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1900s Victorian semi detached house we want to redo, its not in great shape. want to rewire / replum and sort out the damp. It has visible damp downstairs and damp meter is showing high levels in the wall. It's been skimmed and been papered so think the walls cant breath. No issues outside -...

I had someone fit out a bathroom and I have the fitting as in the pic for the soil pipe. I can't get hold of them and he's left without finishing the pipe connection properly outside. The bottom male connection goes into a female pipe connection which is fine, the connection on the left to the...

Neighbouring house sold and now rented as hmo - never had contact with the neighbour in 5 years. their garden is unkept and overgrown. Silver Birch growing in their garden pushing my fence over Got the ladders out and have cut off the (15m+!) limb which forked over our garden. Odd question i...

Thanks, My plan is to retain the patio area, but as the level is too high relative to the back of the house, go down 12-18 inches (some of which will be filled with the patio sub=base - existing is inadequate) and shift the soil further down the garden where the soil is needed. The level area...

Hi, We have a 60ft garden sloping away from the house. Only a small patio at the top is level. I want to do something to level out 20ft of it near the house and then continue with the slope. The small retaining wall would need to be appox 400mm in height. I had it in mind to use timber...

Thanks, that is a good point. The external water meter / stop cock is on the front which is going to to dug up and reslabbed / new blocking to perfect time to do this

5. How are you measuring the circumference? >> Ok thanks that did make me think, i was using a 3mm string and just did it again with a strip of paper. new measurement is 90mm circumference! wouldn't have though using a thicker string would have made a 5mm difference! so that makes it a 28mm...

it had pinhole leaks in the pipe - there seems to be a lot of links online about it and reasons for it https://sila.com/blog/pinhole-leaks-copper-pipes-repair-or-replace/ if it helps anyone! Irrespective of this, I water to tidy the pipework and do a direct feed from the incoming main to the...

I run an older guest house which I've been refurbishing. The incoming water main is copper, and goes to a stop cock and up around the building. Did there ever used to be a 30mm copper pipe size? the incoming copper pipe the circumference is 95mm which makes the pipe a 30mm pipe (outer...

Any Opinions? Have a couple of rooms that are going to be redone. 2 choices - Replace Rebate door frames with Frames with the fire strip in them, and the new fire doors (frames adjusted to no trimming on sides required) Keep the old frames, New fire doors, trim as required (Need to plain the...

Hi, i have a brick workshed with just a double plug socket, which the previous owner had a plug in light and no light on the ceiling. I wanted to add 2 lights - 1 inside and 1 led flood light, and was going to run a feed from the double socket to a junction box, and all the wires from a 2 gang...