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Hi all a few years ago we had plans drawn up for a new 3m x 3m rear extension to replace an existing conservatory. We got planning permission and a build over agreement all agreed but unfortunately the price of just the groundworks to relocate the drain/ manhole that is currently in the...

Hi all, over the past few weeks we've noticed what appears to be large damp looking patch appearing in the middle of the wall in our living room. After having a look today the area highlighted is very cold to touch compared to the surrounding area and also the paint as you can see can easily be...

Hi all I'm after some advice. My current alpha boiler has a wireless thermostat connected nothing fancy just one where you can set the on off time for heating etc etc. This has now broken due to me dropping it and the inlaws have give me a hive thermostat that they never had fitted to there...

Hope someone can help we've had a leak for probably the last 3 years and still haven't found out where it's coming from. It doesn't leak all the time only under very heavy rain and wind, even then its only a drip. However its driving me mad. I've attached a picture and stuck a bit of cable under...

Hi I'm after a bit if advice. When I was up in the loft the other day I noticed that the insulation was soaking wet under the boiler flue. After a bit of looking around I noticed that there was was water dripping from the bend on the flue where there is a connection. Could anyone tell me the...

Hi all I'm after a bit of advice. My stairs have always creaked since we bought the house 3 years ago however over the past few months I've noticed that they have got worse. Today I've have had a look under the stairs and have noticed that most of the wide winders have got splits in them as...

Hi all I'm after a bit of advice with regards to our proposed new extension. We have had planing permission and building regs sign off for a single story extension. I've also had approval from southwest water with regards to removing the manhole that is 1.6m deep and approx 1m wide and moving it...

Hi all, I was up in the loft adding more insulation and i noticed the leak pictured bellow. Today I've been outside and had a look and took some pictures of the verge. As you can see there is one obvious area that has a piece of mortar broken off. could this cause the leak that is in the...

Hi all sorry for the long post but i will just give you a bit of background of my issue. We bought our current house 2 years ago noticed the roof suffered with very bad condensation over last winter. The previous owner had fully boarded the loft and also built a scenery around most of the loft...

Hi all I'm after some advice with regards to insulating my loft which also includes the raked ceiling. Currently the loft is very poorly insulated so I've bought some 200mm knauf insulation and I've also purchased 4 boards of 50mm insulation board for the raked ceiling section and 20 lap vents...

Hi all, I've currently got a leaking roof that's causing me a few problems. As you can see by the pictures it has let water into my daughter's bedroom!! So far I've been let down by numerous roofers not turning up and the 3 that have turned up have all said different thing's. One has tried fix...

Hi all I'm after a bit of advice. I have just started to finalize all the plans for my new 4x4m timber frame rear extension. So far I've sorted out my build over agreement with Southwest water. I've also got an architect drawing up full plan's for me so i can start getting quotes in for the...

Hi all, I'm after a bit of advice. We are currently planning our 4x3m rear kitchen/diner extension and have a architect coming around on Monday to do some drawings for me. We are having to go to full plans as we are building over a public sewer. I was then going to use these plan's to get quotes...

Hi all I'm after a little bit of advice. I am looking into the idea of having a extension to the rear our semi detached property. We currently have a conservatory [already built when we bought house] and we would like to get rid of this and build a 3m x 3m extension in its place. We would then...