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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi all, Carrying on with the renovation of our cottage, we've had floorboards up to replace/run pipes and cable as well as fit insulation. Some of the old floorboards were knackered anyway and split as we lifted them so I have replaced with the same thickness boards where required. The...

Evening all, I'm hoping that some of you fine people can send some suggestions my way as I'm at the end of my tether! We are currently doing up our new house. The lounge ceiling has been skimmed (by a very good and trusted plasterer) and I have mist coated it with diluted matt emulsion. All...

Hi all, After some advice. Renovating our cottage and the old bathroom has been completely ripped out. We will be building out a stud wall for one side of the shower enclosure. The original plan was to use ply and then tank however I’m know much more keen to use a tile backing board. So...

Hi all, First time poster. Been doing a lot of reading but couldn't find an answer to my specific questions so please bear with me! We have recently purchased a grade 2 listed cottage. I'm in the process of doing it up (all within listed building consent/consideration etc). I was lucky...