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I was looking at it again last night and thought the same. That covering seems to be about 2mm thick and the front is like a trim that goes around a door frame. I think sand that down and replace the covering (glued down?) should do it. I wouldn't get away with just removing and painting as its...

Hi all, I was gutting my house and thought I would save a job by leaving the old window boards in and just imagined I'd get a pvc cover fitted on top of it. Having just had one of the rooms plastered and looking online for something that I can cut down to cover it, I'm finding nothing. It seems...

Thanks for the advice so far. I've been through a number of builders, each as bad the last. I'm now stuck trying to make the best of a bad situation myself. I've learnt a lot in my experience renovating this house. Mainly not to bother in the future

Hi all, I found out from a builder that my Building Control company had lost their licence and were due to cease trading so rang up for a partial completion certificate. No other company will touch it now and say it must go through the local council. I spoke to the council and they said make...

Hi all I posted about my issue a while back but the thread went dead before I managed to update it. I'm having a popping/crackling sound when walking on my new floor and its driving me crazy. Just wondering the best way to attack it from below in order to fix it. The noise isn't that loud and...

Hi and thanks for the reply. There is about a 20 to 30mm gap around the edges of the floor where it goes in towards the eaves but it does get quite tight on the gable ends (few mil or even butting up to the brick in places, see pic). At the gaps towards the eaves I planned to either expanding...

Hi to all, I've had a renovation done on my bungalow that has all sorts of problems. Todays issue is chipboard flooring making a cracking or maybe crackling noise when walked on. Its 22mm tongue and grove flooring that has been nail gunned in as far as I can tell. The carpet has just gone in...

Hi all, I am 8 months into what I was told was a 2 month bungalow attic conversion. To cut a long story short (cause is builder half arsing before walking off) I'm in a situation with my dormers whereby the roof tiles and dry verge went on prior to fascias and cladding. So my new builder has...

Hi to all, I'm having a complete renovation of my bungalow and converting the attic. As part of this a new roof and dormers. Long storey short it started in July and had dormers built but not sealed tight. Fast forward to October and the tiled roof went on but the ply cheeks remained exposed...

Sorry Ted, I'm referring to it as ply but it appears to be this stuff that has been installed https://www.building-supplies-online.co.uk/sterling-osb-3-board-11mm-x-2440mm-x-1220mm.html

Thanks for all the replies, a big help. With regards to the roof, so far the builder has put up the same osb plywood on the roof, although when I queried it he said he needed to double up the 11mm plywood that is on there. From what I can tell the architect has two sections in the spec...

Hi, my builder is currently building a flat roof dormer for me and has used 11mm OSB plywood instead of 19mm wbp plywood. The spec from the architect is below which details k-render but I have discussed with the builder and agreed tiles would be better (not sure if that is relevant...