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No, you're right. I probably don't have the skills. Will try your suggested approach. Thanks.

I have some pipework running parallel with the floor along a section of wall with a fairly sharp kink in it (see pic below). The way I was planning on doing this was to get a length of timber, kerf cut it and fix some wooden blocks to the wall & attach the length of timber. Questions I have...

i put a couple of coats of Ronseal anti condensation paint on that wall and 2 months later it still seems to be holding up

Useful site - just can't work out what a sweep angle is?

Yep, can do that and keep it out of the worst of the rain but just need to make sure it's protected from the all pervading dampness that I get in this part of the world. Will look at the sealants mentioned by the poster above.

It's not really going to be that well protected - it is barely under the eaves of the garage roof. The door in the pic is the one I'm swapping out with the arched door

Sounds a good approach - just wondering if this is going to be suitable for external used though - juat thinking all those bits of ply are going to swell and warp if they get wet unless I can thoroughly weatherproof it.

I'm fitting a nice old wooden external door with a gothic arch onto the side of my garage. Not really sure how to approach the arched part of the door frame. What I have in mind is a couple of soild timber uprights and affix the arch to the top of these. I was thinking get a thick piece of...

I'm fitting a nice old wooden external door with a gothic arch onto the side of my garage. Not really sure how to approach the arched part of the door frame. What I have in mind is a couple of soild timber uprights and affix the arch to the top of these. I was thinking get a thick piece of...

I was wrong, it does drip on the handset too. Not sure which part I need to look at here - I can get to the cartridge but presumably the on/off valve is at the other end of the bar and it looks like I can’t remove the end cap from there like I can the other end.

So the leaking happens when the tap that switches between the rain shower and the flexible hose attachment is positioned on the rain shower. If I switch to the other position I get no leaking. That said, it makes a lot of whistling sounds when I turn on another bathroom tap regardless of what...

Thanks, yes it’s a rain shower.

I know nothing about these devices but the shower head leaks when valve is in the off position and there’s increased flow of the leakage and a whistling sound if I turn on another tap in the bathroom. Am I right is assuming that you can’t get parts for these shower bars and you just replace the...

Thanks all. I had no idea....

Any idea what these 2 apertures are at the base of the window? Are they vents? If so don't see how they work as there's nothing corresponding on the inside of the window....

I've had a look at various other threads on this topic and still can't see what the cause of my problem is. Basically, the plaster on on internal wall of an upstrairs bedroom has got damp and the paint is flaking. The area where this is happening is confined to the end of the wall where...

I've got a shutter frame that I want to fit into a window recess. Because the frame is quite deep and the sides of the recess are chamfered there is a gap of approx 35mm between the recess wall and the front of the frame uprights (see pic). Also the sides of the recess are not straight so this...

I was going to paint the first riser but coming to think of it, your idea makes perfect sense. Thanks.

I'm installing some engineered wood flooring. Haven't decided whether to have a floating floor or glued parquet flooring. Either way, I'm going to need to cut out a gap at the bottom of the first stair riser and fit it under. Reason for this is because it is curved and as far as I'm aware you...

I'm planning on fitting a set of French doors in my living room. Got a builder to make the opening & do the fitting but struggling to find firms who will provide bespoke windows without also insisting on doing the installation too. Can't really do off the shelf because I'm in a conservation...