Search results

We're wanting to add an additional ceiling light in the dining room. When changing the light switches in the hall to a style we preferred the electrician discovered that the power for the dining room light switch was s feed through from the hall light switch. Does this affect us having a second...

We've just had house rendered - Parex. Old render removed and fresh start including base coats and meshing. It's all been done to a plastic bead. Window and door reveals. The house is hip height brick with a protruding brick line which it was previously rendered to. The new render sits on a...

Using this lockdown time to research. 1930 house with patched sand cement render from waist height. We are intending to strip all the render and replace. It has a Dutch style roof with a pillar support on one corner and there is a crack above that area. We've had some exploration and the timber...

Hi folks I've searched Screwfix plumbing pages and could do with some help with parts. I'm changing the taps on the tiny downstairs wash basin. The new taps don't quite line up with the old ones. HOWEVER- the elbow tap connectors are soldered on at the point they come through the wall no spare...

Hello friends We have a 30,s Dutch barn style house with original clay Rosemary roof tiles. We want a velux to go in the back, the front leaks and a replacement roof will mean we can get insulation in the hip areas which aren't accessible from the loft. Most of our neighbours have new roofs and...

Hi started adding extension to lamp flex. New purchase from John Lewis it has clear 3 core flex for metal bayonet fitting. Unfortunately set off gung-ho and took off plug only then realised not the usual coloured core. One core has blue thread - neutral? Another either dark green or black...

Upstairs I have a lot of damaged boards when prev folk have had plumbing or elecs done. The new boards they put in to replace some have shrunk and left huge gaps. So what is the consensus. Should I replace the damaged areas with ply which won't shrink or with new boards which prob will. It will...

Another damp puzzle. Can anyone help solve mystery of intermittent damp on dining room walls. 1930 house, original bitumen damp course in walls and concrete floor slab with parquet laid in bitumen on the floor. Last few days I sealed myself in the room with sander and set about the floor. 8 hrs...

One job to another. I have unearthed the original pine herringbone parquet in my 1930 house. The previous owner had covered it in hardboard sheets nailed all over at 6" spacings with underlay and fitted carpet on top. I've read all the parquet pages on this site. I plan to sand and use the...

In the better weather I will be replacing the odd spalled bricks below dpc with engineers. Don't want this work to put the existing bricks which are ok at risk of becoming spalled. Any hints or tips?

Recently moved into 1930 house. Surveyor indicated areas of damp. There are some visible patches at base of internal walls. They've not got worse in this very wet winter. No mould. I've dry scrapped off a sample of paper, the glue was sticky. The now bare plaster wall now seems fine and dry...

My first post on this great site so please be gentle. Recently moved into 1930 house with original bitumen DPC. A lot of the brick work below DPC is spalled. The paving round the house is in good order, but it's butted up to the house walls (below DPC). Should we remove some paving to let the...