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Hi all, Just a quick question. Apologies if wrong section but I thought roofing might be my best bet. I've got to strip back, treat and repaint some weatherboard on my house. One particular section is above an extension with a double glazed glass roof that joins onto the old out building...

Hi all, After some help in identifying what type of mortar this is? It's a single skin wall and on the interior I have removed decades worth of paint from the brick and mortar which is definitely lime mortar. This is the outside. It's solid and quite tough, but when I break a bit off it's...

Peter Ward on YouTube. Whilst I think that at times he goes a bit OTT, his logic I think is sound.

Yes it can do if its been doing it for a long time. Especially if there is a bit of dody pointing there as well. You may get some water running along, collecting and dropping off that cable as well straight onto the problem area. There may be a few other issues in the corner as well but I...

I don't have the depth for this. I can only come out a max of 50mm.

To me it looks like that whole wall above the archway is sopping wet. I’m thinking knackered guttering combined with some poor pointing at the problem corner? Is that your neighbour on the other side of the arch. Have they got any issues?

Hi all, I've got to insulate an external wall in our former outbuilding. It's single skin brick. The issue is, I've only got 50mm depth to play with due to the wooden beam along the top of the wall that we want to and need to leave exposed. Originally, I was thinking of dot and dabbing...

I would assume that we would need to apply for listed building consent to do this. The gable end wall was studded out and covered in insulated plasterboard, and then tiled as this was where the cooker was previously. However I don't think this was done correctly as the back of the insulation was...

Hi all, Looking for some advice. Next job for our old cottage is the former outbuilding now utility room. Previous owners have extended out to it and used it as a kitchen previously. It's a single skin brick construction. Our property is grade listed so we have limitations to work with but...

Metal flue

Evening all, Happy new year and all that! 2020 eh..... Anyway, I've got a few questions that hopefully I can be guided towards the right answers as most questions and threads seem to be on installation rather than removal. So, we have two wood burners in our house. We didn't install them...

Great. Thanks. That was my next question! I've cleaned it all off, been over it with meth spirits. My plan is to silicone the shower tray tonight, making sure that where the frame will sit against the wall, it's sealed but flush with the tiles. Let it dry over night and then fit the frame...

Hi all, From what I've been reading, this seems to be a somewhat classic scenario! Basically, shower tray wasn't siliconed before the frame went in, so the water that made it into the frame rather than drain back into the tray, found the small gap between the tile and tray behind the frame and...

Yes will be fitting a splashback as well.

Hi all So the wall where our new range oven is going (electric oven, gas hob) is on an angle. So I am having to build out the wall to straighten it up. (otherwise the oven doesn't line up flush with the worktop/units, or I'm left with a big gap at the back of oven on one side). Do I need to...

I didn’t ask them to. Only wanted the worktop fitting by them. I haven’t got the upstands yet.

Hi all Just had our lovely oak worktop fitted in our kitchen. The guys have done a very good job considering there isn't a straight line anywhere in our old cottage! Looking at finishing it off with oak upstands.... A couple of questions. Considering I know there isn't a 90 degree corner in...

Hi all, We have decided to remove our fireplace surround as we really didn’t like and we are getting the whole wall skimmed anyway so it was a good opportunity. Originally it was an open fire when the house was built (around 1850) and then circa 1990s it was changed to a wood burner. I’ve...

Hi all, Hoping for some ideas on the below. I've attached a couple of photos to help explain a bit better. Currently doing up an old cottage. There was a floor to ceiling crack along this internal corner between an existing lath and plaster wall (the wall with the door frame) and a newer...

Evening all, Already picked up some good advice on here about other topics and hoping for the same with this! We are in the final stages of renovating our newly purchased 1800s cottage. 2 walls of the lounge are next on the hit list (the others have already been taken back to beams and...