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Hi all, Very frustrated at present. We had our chimney removed by a builder who used completely new tiles to repair the roof and stuck out like a sore thumb (right hand side). Have now paid to have someone else come and replace with better matching tiles (left hand side). He made a big fuss...

Hi all, we have recently had cladding taken off the front wall of the house. We have been left with this strange pattern of mortar. What you see on the pic is repeated 4 times horizontally. It's clear this has been repointed at some point but why only these bricks? More importantly does anyone...

Hi all, Wondering what the best way is to repair this crack in the rendered garden wall. Is there a filler we can use that can be painted over?

Hi all! Hoping someone can help. We've had a slab chip in the garden and I am hoping I can find a replacement. Please see pictures. Thanks in advance!

Hi all, Is there any way to take off the glass shade of this pendant? Thanks

Hi all, There has been some damage to our porch roof which soe tiles breakin near the top. Is this something we could fix ourselves? Thanks!

Hi, Please can someone help? I wanted to remove 2 small walls shown in the picture. One of them has a doorway (wall A) and the other (wall B) is joined to a load bearing wall at 90degrees. I only want to remove the part of wall B that is on the left and leave the door way. In the attic, wall A...

Hi, can someone advise? We would like to replace a radiator on this small wall that we are studding out using the old radiator pipes (where the plastic loop is shown). The old pipes are currently coming from the old extension where they are laid in screed. Along with the two CH pipes (2nd and...

Hi all, Hope someone here can help. We previously had cladding on our house which we have gotten rid off. However, even though we used muriatic acid there are still mortar stains in the texture. We used Liquidweather today and that only slightly helped. Can anyone advise what we can do? As we...

Hi all, We have a Worcester Bosch Greenstar Ri boiler. For the past few weeks we have had no hot water from the taps. We have been doing a lot of ad hoc plumbing work like connecting new radiators, backfilling the systems, and at one point we connected the hot water taps upstairs to the cold...

Hi, we have a wall separating our bathroom and toilet which we'd like to remove. However by doing so I'm afraid about losing support for the wall which has the doors. The house is 1950s and although the wall with the doors seems to be load bearing I can't see a lintel above the doors. I'm...

Hi all! Please excuse the bad drawing, but I've tried to illustrate the various pipes on 3 walls in our dining room which used to be the old kitchen in a house we've bought. The walls were all previously plaster board which we've ripped out. There are two radiators. The left one has pipes coming...

Hi! We recently set about removing the stone cladding on our house and this has revealed textured brick which has now been chipped in a few places and generally looks cementy and too red. We were planning the below: 1. Remove the larger mortar patches with hammer and chisel 2. Use muriatic acid...

Hi all, we have moved into a 1950s house and want to square off an archway. However I can't work out how it's constructed. Having exposed the plaster as best as I can I can see a rounded tile (?) structure that's then been shallowed out giving a smaller archway. The bit in between that and the...

Hi all, We are currently in the process of buying a house that has an indemnity policy for planning permission and building regulations for the front porch and also the extension. However, we are now also considering internal walls that we want to knock down such as that containing the airing...

Hello, we're in the process of buying a house built circa 1958 that needs a bit of work. Ideally we would be able to replace the fuse box with a new one without a rewire. An extension was added in 86 but the vendor being quite old doesn't have any information on the wiring within the extension...