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Here is a Victorian terraced house. - The downspout from the single-storey bay gutter goes underground and out on to the street (or, it would if it wasn't currently blocked) and is old metal. - The taller main downspout from the main roof gutter exits into the front forecourt. It's plastic and...

This poor window above PVC French doors is missing both upper and lower quadrant/beading... What exactly is the product, where can I get it and how can I install it? I'm not sure what I'm feeling and seeing behind the existing lengths... something grey and part-soft, like a sealant? Looks...

Okay, here is a question with a view to being lazy... I have three curtain connected rails in a Victorian terraced bay window (tall). Installing, in 2013, was... a learning curve... hitting all sorts of hard stuff... lintel of concrete and steel, I'd say. It was like a journey to the centre of...

This is a Victorian terraced house. I think you call this a cross-gabled roof... I have a problem wherein the portion of lower, longer guttering at the lower roof is receiving excess water from the upper roof. This is causing splash-over, which has been occurring for years. Video #1, October...

In my Victorian terraced house, the middle room chimney breast has this dark patch at the lower right... FYI - in 2012/13, the house was renovated by a cowboy developer-owner. That involved removal of the front chimney stack serving the front room and this middle room. House was re-roofed...

In my house, previous owned renovated without plastering the bottom of walls inside alcove cabinets. It would have been just like these cowboys to just put skirting board over the unfilled bottom - but they didn't even do that. Brickwork is exposed. How should I go about making this good...

The short downspout from the lower bay roof is blocked. Evidence: water build-up and evident gunk at the opening of the pipe. In this Victorian Terraced house, the pipe goes under the garden and exits onto the pavement. From out on the pavement, I have pushed five metres of drain rods in with...

My kitchen radiator is filling with hot water despite my TRV being set to 0. This goes for two TRVs... - Basic programmable Bluetooth one that uses a motorised push-pin. - Old basic TRV with settings 0-5. On removal of TRV, the pin goes up and down. Not loads, but I'm not sure how much it...

Any methods for straightening out bowed internal doors without taking them off? Asking the impossible?

Two valves, gas central heating. I've learned that the two valves are likely to be: -- Lockshield: Controls amount of hot water entering the radiator ("also ensures the operation of the towel radiator won’t impact the performance of other radiators in your home). -- Wheel-head: Controls amount...

Roofing contractors damaged the flue behind this gas fire. They have proposed replacing the flue. What do you think needs to come off the wall here to do that? My mother is having kittens over the prospect of the surround and everything having to come off, which is what has basically been...

I fancy putting down some hard-wearing floor covering over floorboard in my hallway. Sisal/seagrass appeals, but is so expensive. I see a way to buy "remnants" here - https://designer-carpet.co.uk/search/remnant/sisal?length=5.00&width=1.00 What is the wisdom of buying remnant stock of any...

I'm interested in using the dead space either side of a wardrobe in an alcove. I imagine approx five mini shelves extending upward, either side. Any easy ways to do this for a DIY dunce, without moving the wardrobe?

Storm Gareth has taken down my big garden gate. The ironmongery was rusted. How do I remove and replace this hinge part, which seems to be integrated? That's not a grafted-on piece of wood, it's a split; the section is cut out for the hinge. Thanks.

My boiler has dropped below 1 bar, and the pilot light is going out when it hits a certain temperature. I know I can repressurise the boiler. But I don't know which taps to use. Please can you help? Here is a photo of all six of my Ariston ecombi boiler taps. The hot and cold are even...

These pictures from my upstairs middle bedroom show gaps beneath wall skirtings to exposed floorboards, on both outside- and inside-facing walls. The gaps are both vertical and somewhat horizontal, up to about 1cm to 1.5cm, leaving both masonry wall behind and under-floorboard cavity exposed...

In my middle room, on the right-hand side of the right alcove, there is plaster and paint degradation. About 1.5m up, inside, there is some kind of damp issue. Just outside, there is some, too, as well as cracking. Inside, there is an area where the plaster is light to the tap (water...

Moved in to refurbished/replastered Victorian terraced home in mid 2013. In the front lounge, north-facing bay window, there is damp or condensation. See diagram attached. These walls are very cold. We don't see window condensation, but also don't much think there is water coming in (windows...

We live in a Victorian terraced house. In parts (esp. the lounge, it's cold). My family keep saying, "Get carpet, it will be warmer." I agree, but I'd hate to lose the floorboards look. What alternative insulation methods are there that would allow us to be warmer and to retain the...

Hi, I want to put a couple of floating shelves on a wall between two side walls, above a toilet. It's unlikely off-the-shelf (pun intended) floating shelves from the shop will be the exact right width (75cm W x 22cm D, as it happens). So how do I go about getting the right dimensions for...