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We recently moved into an old Yorkshire stone terraced house. The window in the kitchen has been replaced with a wider one at some point over the last 30 years, with the opening widened and a concrete lintel installed. I recently noticed a vertical crack in the centre of the lintel, which seems...

I have an oval shower rail to attach to the ceiling and I'm not sure of the best fixing method. I've been up into the loft and added noggins where the brackets will go to ensure it's attached to something solid. The ceiling looks to have been boarded twice over the original lath and plaster, so...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well. I'm in the process off ripping out the bathroom and replacing everything in our old terraced house. On the exterior wall, the old grey backing plaster came off with the tiles, so I've taken that wall back to brick and plan to board with cement tile backers...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well. I'm in the process off ripping out the bathroom and replacing everything in our old terraced house. On the exterior wall, the old grey backing plaster came off with the tiles, so I've taken that wall back to brick and plan to board with cement tile backers...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well. We're having the bathroom ceiling boarded and skimmed next week but want to get the wiring sorted for an extractor fan to be fitted. The light fitting is accessible from the loft, but the switch is under some boarding that's a bit of a pain to be lifted. Is...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well. We're hoping to open up a wall on the upstairs landing of our house, which is a small 1985 terrace cottage. The supporting wall runs up the centre of the house, with the staircase running alongside it, which I think is quite typical of terraces from that era...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well. We're hoping to open up the under stairs pantry doorway in our 1895 terrace house to accommodate a fridge, but are unsure if the timber wall is load-bearing. We actually had it boarded and plastered when we moved in, so I can't upload a picture, but the...

We recently moved into an old terraced house (c. 1895) with a small front yard. We've just pruned back a large rosebush to find that the guttering downpipe has rusted away and separated from the section that goes underground. I had actually noticed a bit of rainwater getting in to the crawlspace...

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a decent low-cost compact circular saw. It'll mainly be used for doing long straight cuts in wood - fencing, doors, shelving etc. - but needs to be compact enough to store in a cupboard. I've seen a few on Amazon with mixed reviews - anyone had...

Hi, hope you're all good. We've recently moved into an old house with a terrible bathroom, which we're hoping to get sorted ASAP. The entire room is covered in horrendous blue and pink tiles, with a bizarre Greek bathing scene embossed on every other tile. I started hacking off a few tiles in...

For the past few days the pipework in our house seems to be constantly omitting a running water sound. The sound is loudest by the stop tap in the kitchen and can be heard under the kitchen sink, all the way up to the bathroom upstairs. I thought it was just the toilet slowly refilling, but the...

My wife recently bought a small sideboard to go in the living room alcove, however the top overhangs on each side, meaning it's about 10mm too wide for the gap (uneven walls don't help either). Given that it's unlikely to be made of solid wood, how would I best go about trimming down the top to...

We've just moved into a Victorian terrace with a small yard to the rear. I'm looking to increase the height of the wall from 3ft to about 5ft using trellis, to give some privacy and prevent our dog from reaching next door, without blocking too much sunlight. The wall is the original from when...

We're in the process of doing up our first house and are looking at changing from an electric shower to a mixer shower, which would be fed from the combi boiler in the kitchen downstairs. We recently had the house rewired and the shower is now completely disconnected from the electricity supply...

Hi, New here so apologies if this is in the wrong place. We've just bought our first house and had the place fully rewired, which has left a lot of ugly chasing up the walls in every room. It's an old Victorian terrace and the plaster is mostly original or really old, so it's inevitably caused...

Hi, hope you're all good. Some friends and I are looking to lease an industrial unit for various hobby purposes. The unit is adjacent to a large storage area which is in continuous use, however we need to create a corridor that passes along both units by building a wall to make our unit secure...