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Hi, I’m currently replacing all of my windows (with BC sign off). So far all of my downstairs windows have had stone lintels on the inner leaf and angle iron on the outer leaf, but I’m now doing the landing and bathroom windows which go all the way up to ceiling height and I’ve found that these...

Hi, I’m wanting to change the external appearance of my house as I don’t like the 1960’s cream bricks so I was hoping to render/cedar clad the front and add an additional window. I’m not in a conservation area and it’s not listed (no surprise there). Reading the guidance on my local authority...

I’m having a bit of trouble getting an idea of patio labour costs. I’ve done all the ground work for our patio including digging out and compacting 200mm of hardcore and I’m buying the 900x600 porcelain slabs next week. The total area is about 80 square metres and there’s a path approx 10 square...

I’ve had a nightmare with a surface water drain that crosses a neighbouring property. It kept blocking so I dug out the cracked gully and about 2m of clay pipe and found it was still blocked for several metres into the neighbouring property (it passes directly under their conifer tree). When I...

Hi, I laid my first GRP roof a couple of years ago and I have learnt a few lessons (including not to attempt it on the hottest day of the year in blistering heat ). The main problem I had was where the new GRP roof meets the felt garage roof. It delaminated after about 6 months and let water in...

TLDR version - I've got a leak rate of 0.4 bar/hour at the balanced supplies but only when the system is lined out fully with the mains cold valve closed. If I test each system individually no leak is found. Long version - I've recently had a full re-plumb about a year ago when we bought our...

Hi, wondered if anyone could help me. I’ve had a quote from a kitchen supplier and one of the measurements was tight, but they checked my design and added in an 18mm end panel stating that it was necessary to allow the angled corner cupboard door to open properly. This puts the run of units...

Hi, It’s not like me but I jumped into having a wood burning stove fitted without first doing much research. I was quite naive in thinking I could just bang a wooden lintel in and I had my builder do this and repoint the brickwork before getting quotes from 2 companies for a log burner supplied...

Due to having a flaky builder that's been very poor with advising me on my extension and only attended 3 days in the last 8 weeks, I've had to crack on and do the roof myself. I've finished the joinery and I intended to get the roof felted to match the garage roof which it connects to, however...

I'm in the process of building a 5m x 4m extenstion with cold deck flat roof and 3m x 2m roof lantern. It's occured to me today that many of the roof timbers between the roof lantern and the adjoining wall of the house will not be ventillated and the other timbers will only be ventillated from...

Hi, I bought a house to renovate and noticed that the toilet has been moved from the outside wall to an internal wall. I pulled up the bathroom floor to find that the toilet waste had been re-routed through 2 joists! 125mm has been removed from the 150mm joists, leaving just an inch!!! The...

We're looking at purchasing a house, but there's a 3mm (ish) crack that runs diagonally approx 10ft along the mortar line at the side of the house from towards the middle down to about 4ft up near the front of the house. One of the bricks along this step is cracked down the middle and it looks...

Hi, I need to upgrade my 15mm Cold Water Mains pipework to 22mm. Under my sink where the stopcock is, it goes from the blue 25mm pipe (out of the concrete floor) through a 15mm stopcock and straight onto 15mm pipework. 2 Questions - 1) Do I need to replace the stopcock? With it being 15mm...

Hi, I've been looking at options for mains pressure hot water in our house, as the vented hot water tank we have currently is not up to the job to run 2 bathrooms / kitchen, utility, cloak toilet etc. I had a plumber give our system a once over today to see how feasible it is to upgrade, and...

Hi, We're having a few problems with low hot water pressure and shortly I'll be renovating both bathrooms and hopefully swapping the electric showers for mixer showers. Here's a breakdown of the current installation: 4 Bedroom House - 2 Showers, 1 Bath, 6 sinks total. Open Vented Hot...