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Hi, This is a GRP warm roof built in 2022. In cold weather there are consistently hot spots of melted ice in the locations pictured. Is this expected or does it indicate poor construction? How would you investigate? I had my doubts about the builder expertise with this type of roof tbh, and...

Hi, we have an absolutely freezing attached utility room which we would like to insulate to make it more pleasant and economical to heat in the winter months. It is approx 9m x 1.9m internally. Outside is rendered. It has an internal manhole with a sealed/tiled cover (near the front doors)...

Hi, In order to create a bit more hall space I want to get rid of this corner cupboard and replace with panelling of some sort, floor to ceiling to hide the meters, stop tap etc ( I don’t need the hooks/coat storage). The plan is then to put coir style matting across the front and carpet the...

Hi, a heating engineer came to fix my combi, but ended up concluding that there’s a hot/cold water crossover caused by the thermostatic valve in my shower (he checked the tsps and mixers on all the other basins ). However he ‘only does boilers’ so he didn’t want to touch the shower :rolleyes...

As above, standard 1930s semi with recent conversion. We’ve been in house 2 years, conversion was done 18 months ago. In last couple months , first the plaster along the stair skirting started cracking and now a gap has opened up (from approx 9th step upwards). Gap is approx 20mm now. Paint...

Hi, I just bought this vintage sideboard but the drawer bottoms are bowed and have popped out of the slots at the back. How can I fix these to ensure they don’t pop out again? I don’t think glue would be up to the job on its own? Back and sides are some sort of white plastic with a slot all...

I’ve inherited this gate with my newish house. I want to cap that top piece of the frame to stop water pooling on it, as it is already starting to go grungy/rotten at the house end. The top piece is 2.4m long and 100mm wide. I think my lack of knowledge of the terms used for this are...

Hi, I guess this isn't normal? Karndean fitted last week in new extension and into existing concrete kitchen floor. Floor makeup is concrete slab, small depth of screed to level, celotex, chipboard floor, latex, sanded high points, then karndean. Every single row is visible and each row dips to...

I know nothing about drains so please bear with me as our drains have started stinking the garden up & the house when the doors/windows are open (internally no smell). We have a linear drain that runs around our utility and extension into a combined waste/rain water drain - red arrows in pic...

I’m having an aluminium window next to aluminium sliding door in my extension. This strip between the two looks a bit scruffy to me, considering the cost of the damn window and door. .. Is there a better way to do this? Maybe hiding the cut ends of the trim in some way?

Hi - we're having a flat (1/60) roof built abutting an existing garage dual pitch roof. The 1/60 direction is along the length of the pitched roof. To my layman's eyes, the existing felt on the pitched roof should be lapped over the waterproof top of the roof, in case of water ingress under the...

BC have approved re-use of our existing conservatory foundations to rebuild a new single storey extension. How should we approach liability if the foundations were to fracture or there was some other structural issue with the extension? Many thanks.

Hi , we are reusing the existing foundations and (uninsulated) slab from our conservatory for a new extension. Removing the existing tiles and screed gives us 8cm to the desired final floor level. Architect has specified “50mm kingspan kooltherm k103 then Continal ufh of either TileFix-18 or...

Hi, We are replacing a c.2003 rear conservatory in a 1930s semi, with an extension on the same footprint. This is about 0.5m from the boundary with our attached neighbour. The size is 5.1m from back of house x 5.3m wide As a bit of investigation has shown that the foundations are 75cm deep...

I would like to put some shelves in a new loft conversion bedroom. See picture below, I have sketched the sort of thing I’m after in the right hand alcove, and the lower sketches show a couple of potential ways I came up with to do this. Could anyone please help with how to put these together...

Hi, We are in the final stages of our hip to gable loft conversion on a semi detached 30s house. The builder has had to put a new downpipe for the front of the roof and it runs down the side of the house to discharge on our block paving about a foot from a linear drain (1st photo = bottom of...

We’ve just moved into this house which has a kitchen diner inside a conservatory. The pics below are from the Rightmove advert. 2 sides of the conservatory are the existing house and a utility room, a third wall was built for the conservatory. Only the rear 4th side is glazed substantially with...

Hopefully there is a simple answer to this question - thanks in advance. I have received 4 template documents from my builder relating to the PWA to give to my neighbour: 1. Party Structure Notice 2. Acknowledgement of Party Structure Notice 3. Line of Junction Notice 4. Acknowledgement of...

Hi all, We’ve just moved house and the front door jamb has an impressive crack as pictured. Can anyone advise on whether this would be considered an urgent (structural) repair and whether this would be one for a regular builder or someone more specialised in sandstone like a stonemason? edit...

Hi We have a Victorian terrace with a mid-90s loft conversion (so no idea of the spec in areas I can't access) - it has proper stairs, a bedroom & an ensuite in a small rear dormer. The loft was regularised by the council in 2013 as part of our purchase of the house. It is not really very...