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Hello. Total amateur looking for a little advice if you will... We want to plant a couple of climbers either side of our front door. We have a Victorian terraced house with a cellar. Took a slab up next to the bay window to find big piece of concrete beneath it, I'm not sure how deep it is but...

Can anyone offer a little advice here please? We have two damp patches on external walls in our concrete rendered Victorian terrace, both are below windows and there is visible cracking in the render where the windows join etc. My question is, if I chip the render away in these areas (or...

Hi guys, just a little question, if you don't mind? We're having a kitchen put in at the moment. I've got a range cooker with an induction hob and wooden (rubberwood) worktops. I noticed you can get end panels for when the worktop runs right up to the edge of the cooker top, as ours will, but...

Yeh I think I definitely underestimated how far along they moved the door (I just asked them to make room for the fridge). In actual fact the lintel goes only about half way over the new door. I think that's why it looks scary. Sorry!

Thank you very much for illustrating that for me - I understand! So how far would the door have to move along under the lintel for it to be deemed not ideal?

The jobs not done, I told them to stop. The frames not fixed in properly and it hasn't been plastered. It's wierd because everyone I've spoken to IRL reckons there should be a lintel in there. I don't know what to do :|

Thanks Tony. It's probably obvious that I have little idea about building works. I think I'd rather get the regs as we've just bought this place and the solicitor was going mad asking for certificates for all kinds of stuff that the seller didn't have so don't want that to be us when we come to...

Hi everyone wondering if somebody could please offer some advice? I'm sorry, this is going to be a rambler... A guy who is fitting our kitchen got another guy to come in and move a doorway for us approximately eight inches. It's in a single storey extension built onto the back of our...