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I am to install an air extractor in a bathroom over a shower. The hole needed to insert the unit will leave a 3-4 mm gap most of the way round. There is no information provided by the extractor makers on how to seal this gap to prevent moisture entering the roof from the bathroom. Indeed...

Sorry if this is a repeat post but I added it some time ago and it hadn't appearedWe have find that our house lacks roof ventilation. The roof was re built, slate, some 20 years ago with non-breathing felt. The house is made up of 3 old cottages, 400 to 200 years old. The roof rafters rest...

We lost some of our fencing last week. Rather than keep up the endless battle against increasing weed strengths we are going to replace it with a mixed hedge. We searches come up with a lot of hedging suppliers, but also that its best to get local stock. But I have failed to find any one in our...

We have two chimneys and one fireplace in use. The in use one is central in the ground floor room with equal sized alcoves on each side with the chimney in the centre. The out of use one was clearly in the boardroom, but this is almost identical with equal sized alcoves. In the roof the chimney...

We are hoping to buy a house with stone rubble walls built c1800. One room has a wooden floor and the surveyor has, rightly, said we need to install floor ventilation. My problem is how can this be put in? The only information I have found points to this being very difficult. If I am to deal...