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Door alignment might not be too important - the aim is to fit sliding doors (if I can take care of the sloping floor issue) and the overlapping nature should mean the wardrobe opening alignment will be obscured. Are there any other factors to consider that could be impacted by not fixing the...

To give a clearer idea, this is how they're sitting now, without propping anything up.

Novice question here... The floor in the room I'm putting up a wardrobe is not level - it's 8mm lower over 1m width. How important is it to prop up one side of the wardrobe to make the sides level? What kind of tolerance is acceptable? If I go beyond a certain amount I can imagine there'll be...

Hi Woody. I understand that. I'm not planning to open up any spaces to "open plan" or change use of any spaces. Our house is a 1960s townhouse which (like most 1960s builds) does not meet today's building regulations. Much of the changes - like filling in the stair risers and constructing a...

I've recently moved into a house that I'm intending to have work done to. I'm trying to understand if any of the possible work I may do requires building control approval. I'm looking to: Knock-through a non-structural wall dividing a box room from the master bedroom (we've engaged a structural...

Thanks Woody. We haven't decided on a builder yet. We originally asked for estimates to renovate across the house, but what we got back proposed quite different approaches and were way over our budget (quotes were from £55k to £105k!). We decided to scale-back the scope of our work, to focus on...

I'm arranging structural calculations and building regs drawings for an internal garage conversion (including knocking through an internal structural wall to provide an open plan area). I've contacted several structural engineers and I'm getting drastically different estimates. The lowest is...

My girlfriend and I have had an offer accepted on a 3 bed 1960s terraced house in outer London that we'd like to renovate before we move in. There are several jobs that will need doing and I'm trying to work out the pros and cons of hiring individual trades directly vs having a single...