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My shower unit is leaking small amounts of water at both bottom corners next to the tiled walls on the outside of the unit. It's only really noticeable if you touch the grout at the bottom with tissue after use and it is damp, but not causing water to spill on the floor or anything. I think it...

I had a fence put in our back garden with a pretty heavy gate, which has most/all of its weight supported by a single fence post. I just noticed the post is starting to split. Is there anything I can do to fix and/or better support this? I'm thinking it's not going to support the gate much...

Does anyone know if you need to fit ridge union fittings to a dry ridge roof system? We had half of our roof refitted recently (the original part of the house which was 40 years old) and they used ridge union fittings. But the extension part of the house, its roof was fitted 15 years ago and...

We just had our roof completely renewed from the boarding outwards, including re-tiling with marley roman roof tiles. I noticed, especially in the valleys, some big gaps between tiles not resting on the grove of the adjacent tile. You'll see on the photos a couple of these tiles where I can put...

Just had a new window sill installed. It doesn't look great (see photos): - Not cut clean or straight at right hand ride - Mortar got cracks in it already - other mortar looks messy Do you think it's reasonable for me to complain about these issues to the builder? If so, what should I ask...

Hello, We've got a damaged brick at the corner of our house, which was recently made worse when my 5 year old started picking at it with a stick! Photo attached. I can't imagine we'll be able to get a builder interested in fixing it as it's not worth their time, but I know a very good...

Hello, I was just wondering how much you would expect to pay for someone to plant a 13m hedge (beech or leylandii). It will require some new soil to be used as its at the corner of our house near the road. Prices including bare bulb hedges, soil and labour. Basically all in cost. Just...

Hello, We just had some brick work done to fill a small hole left by an old gas extractor fan. Should I be worried that within 12 hours of this being done the temperature is forecast to get as low as - 1 to - 2C? It's also forecast to get as low as - 3C within 24 hours. Could this cause any...

I've noticed some fairly big gaps in the silicone above a couple of our external windows. I was just wondering if we might be better trying to use something other than silicone to cover this? I'm thinking if we re-silicone, due to the size of gaps if might just break away again. See attached...

We're looking to replace our mortar roof ridge with a dry ridge, which is just under 9m in length (one single horizontal ridge only). Current ridge is leaking again due toortar breaking away. Been quoted prices from £800 - £1300 depending on if we want to replace the top row roof tiles either...

Hello, I noticed some pretty large gaps in our roof in one of the roof tiles, which was recently repaired a couple of years ago. Please see photo. I was considering getting a roofer out to fix it but then I'm thinking it might be possible for me to do this myself as the tiles look fine, it's...

We've recently found patches of mould on the living room wall. One patch low down in particular (in photo). But mostly isolated spots across just the one section of wall (the one with the outside wall). There's also some marks around the mains socket, which doesn't look like mould, but possibly...

Hello, This heavy duty wooden door has taken some damage from an over door hook. I'm hoping to tidy it up so it doesn't look as bad and was thinking some kind of tape secured across the length of the top of the door (top 2cm or so) might be the best solution with minimal effort required...

Managed to get a small hole in the kitchen sink (see photo), which is leaking underneath. Unfortunately the sink can't be easily replaced as it's fully integrated within a granite worktop. Just wondering what's the best way to repair this? Would applying plumbers mait underneath the hole keep...

Hello, I previously thought I had a problem with leaking ventilation ducting from an extractor fan vent in the loft caused by steam from the shower fan and/or a leak in the roof. This originally started as a nail had pierced the flexible ducting used to connect the 2 pipes in the loft and...

Just had a new fence installed with some strange blue stains. Any ideas what these might be and if they are a concern and possibly need fixed or treated? We're being charged £650 in total (labour and materials) for this double sided fence. Just wondering if this is a fair price? Any advice...

Hoping for some advice about something I just noticed on a few of our radiators. Some of the pipes have what appears to be oxidisation (I'm guessing based on the turquoise colour) although there are no obvious leaks. The turquoise residue flakes off when touched but can't be totally cleaned...

I've had a constant build up of water in our extractor fan ducting in the loft. This has been made worse by a tear in the ducting causing a leak to spread. There doesn't appear to be water dripping inside the loft from the outer edge of the pipe so I think the seal is secure holding the pipe in...

I have just power washed our large monoblock driveway front and back removing all the sand and weeds etc. It's looking really good but I've now got a dilemma about how/when to fill the gaps between the bricks. Is it best to wait 6 -7 months (around next March/April time) before filling it when...

Hello I was looking to fit philips hue ambience white E27 bulbs to my existing E27 kitchen down light fittings which are recessed. There are 10 in total. However the standard advice from philips seems to be that these bulbs should not be used in "closed" fixtures. The problem is that they...