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Hi, I'm after a bit of advice please. I had my hob extractor fitted and then had it tiled shortly afterwards. Unfortunately the tiler has left an 8mm gap between the tiles and extractor as it isn't possible to cut such a small sliver and wasn't feasible to start with a cut tile due to the...

Hi, Basically, I’m trying to add a dado rail that runs parallel to the staircase. The bit I’m stuck on, is how to cut the two parts that meet in the corner. Hopefully the photo will make sense, but going up the stairs, the incline is 118 degrees into the corner, and then 72 degrees out. The...

Apologies if this isn't the correct forum I need to hang a glass shower screen onto an internal wall made of stramit board, overboarded with what looks like hardie board. The wall will be tiled. For those not aware what stramit is, it's basically really compressed straw, with paper facing...

I’ve been renovating a small (3x3m) extension and have noticed damp patches on the concrete floor in the two corners furthest away from the house. They only appear during or after rain, and dry up afterwards. The adjacent plaster is dry, although the boards don’t touch the block work due to dot...

Backround I bought my 2 bed house in December 2016 and have completely modernised the whole house - new carpets, radiators, kitchen floor, worktops. Then it came to the conservatory which I had painted - the room basically went down to outside temperature in the winter. It had a poly carb roof...

Hi, i recently had new doors and windows fitted to an old lean to extension/conservatory. As part of the refurb, I've just stripped all the external render and came across what I feel to be excessive gaps between the frames and clockwork. The gaps are filled with expanding foam and had been...

Hi, I've inherited a small lean too conservatory that I'm looking to make more thermally efficient. I'm struggling to work out what it's walls are actually made from, the external face is rendered. It's at least 20 years old I'm told I've attached two photos, inside and out. Internally, from...

Hi, I'm looking into making my lean too 'conservatory' more energy efficient i.e above outside temperature, it currently has a drafty polycarbonate roof. I'm planning on installing some celotex boards under the roof and then plasterboarding. The problem is then that it would be a lot darker in...