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Hi, I’m a novice when it comes to DIY. Moving into a fixer upper I’ve had to learn on the job and so far have laid wood flooring, stone floor, tiled walls, skirting, loft boarding, garden fence etc but I’m a bit over my head when it comes to starting on the downstairs loo/bathroom. Do you...

I'm apprehensive of doing any drilling as I'll probably puncture the underfloor heating.

It's nearly a 200 year old house/cottage so no walls are even or straight. The threshold I bought required you to put a strip for it to lock into, but that wouldn't fit into the gap and without it it wouldn't stay in place. I might try and chisel out a section of the doorjambs and use them to...

Hi, I have a varying depth, uneven but overall thin gap between a stone floor and enginnered laminate wood flooring, both sections laid on screed with underfloor heating. The gap is too narrow to fit a T-bar and I don't want to drill into the floor as the undefloor heating pipes are close to the...

Here's a closer shot.

It goes into their house.

Thanks, the police have been involved numerous times, but don't seem to be that interested. They have cctv seperately, as do I but have put that up soon after I reported them to the kennel club. They also seem to know, and remark on personal conversations that i have had on my landline, and...

Could be, we are in the country and there are rats about. However they have a puppy farm in their rear garden, so wouldn't that play havoc with the dogs?

This has recently been installed on a nearby property, they will not disclose what it is and I suspect it is some sort of surveillance or security device. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I be worried that my privacy is being invaded?

Hi, I recently discovered that there has been a small drip/leak from a washing maching water hose join that connects to the water pipe. It's been leaking for a year unoticed....until i pulled away the kitchen border. I've never done any form of plumbing DIY so I have no idea how to best deal...

Hello, we've received a letter outlining a breach of condition regarding planning that was taken out 2 years prior to us buying the property. In a nutshell: Before we bought the house, the owner obtained planning permission to build a dwelling on the land belonging to his existing property...

Not perfectly as it has been temporarily plastered over until we have a fireplace put in

Sorry my doodle is a bit deceiving. All of the walls are in fact not straight, including the chimney breast area. Thanks for your suggestion though.

Hi, I would like some advice if anyone can help. Our living room floor is nice and level thanks to a self leveling concrete screed but as our house is very old all of the walls are not straight. I have engineered wood boards that clip into one another (with adhesive too) and go on top of the...

A B&Q worker recommended i use masonary nails.

Hi, I have attempted to fix mdf skirting board to a very uneven brick wall with Gripfill which didn't hold so I also used a few masonary nails. They were extremely hard to hammer in, and i have managed to get most of them almost flush with the skirting board but not quite. What can i do to...

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Hi, I've bought a fairly heavy oval mirror (33 inches x 27 inches) that I would like to hang above the fireplace but I am not sure what the best way to go about it is. Behind the chimney breast plaster there's a mix of old bricks and mortar as well as a wooden lintel mixed in ( see attached...