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Replacing barge boards. Original wet verge, tiles overhang some 75mm+ from front of board Cement onto asbestos for wet verge As the tile overhang is too much for dry verge,if i cut tiles back verge will sit on the lower part of tile profile, just worried about water ingress. What is the correct...

hi Bosch Aquatack 1200 plus pressure washer trigger stays on. have stripped trigger down and can't see how the is supposes to return to the off position. I assume it returns to the off position using the pressure from the water or does it use a spring (which is what i was expecting) but no...

Hi Renovating an old pool table and need to find a source for some plywood edging strip. Two pictures attached showing profile, its approx 18mm deep with one edge slightly curved. have been looking on web and not found anything similar yet, I may well be able to modify trim from a more...

hi looking for advice and guidance on fitting downlighters into plaster and lathe ceilings, how best to cut holes and ensure ceiling integrity remains do we need to support lathes that are now separated etc. and what other considerations do we need to consider, electrician will be doing...

Hi structural engineer specified c16 timber to support one end of Universal beam which is all now in to spec (other end is on padstone in brick wall) i understand that the beam needs to be double skinned with 12mm plasterboard and have done similar on another beam we installed. Question is...

Victorian house - my family have lived in the house for many years and as such house has never had a survey of any kind. We have not known of or found any visual signs of damp on ground floor walls. As part of current renovation quite a lot of internal render/plasterwork has to be removed...

hi we have a chimney stack that has been removed with the bricks being removed down just past the roof tile level with roof tiles reinstated to fill the hole. my question is can the chimney be left like that or do we need to have the flue capped off in the loft space. chimney breasts in...

hi as part of house renovation we will be removing the old tiles off a small old extension on back of house, construction is timber upper frame as in the photo (which is the bit we want to clad) and lower/ ground floor is brick. area to cover is approx 18m2 including sides and short...

hi just wondered if anyone has used the diy asbestos testing process where you post off a sample of the possible asbestos material and have it tested in a lab and they send you the results back. most likely will be using a local firm to come out and take sample and provide test results...

Hi We are about to plumb in a washing machine into a room that will become a laundry room. It is a small room so will only have the washing machine in it no sink etc. the plumbing will be permanent fix to the machine. 13a FSU above worktop and socket under for machine. Just wondered if...

hi we will be putting bonding coat/hardwall on the internal brick work face of an external solid brick wall but looking to use plasterboard on the areas surrounding the window recess (as this area will be battened out to bring plumb. Is it ok to have the bonding coat and plasterboard meeting...

hi Looking for advice on how best to remove paint and in some cases paper and paint from curved plain plaster coving. Wallpaper steam stripper seems to be working ok but its difficult to scrape paint off due to the curve. Option so far is to adapt a standard shave hook type scraper to...

hi while waiting for my building regs application for a number of jobs. we need to install a new soil stack to serve new upstairs toilet and groundfloor toilet. looking at installing a mini access chamber into existing clay pipe work as per photo attached. issue for us is that the...

hi there looking for some advice and guidance on dismantling and rebuilding sandstone block gate posts. gate posts are approx 1.8m high each sandstone block is 460mm square each post is leaning so needs rebuilding before we fit new wooden gates, although the lean does add a bit of...