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Any advice for what I should do next when dealing with a suspicious builder who tried to take a 50% deposit (£1800) from my elderly mother for repointing work to a chimney in cash before starting work? She was immediately quoted a price of £3,700 and was asked for a 50% deposit and she initially...

I have this issue where the flush pipe connecter which enables the join with the flush pipe (32mm) to the toilet to be sealed has worn out. The flush pipe is in two sections joined by a coupler but I noticed the flush pipe input hole into the toilet is higher than the flush pipe that comes from...

I have been looking on the structural calculations for a timber frame first floor extension that will have hung tiles on all external walls. Is there something I should be able to see that would tell me the load that would be put on the concrete trench foundation and confirm the foundations are...

When the depth of a building's foundation is measured to ensure a first floor extension can be built on is the brick that sits on the footing included or the concrete footing just measured? I always assumed it was just the concrete footing? The type of soil we have is reasonably thick clay and...

I am looking at what options I have for adding a second storey to an existing ground floor extension (see picture below) that used to be a single detached garage built in 1989. The first thought I had initially was that the roof would come off and anything else that would enable the brickwork...

About 4 years ago I had a single detached garage changed to be a single storey side extension, see photos below for before and after. I now wish to extend above to make a second storey so that we can add two additional rooms - extra bedroom and a study as working from home is going to become...

About 4 years ago we had a single side extension that had the existing single detached garage joined to the main property as show in the attached picture. A second picture also shows the rear of the property. On the council planning pages it says "To avoid the terracing effect that...

Not sure how easy or difficult this would be but in order to get around the issue of the bathroom light not being switched off (using a pull cord) when someone finishes using the bathroom I am exploring the idea of fitting a motion sensor in place of the pull cord. The bathroom has 3 LED...

I had some partial repointing done for a few bricks and whilst the new mortar looks fine the colour is slightly different. Is there something that can be done to change the colour of the mortar to match the surrounding mortar colour to blend in?

I will be replacing two external bricks this weekend to fill in an old tumble dryer vent and it will likely to be raining. Although the job will be fairly quick would it be a good idea to cover the new bricks once they and the mortar have been inserted? Any other things I need to be aware of?

Does anyone have any ideas how to get the black tar like substance as shown in the picture attached where an extension used to be attached to our house before, as the previous owner put it, took itself down? Any ideas as to how I can remove it just to make things look a little nicer as it...

Hi all, Cracks appeared about 5 months ago on the external side of a new front wall of my 18 month old extension. The wall also incorporates a uPVC window as shown below (picture was taken just below extension completion): The extension is actually a garage conversion as well for a single...