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Hi My 1970 house has hairline cracks in most of the ceilings, generally central along the plasterboard join. I tried filling one - see first photo but a few months later the crack reappeared. These cracks are less than 1mm wide and in most areas not possible to insert a stanley blade. Would...

I built a conservatory a little over a year ago. The Eurocell section UPVC roof and sides were supplied to me by a company in Coventry. It is South facing and meaures around 9 x 4 metres. The problem is the west facing side which has not been sufficiently reinforced to withstand strong...

Please see photo of my 1970 cut timber roof. The cross braces sit on top of the vertical supports but are not fixed to it - they are nailed at each end to rafters. The rafters are nailed to the vertical supports but those supports are not laterally braced. The flooring joists appear to run the...

Hi I have moved a door further out in the wall, leaving a bit of a problem behind. The photo below shows the reveal which is about nine inches wide. I want to finish it in plaster with a plain corner if possible. Hopefully you can see the old plain cornered reveal followed by the gap where the...

The time has come to replace a troublesome section of pitch fibre sewerage pipe installed in 1970. It's about 25 metres long and runs between two inspection hatches. Only serves my property so I have to deal with it! It seems that the standard replacement is brown PVC 110mm drainage pipe...

Hi I would appreciate advice regarding taking rainwater to soakaway. It's a 35 square metre roof with gutter exit to 70mm round downpipe. There is a large soakaway pit about 7 metre from the conservatory, dug 1 metre down, filled with rubble, topped with a membrane and about 6 inches of...

I have a newly built underground space that seeps damp with heavy rain. There are a couple of area where something with more filling capacity/body than tanking is required. How do I make a good waterproof cement mixture?

Hi I have built a conservatory. There is a large underground storage area up to 4 feet deep underneath the conservatory bison beam floor. This was built last summer with a concrete infilled double skin block wall built on a foundation. The floor is concrete on top of a membrane which...

Hi Slightly outside the remit of this forum section but as near as I could find - hopefully someone can advise. I recently purchased the UPVC, glass, doors, roof, etc for a conservatory from a company on a supply only basis. Intended to get this fitted myself but eventually used one of...

Hi I have a leak where the two part concrete cill on one of my windows joins in the middle. There is a small gap, less than one eighth of an inch. It has been siliconed but the rule of depth not exceeding width broken so the seal has failed. Water is going through the cill into the...

Hi I am a bit worried about the roof joint that has been made between my new lean to conservatory and house. The conservatory is large(9m wide x 4m deep), so if there is a problem, the glass roof would need to be removed. Builder removed render off the render/block wall and fixed lead in...