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Hi, We have a Victorian house with mostly original sash windows and some newer double glazed ones. The house faces south and those windows get a real hammering - hot in the summer and very wet in the winter. The sills in particular seem to need constant TLC. They are currently high gloss white...

Hi, Hoping there are some building regs experts on here... We have a Victorian house that is built into the hillside and has a lower ground floor. This is accessed by a staircase from the main hallway on the ground floor. There are several rooms on this floor, and the lower ground floor has a...

Hi, Hope somebody can help me. We live in a tall victorian house. Shower pressure has been poor for some time, and so we had a large plumbing company round who suggested changing our gravity-fed water system for an unvented cylinder. I showed them our incoming supply pipe, which was 15mm, but...

Hi all, We have a tall Victorian house. Toilet on top floor (4 floors above mains inlet) has always been a bit dodgy but never like this. We don't use it very often so not sure when issue started - probably in last few weeks. Recently had an unvented cylinder put in basement and they balanced...

Dear all Grateful for any advice you can offer. I'm not sure if I'm overtthinking this! We have a south facing internally opening back door which has been causing problems since we moved in a few years ago. I think it is an original Victorian door, set in a rebated frame. I think the currebt...

Dear all, I would be grateful for any advice you can offer. We recently moved into a house with a wired burglar alarm. From old receipts etc I can see that it is at least 20 years old, but nonetheless was (until recently) in full working order and has an extensive number of sensors. It appears...