around a Velux...

I've just been up in my roof to look at some rot in the beams around a Velux and I've noticed this situation with the wall fixing for one of the main supports. Can someone tell me if this looks to be at urgent risk of collapse? Seriously considering calling someone out.

Thanks for the reassurance and advice. A watching brief but tempted to repoint unless the inne4 lintel starts to fail.

There's a very heavy timber architrave on the inside which may be providing structural support - I would have to take this out to assess whether there is a separate lintel. The arhcitrave been left intact. I suppose my concern is that the 'triangle of risk' contains a floor joist for the...

Not with a house, no. Acrow props and use the back door, then?

I think the stupid but obvious question keeping me awake the last couple of nights is 'is the house about to fall down'?

It's not clear, but the fourth soldier brick from left has dropped about 1cm, and the first course above it has a brick that is dropping away from the mortar bed above

Thank you - could I reasonably have expected said large company to flag this when taking our money?

Hi - I would gratefully value some urgent advice. Two months ago a large national glazing company replaced a very battered timber door in our house, with a uPVC one. The photo below shows the house as of this morning. Despite the poor quality, I'm sure my cause for concern is obvious -...

Thanks - so it's likely the joists run perpendicular to the visible beam, which is attached to the joists?

Forgot to say, no wall cracks. The only other visible cracking is around the upstairs interior door above the RSJ, between the ceiling and plasterboard wall on a downstairs stud.