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Morning all I need to plasterboard my kitchen however I’m really tight on space as I’ve already ordered the kitchen, I’ve got about 30mm to play with from left to right so I’m planning on using 9mm boards, I’ve been told I might get a tighter fit using expanding foam, does anyone have any views...

Hi all we ordered our kitchen back in December when there was a big sale on, having taken the measurements before we started to rip out the old kitchen and take walls out, (I know that was a mistake now!). Having removed a wall and installed an RSJ I didn’t take into account the plasterboard...

Morning all we’ve recently moved into a property with a porch on the front, unfortunately it looks like it had had movement over the years and pulled away from the main house, obviously whoever built it didn’t tie it into the property and the mortar between the house and porch had all cracked...

Hi all I’m removing an internal supporting brick wall. on one side I’m leaving a 600mm return for the RSJ to sit on and the other side I’ve got to build a 600mm return as it’s currently a doorway, I can use 7.3N blocks but can I use the 100mm ones? ….. the original bricks are 110mm wide, it’s...

Morning all, we’ve recently purchased a house in need of renovation, we’ve been looking at ideas for the shower room and came across this picture in a catalog, is it a good/bad idea to fully enclose a shower as seen in the picture (boxed in above the glass), if a good extractor fan is fitted...

Hi all I'm having the whole house plastered, they've so far done 2 walls and a ceiling, but on all the internal corners they have run a bead of cork, is this normal practice nowdays or am i missing something? Thanks for your help.

Hi all Hope you can help, I've got the builders in to remove the chimney stack and breast that run through 2 bedrooms and 2 downstairs rooms, they've completed the removal and are now in the process of studding the walls where the breasts were in preperation for plaster board, however they have...

20190102_171723 by 19Mark78 posted 2 Jan 2019 at 5:39 PM Advice wanted please... I've Recently purchased a house in need of a bit of work, today I went in search of the mains water stopcock as I'm having a new kitchen, the photo is what i found, it's absolutely soaking wet, the tap is dripping...