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Hello there, Our 1960s prefab garage is getting a bit knackered so we're looking to replace it, either with another prefab or a proper brick one if it's not stupidly expensive. About 10ft wide x 20ft long. Had a few quotes in so far. Had a very nice chap round today to quote for a brick...

Hello We're looking at getting a new sectional concrete garage but I've come across a lot of references to condensation problems online. Does anyone know whether there's a way of avoiding the condensation, or is it something you just have to put up with if you have this type of garage? I should...

Hi In our smallest bedroom we have a built-in cupboard with a doorway measuring 74cm width by 197cm height. At the moment it's got a normal door on it but we want to put a single bed in front of the cupboard if possible. We can only do this if we can find a new door that doesn't eat into the...

Hello, We've traced a leak to the waste pipe on our bath. That's getting sorted tomorrow, but I am concerned about whether there could be damage to the joists below. The floorboards the bath sits on are nice and dry, but there's a cutout in them for the waste pipe. The water has been going into...

Hi One of our bedrooms has a ceiling covered in textured wallpaper. We can't afford to do anything with this but would like to freshen it up, so are planning to put a new coat of white paint on it. I've never painted a wallpapered ceiling before, and wondered if it could cause any problems. Is...

Hi I removed some woodchip wallpaper from the bedroom wall of my 1960s housem only to be greeted by a layer of polystyrene underneath. The polystyrene has also now been scraped off, but there is still some adhesive residue left on the wall (bare plaster). Does anyone have any ideas of how to...

My 1960s house has old uPVC bay windows that I'd like to replace. The main issue is that the survey I had done when buying the house contains the following paragraph: "The various lintels appear finished in brick, with no obvious indication of formal lintel support now required under Part L...

Hi The main bedroom of my 1960s house has a ceiling that's covered in painted woodchip. That alone would be bad enough, but there are also cracks along the plasterboard joints that are so bad they have come through the woodchip. My goal is to end up with a smooth, un-cracked, un-woodchipped...

Hi folks My boyfriend and I are about to buy our first house, and are hoping to put in a new bathroom straight after moving in (there's currently just a wet room). So in researching baths we came across Carronite ones, which I'd got my heart set on. But on visiting a local shop we learnt we...