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Hopefully this is the best place in the forum to ask this question - apologies if not. Also apologies it's so long. We're on day 3 of a 10 day refit of our bathroom. Here is the quote we received, although it's missing a couple of bits including knocking out a none load bearing wall...

Hi all - really hoping you can help us out here. I'm at a total loss as to what permission / sign off etc that my husband and I will need on some work we're having done on our house. We currently have two large bits of work planned; - Knocking through the toilet into the bathroom to make one...

Hi all, I was hoping to get opinions on my bathroom layout from people here. I don't know if you'll be able to read the numbers on the picture or not. But the bathroom is 2.75m x 1.95m. I'm planning to have a 80 x 80cm walk in shower (80x90 or 90x90 if clearance allows) and a normal 170 x 70cm...

We have had a few quotes for UPVC windows and one salesman was raving about thermoflex spacers, and how they were so much better than warm edge aluminium ones. Has anyone with UPVC knowledge got some advice for me on this?

Hi all, We've had a different set of speil 3 times now from different window companies and have 2 quotes that are very similar to each other that we're not sure about. Neither are from local independants but are from reasonably small local firms. All windows are standard white, duraflex, A...

We had some work done by a plumber from mybuilder - about 3 months ago now. We've just noticed today when moving furniture around to vac that there is a damp patch on the wall corresponding to some pipes he moved, rejoined and buried in the wall. We have sent him an email explaining what...

We recently had our 'whole house rewired' (the electricians words). The house has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 living room and 1 kitchen. We paid £2000 for a 'full rewire' as it was described. - The electrician separated the kitchen onto it's own ring main. - Added around 12 Sockets -...

Hi, I don't know much about doors but am trying to do like for like quotes online. One company has offered me a basic cheap PVCu door WITH argon filled glass. And the other said you can't do that on PVCu doors, only composite as it comes as a sealed unit rather than set into the frame...

Hi, I'm about to buy a new door for my house and would like to go down the self buy/fit option. However having measured the frame (following guides online of brick to brick) it is just over 2000mm (can't remember the exact measurement right now). And all the pre-hung doors in the shops...

I could do with some opinions. My driveway looks like this: This isn't my driveway but it is a similar colour and in the same herringbone style. I have a strip that runs down my driveway which I want to line with pebbles or slate but I can't decide on what the best colour would be...

I'm going to be replacing alot of the skirting in my new house and would like recommendations on what primer + paint combo to use. I'm also repainting the existing woodwork + doors. I'd like a nice slightly shiny finish that can be wiped down easily and wont yellow badly (I've heard the dulux...

I'm switching some copper pipes to plastic and running them under my floor boards. I'm not an electrician and am getting one in to do a rewire. However I remember him saying that copper piping had to be a certain distance from electrical wire. Is the same true for plastic pipes? If so how far...

A couple of the UPVC windows have no locks on them at all (not even locking handles). The windows I'm referring to are the two small windows on the ground floor lounge window. And also the two on the upstairs bedroom window. I estimate each one is about 50cm x 20cm (ish). Is it...

I have included a layout of upstairs and downstairs which will hopefully help. I was wondering if the original brick wall that has been taken down (by previous owners) was in fact likely to be a supporting wall for the corner of the stairs? Downstairs in the kitchen the bricks were...

I have recently bought a house and this is the layout upstairs (roughly to scale) I would really like to remove the wall coloured red. It is a 'walk in cupboard' but as it stands is completely useless due to the wall that is there at the moment. Once you 'walk in' you can't use the space...