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I somehow doubt scaffolders are going to start carrying around air compressors to reduce the noise they make by a few decibels to please one or two people. I think most people don't keep their mouth shut, but understand people sometimes need to make some noise in order to do a job, I'm sure...

To be honest I live on the outskirts of a city and I'm not keen on lots of noise. That said I can deal with scaffolders working 4 or 5 times a year for a few hours, it's not a big deal. :D

Evening, We've been ripping out rotting joists in our living room in a 1920's house today, when we removed the floor, joists and got a look under them, the earth on one side of the room looks to have sunk and cracked as of the wall on that side of the house has dropped. There doesn't appear to...

If that was in the house when it was built then I doubt it would be asbestos as it wasnt used back then, however theres every possibility the house has undergone renovation since it was built, so it could be something added at a later date. There are a lot of labs you can send a sample off to...

I'm not a builder so someone may correct me here if I'm wrong, but from my understanding a constructual hearth needs to be 125cm of non combustible material capable of absorbing the heat of the fire. If you're going with a burner in future, you can get burners certified not to heat the hearth...

Morning! Today's mini project was to remove the old wooden surround for the fireplace and finish building up the hearth with a self levelling compound, top that with ply to floor level so that we can drop a rug over it for now until we have the room re-joisted and plastered. Few weeks ago I...

I don't know, are you?o_O

Thanks for the replies both :) It's a downstairs fireplace. I tried to get the tiles up without damaging them but many of them had hairline cracks which caused them to fail under the slightest movement, I saved a few, I'll see if any salvage places nearby want them. After removing the first...

Some better pictures now I have hovered the dust and removed the small debris.

I think that's what the bit in front of my fire is called? We moved in a few months ago (1920s house) and one of the first things (of many) we noticed is that the hearth of the fire is sinking in the middle, the tiles are cracked. So I lifted the lose tiles today to find cracked, sunken...

Working in an industry where we see cannabis factories on a daily basis, it's really not often they are picked up by neighbours, they usually make themselves known by interference with utilities or boarding up windows, no snow on the roof in winter is another one. OP shouldn't really worry...

No worries, it's difficult to explain exactly what I meant so my cobbled together post probably wasnt very clear :D Thanks for your time and advice all the same!

I'm new to the terminology so bear with me! There are 3 pots (the bits on the top of the chimney that vent smoke?) outside, 2 have been capped, one is live. The stack is not shared. All have been smoke tested and only one failed, the failed one is in the dining room and will eventually be...

Here's a bigger picture of the fireplace, just in case it was unclear what i'm dealing with...

Thanks for the response, I'm not removing bricks as such the only 'brick' i've moved is the backing of the fireplace (the black one thats almost square) The other brick is sat loose on a pile of rubble behind the fireplace, so removing it from the pile of rubbish shouldnt hurt? I'm just not...

Hello, new here! We purchased a 1920's semi detached house a few months ago and it has 3 fire places, 2 downstairs and one in the front bedroom, the two downstairs ones are clear, we use the one in the living room directly below the one in the main bedroom. I was just looking at the one in the...