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I can't work this out but we seem to have what seems to be damp on an internal wall corner between our living room and dining room. It's no where else in the house so I can't work out why there would be damp here. The wall used to divide two rooms but in the past was knocked through to open up...

I'm looking to replace some switches to a metal plate switch. All was going fine with most of the light switches but I've run into an issue with our bathroom switches that is fan controlled. It seems the earth is in some continuous loop with the wiring of the fan but that means it leaves no...

I've got one of those new plastic inspection chambers for sewage in our garden. It was installed and left sitting quite high from the ground still. Any idea how I go about cutting this down and whether I need to concrete around it after?

Seem to have an issue with our Smeg TR62P oven. The top convection oven has stopped working and the hob igniter for the gas doesn't spark/click any more. Could a broken element cause the igniter to stop working too and if I replaced the element, it'll fix both? The bottom fan oven works fine...

Applied some masonry paint to a wall on my house but finding the paint is too smooth and not matching up to the other walls. Searched up about adding texture by mixing some silica sand in with the paint but I can't seem to find anywhere to buy it other than online for a tiny bag. Is there any...

Currently building a timber frame extension that's sitting on block work. We have DPC that the frame sits on between the block and the frame but started seeing pooling of water coming through. We've got housewrap on and render boards right now but rain water is still getting through... Any...

A builder dropped a hammer that broke something in the neighbours garden by accident. The neighbour is now demanding that the incident should be reported to HSE. Is this reportable?

We've got an extension happening soon which is an extension on top of our existing extension. It won't be connected to our neighbours property but running alongside it, theres actually a slight gap between their existing extension and ours so nothing is built on any adjoining walls. Please see...

I'm a dummy and accidentally cut a bit into some wiring in my house. It caused the fusebox to go off but it turns back on again and works. So basically, I'm wondering, can I just tape it up again with electrical tape? I'm definitely no electrician and would get one in if it's something they'd...

The render at the bottom of my house is pretty rough looking. Would it be okay to hack all the render there (black section) and just have it bare brick? We are in a 1880s house.

Hey all, we found this behind one of our large frames downstairs. At first I thought it was damp but it's all pitted looking, could it be mold instead or something else? It's like half way up the wall and no where else.

So I started digging down the side of my single storey extension to see how deep the foundations are, as we'd like to build on top but I've seem to have come to this point already at around 550mm down. Is that narrow solid strip at the bottom the end of the foundations? It doesn't seem very deep...

Over time I've noticed this lump forming in just one area of our floor... First I thought it would be a leaking pipe but there's no piping under that part and our boiler hasnt experienced any pressure drops. I believe this concrete floor was laid down like 30 years ago. Any idea what it could...

So I had a damp company come and rerender the walls with salt inhibitor mortar sort of stuff (not entirely sure on the proper term) but they rendered straight to the ground. Wouldn't this breach the dpc?

Not exactly sure what thread this belongs in but I pulled back our sofa and seen this... What the hell even happened here? It's like my skirting and disintegrated and dirt particles are coming out from the corner?

I'm getting a bit delusional digging here but could someone enlighten me to how deep I should be going for sub base and concrete base on top for foot traffic only? I'm currently about 150mm and I'm losing the life to live and it's such a small project haha.

I'm looking to lay down a concrete base for my outdoor pathway so I can tile over it. It's approx 210x100cm (let's say 2.1m2) in width and length. I'm going add a subbase but would appreciate it if anyone knows how much cement and ballast I would need to lay over it for the concrete base and...

Anyone know much about slip ratings? I'm looking to tile up our front pathway to our front door and been looking around a load of porcelain tiles for it. I've come across a lot of R9 rated tiles but it seems to be on the lowest side of the ratings e.g https://tinyurl.com/yc5u6z3m Do you think...

Looking to get an outdoor light installed and I've already switched out the switch to a double switch but I'm not actually certain I can just connect the new light to the switch now... Basically the other switch is connected to a two way kitchen light and the other side is not connected to...

Okay so I'm really confused with this metal switch I've just installed. I've installed multiple ones around the house with no issues but this one seems to be giving me a weird vibration sensation when the switch is turned on. The electrical screwdriver is showing that it's got a current running...