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I've just noticed some newly formed bulges in the wallpaper near a doorway on the first floor bedroom of a semi. In the adjoining, room a new bulge appears to have formed in the wallpaper covering the ceiling. I've ripped the wallpaper off, and thought its quite difficult to tell, it...

I've just had the carpet up to reveal this. In some of the other rooms there are old fashioned floorboards. Is it likely that there are floorboards underneath these panels?

I've just had the carpet removed from the stairs, there are some cracks in the stair treads. Is replacing them a specialists' job or would any builder know how to do this?

This one in particular,

If so what do you make of it?

I've been recommended one such boiler for the house. My friends have all got Worcesters.

Just had an electrical safety inspection done of the house. Been told that in various places circuits have low insulation resistance ratings (this is going to be rated as a 2 - serious concern, doesn't need addressing immediately). Also informed that the circuits are generally old...

A Combi I am told will suffice, but you can't run 2 showers, and with 1 shower running, another tap is not going to deliver a great deal. A Megaflo on the other hand will deliver a lot more, but you don't get the benefit on instant hot water. I'd be interested to know the experiences of...

I'm interested in whether its able to deliver a shower plus reasonable flow of water to kitchen taps? I've had some people tell me that with all combis the shower will take almost everything. And yet I've read comments like this too: "Even with a flow rate of 18 on the 42 Cdi the...

The surveyor reckons it needs more down pipes at the back and front. I've had several experienced roofers recommend 1 or 2 more either side. I had a young lad come around ask me quite sensibly have you had any overflow problems? I've only just bought the place, but the answer, to my...

'Mike the boiler' reckons that its a good idea to pay for a boiler system in part of full with a credit card. He says that doing this means two things. Firstly, the fact that the tradesperson takes credit cards shows that their bank considers the tradesperson to be a low risk, and...

I want to get a child's sink removed from the wall. I've posted the job on a few sites and had a few responses. I'm imagining that because of the small scale of the job that the people who have responded are in the hanyman bracket. I just want to make sure they do a decent job of it...

I've just bought a 1930s semi with a flat roofed extension. The surveyor has identified extensive moss on the felt lining to the flat roof, and has said moss needs to be removed, which will take some of the roof with it, which means whole thing needs to be relined. A builder recently came...

I'm looking for a heating engineer to install a new boiler in our house. I understand that the person installing the boiler should be on the gas register. There are plenty of engineers on the gas register close to where I live, but I am unsure as to how I can work out who the best are...

I've just bought a house, which has phone sockets in almost every room. Many look very old and are hanging off the wall, sat on the floor etc. I thought it might be nice to get new ones properly fixed to the wall. What kind of tradesman would do this?

I've just bought a house with carpeted stairs, carpets in good condition. My wife doesn't like carpet, she wants everything laminated/wood. I don't mind the rooms being laminated but I was thinking that carpeted stairs would be safer, less slippy, for young children than laminate/wood...

I had a decorator look at my house today and he reckoned that I wanted at least 4 double sockets in each room. Some only have two. It got me thinking, which is a rare thing, and I was wondering what anybody/everybody else thought about this? I'm just about to get the place decorated so...

I am going to have all the walls in the house repainted. Almost all the walls have been lined and some have been wallpapered. Where the lining is in s poor condition, the job will involve taking off the old lining paper before repainting. The house is 1930s, with a 1980s extension, and...

I want to replace a garage roof, principally because the current roof is made of asbestos. I know next to nothing about building, so wanted to know, if I get an asbsestos removal company in to remove the current roof, will the garage be structurally safe for a while without a roof? Or do I...

I've just bought a house which has a garage out in the back, with an asbestos roof. I'd like to have the roof replaced. I understand that there are special procedures for removing asbestos products, and that I'd probably need to get a specialist in to remove the asbestos roof. However...