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I'm hoping somebody could give me some advice on the best approach to insulating our bedroom wall. The reason I'm asking is because we're in the process of refurbishing the room - we're basically gutting it and starting it from scratch. All skirting/architraves have been removed and the room is...

We are about to have a lot of replastering done on our house. We moved in a month ago. I'm a bit concerned about some yellow stains on the chimney breast in my daughters bedroom. We are going to have the walls skimmed but I'm worried that the stains will keep coming through. I've tried to...

We have plasterers coming in to do the whole of pur downstairs in a few weeks. We've never used the guys before but they were working down the road so I got a chance to see their work and they gave me a good price. They seem like pretty experienced pros. With this in mind, I've taken the...

Since we moved into our new house, we haven't been able to use the downstairs shower. We knew it wasn't in great condition but only on closer inspection did we realise how bad it was. The grout was cracked and missing all over the place and there was mould and mildew everywhere. Thhe previous...

I was hoping to go and buy a Nest thermostat tomorrow to fit to our heating system (system boiler, Y Plan setup). We don't currently have a room stat. I understand the wiring in the junction box in our airing cupboard and how the system works. The Heat Link box that comes with the Nest...

I'm about to start a little project to build out our existing chimney breast - the TV is already mounted on the chimney breast itself - a stud frame will enclose the chimney breast but leave a recess for the TV mount and a flex outlet for the power connection to the TV. Cables will be hidden...

We've just bought our first home and it currently has no room thermostat. The heating and hot water is controlled solely by an old Drayton LP112 programmer in the airing cupboard and TRVs on all the radiators (apart from the towel rails in the bathroom and downstairs shower room). I'd like to...

Hi, I was wondering if I could get some advice on the best way to prepare our downstairs shower for tiling (my father in law will be tiling for us). The shower room is approx. 2x1m and with the shower at one end. Two walls are external, the third an internal wall between the shower and...

Hello there, first post here. I was hoping to get some advice regarding some apparent damp problems around the front and side or our new home. We had a homebuyers survey which stated that damp meter readings indicated there were high levels of damp along the side of the house., particularly...