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    Vapour barrier or not

    Hi all. I am laying some laminate flooring on to a suspended wooden ground floor living room which has a small concrete/ screeded area attached to the end of one side of the room. I've brought a vapour barrier sheet for this but wanted to know whether I should cover the entire room. My floor is...
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    Mould on floorboards, advice needed please

    Hi all just after a bit of advice please. As pics show some white mould spots in patches in my living room suspended floor. The floor is double boarded with tongue and groove on top and standard floorboards underneath that. No visible dampness or major smell. The previous laminates were down for...
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    DPC Query, wetroom

    Hi All. We would like to refit a downstairs shower room to a wetroom. The old shower tray is over 100mm high from memory. The waste is just over the DPC from the pic. Is there any way a new waste pipe system can be set lower to allow for a wetroom or even a lower shower tray to be fitted without...
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    Best plaster for salt damaged wall/vent

    Hi all. Salt build-up from chimney. Need to identify best DPC or ideally plaster I should use before finishing with multi finish. Also is a vent ok in the middle of a bricked up chimney? I forgot to add when I started bricking! Thanks
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    Ceiling scrape or paint?!

    Morning All. I have 10 year old silk on my ceiling. I'm removing wallpaper from walls and part of the ceiling paint is peeling off from the sides as I do this. I will paint ceiling anyway with matt but I'm not sure whether to continue peeling the silk or leave it on and use a primer like...
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    Gaps to fill

    Hi All. We have had a new front porch extension and I need to finish off inside flooring. Do I need to seal any of the gaps in these pics where skirting will go? Also the old joining section has some bigger gaps underneath where the floor meets the joists. I want to seal all tiny gaps to stop...
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    Advice on Engineering Brick course

    Hi everyone. I am having a porch built at the front of the house. Foundations completed but my builder has used only three engineering bricks of which the bottom of the lower row is virtually level with ground level. Probably one CM will be below ground level. Underneath that he has used breeze...
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