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Hi all, I have a 1895 built terrace. On the internal wall between the living room and dining room (highlighted yellow), I have damp, cold, almost wet feeling patch along the middle of the wall, around 4ft up, just above the dado rail - I have tried drying it out and no luck, the other...

I’ve recently moved in my house and changed 3 switches. They all control the same landing light, 2 switches on the landing and 1 in the hall. Since installing the new switches, I have to turn them on by the switch in the hall, and then I can turn the light on and off from the 2 landing...

Hi, I’m looking to paint the marble / marble effect parts of my fireplace / hearth. What would be the best type of paint / prep. Looking it paint it black. Thanks,

I have a typical Victorian terrace, lay out as below - I'm hoping to remove my kitchen door and brick it up, to gain space back in my kitchen for units. The problem I have is my car parking is at the rear and I access the house this way 90% of the time. I was hoping to fit french doors in the...

I have a 2 bed Victorian terrace, with the floor plan below I had an arched doorway going from the dining room into the kitchen. I started to remove this to square it back off, and found a wooden lintel that’s barely resting on anything I’m thinking of now opening this up further like...

I’ve had my old wooden framed front door replaced with a new composite one. From the outside it has a stone lintel. When the fitter removed the old wood frame, there was a soldier course above that fell down. He then fitted the new frame and door. He said the solider course was just an...

Hi all, I have an issue with damp in my kitchen. The wall is an external wall, and looks wet. It has an airbrick that’s been added later, which is just in the outer leaf. I’m thinking of removing this airbrick as I don’t believe I need to vent the cavity? And also I’m thinking of adding a...

Hi, I have an Accenta Gen4 with LCD keypad. Installed it myself about 5 years ago, been fine until the last 6 months, now it seems the clock is running slow, over a week the time drifts by about an hour and I have to keep setting it again. Anyone seen this before?

I had a few loose tiles in the shower so decided to remove them, I’ve now taken quite a lot off and all the plaster is damp and soggy. Should I remove, re-plaster, use a tanking kit and re tile? Or instead could I mount waterproof back board onto the brick work and tile straight onto it? Or...

Hi all, I've read a few similar threads to the problem I have but having tried other solutions I'm stuck. We have a 1 wall in a room that we painted when we moved into our house. All the paint went on OK and was fine for around a month, then 1 wall (the only external wall in that room) the...

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice. I want to install a ground anchor in my shed, its sat on a concrete base, but my shed floor is around 2 inches from the concrete base. I'm going to cut out a square in the floor, then I was going to box it off and fill with more concrete, then drill through...

Hi all, I’ve read lots of conflicting information so I’m not sure what to do with my new flower beds. They’ve been built on my old lawn with a concrete footing and are now in between my new lawn and patio. I will be having them rendered. The lawn at the rear of the flower bed is about 15cm...

Hi all, The house we moved into has a bathroom ceiling inline extractor fan with round flexible ducting, it has an adaptor to make it brick sized then is pushed up against an air brick in the loft. I assume this is OK as all the other air bricks has been covered over with some sort of silicone...

Hi all, I'm after some advice on painting some exterior wood on my house. It's an arch and lintel at the front of the house and a few window frames at the back. They are already white, looks like gloss but are flaking and cracking. I've never done a job like this before, so I'm unsure on...

Hi, Looking for some advice on staining my side of a vertical overlap fence. I want to do it a different colour to what it originally was and what my neighbours on both sides have. Will this cause me a problem? I assume as its vertical overlap and not horizontal then it shouldn't drip through?

Hi, When we bought our house the tap in the bathroom made quite a loud noise when turned on, both hot and cold, kind of screeching / vibrating. We replaced the tap and still have the same problem. I installed a PRV (this one) after the stop tap and it did fix the issue with the taps but it...

Hi all, I am looking to paint a previously varnished fireplace surround - Its removed from the wall so quite easy to work on. I think I need to sand it, prime it, sand it, undercoat it, sand it paint it, sand it, paint it. Is that correct? I am unsure on what type of primer and which...

Hi all, Lurk and read a lot on here but only signed up today. I am looking to replace my current Siemens RWB27 programmer and Robus thermostat with a Hive v2. I have a Greenstar 30si boiler. They both appear to have the same back plate so I'm hoping to just slot the Hive onto the existing...