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Hi All, We have a sizable double garage and Im thinking of converting one half into an office. My current plan is to do this with zero structural change to the garage*. Ill basically will be putting in insulation (it's a single brick building), plasterboard, and nothing else, it already has...

Our house has never been warm. I know it has cavity wall insulation as I've come across it while drilling holes and having a wood burner installed a few years back. But how good is what we have I just don't know. There could be voids around the house, I simply don't know. And what is in the wall...

Our Gas and Electic meter boxes are in a bit of a state and need replacing. In addition to this, we had an engineer visit a while back to install a smart meter and couldn't as our boxes are metal. my confusion lies in who to talk to with regards to getting them replaced - is this a simple...

Okay, Im not a total idiot but still... I have a large double garage which already has a partition down the middle - other than that is single brick, concrete floor construction with two single-glazed windows. Building a stud wall/adding buttons to the walls is a piece of cake. Where I'm a...

I have a double garage which is actually divided in two. One side is already insulated, the other side is not The side that’s not insulated is storing wood that’s used for my wife’s business and needs to be kept dry, currently we have a humidifier running more or less 24/7 which is not ideal...

Our house has always been cold... In an attempt to find out why I popped my head into one of our crawlspaces in our lost conversion. See attached image - Looks a state. We have about 15 meters of crawl space like this that needs to be insulated. Below this section is our living room, but it...

Long story short,,…we have a loft conversion (came with the house when we brought it) with loft space that runs along the side, these are small spaces but I have access. There are 3 sections, more like crawl spaces but each about 12ft long. In these crawl spaces we have a single layer of...

Hi All, We have two rooms, roughly 55m2. I've had a couple of quotes, one slightly above 2k and the other just under, both from well-known carpet supplies. Obviously £2k is a lot of money and if that's the cost it's going to be that's the cost it's going to. But at that cost Id be a fool not...

Hi all, Let me just say improbably, almost definitely going to get a plumber in for this... So, our Grohe (low pressure/pumped) shower unit has gone pop, it's old, and Grohe no longer supports it. So time to buy another. we were thinking of this one - Mira Platinum Valve & Controller...

So, I have a rental property with an old and slowly deteriorating (wood) conservatory. Ive had a quote to replace all the wood with pvc and pop on a new roof - £6100 This is out of my budget unfortunately, and seeing as its a rental its not essential to have the conservatory anyway, its just a...

So - I have about 31 meters of coving to install, most of it is in fairly small sections - 3 meters here, .5 meters there. But two walls, one 5 and another 7 meters long have a bit of a dip in the ceiling. Whats the best plan of action here, any advice would be appreciated?!

Hi All, I have a garage which due to a bunch of boring reasons has been wired by an idiot, and most of the wiring his hidden behind plasterboard. My garage is split into two (just a partition wall down the middle), but both sides include 3 overhead lights, and 5 plug sockets.....although I...

Ive been removing some old plaster work that was not done incorrectly correctly, and on Monday a plasterer is arriving to re-skim the wall. So, in the process of removing the old skim layer Ive come across the supporting beam which by the looks of it has been filled with cement and bricks...and...

Hi guys and gals. I own a smallish bungalow which I rent that due to its construction has some damp problems - its a 1920s build with little to none ventilation. So - the company who manages it have supplied me with a quote to install a couple of fans (bathroom and kitchen) and a PPU/PIV...

Hi! So one of our roof files has broken and I need advice to replace it. The tile immediately above the broken tile runs under the ridge tile and there is a lot of cement keeping that tile totally ridged and unmovable- so Im unable to lift it to remove and replace the broken tile. Im thinking...

Hi All, Over the last few weeks Ive been slowly sanding down my dark stained stairs, and this weekend I started priming them. Ive primed it with Zinsser B-I-N. Which I have to sand out some brush marks but going well. My question is what next..... The primer had some quite a good...

So, in out house we have (what we think) is a decorative fireplace - its really large and we would like to remove it and replace it with something a little smaller and compact. heres what we have and heres what we would like (more or less) Can any one give any indication of...