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Well I actually don't want to drill through it. If it's there and it's a steel lintel or something, I want to avoid drilling through it. Ideally I just want to find the edges of it if I can to get some idea of what it is and where I can put the shelf brackets instead. I have some super-strong...

Thanks for both replies: Masonry bit with a good but non-SDS drill (if that's not a contradiction in terms to professionals). I was just using these Erbauer tungsten-carbide bits. I'll have a look and see if the others I have are marked HSS, though if it is metal I really don't want to drill...

I've searched a lot of reviews and videos but it's hard to find information that isn't about studs behind board. I'm doing the simplest of tasks - putting up some shelves into a brick wall between two joining chimney stacks in a converted attic. Working my way upwards I've suddenly hit something...

Thanks. There was some minor guttering and roofing issues and they were taken care of at the same time. Put some extra venting in that room as well since then. I think given feedback here I'll probably try to put it somewhere else but if that's too much hassle with cabling it doesn't sound the...

First floor. And I was told there was some damp in that area there this would help with. I don't know about the waves. Seeing a few fish swimming past my living room might be kind of relaxing. Like those hotels they have where your room is underwater! :sneaky:

No. It's exactly what you imagine, a regular first floor at regular first floor flight. Though there is a floor above it. Hence me being a little suspicious as to why it was needed. There was definitely damp on the ground floor front and back, boards rotten too. Definitely needed work there. And...

I've read a few related threads here but not quite answered my question. I have pretty limited knowledge about this stuff. I have a DPM that was put in on a first floor wall (not wholly certain I wasn't taken for a ride) and then plastered over. It's not decorated yet though so that's something...

Literally all it took! Just slid it over a bit and on it went. I way overthought this. Thanks!

I took a couple of radiators off last week to redecorate. One has gone back on fine but the other I am having trouble with on the non-thermostat side. I'm not sure if the radiator has just been rehung at a very slight angle and the pipe is coming at it at not quite 90 degrees or if, as it seems...

Thanks. I feared I would probably have to go for the brick. Well I guestimate it to be about 2-3cm thick so not the worst. I guess I'll have to shove the plug down through the render and into the brick with a pencil or something. Or I use a long plug that includes the depth of the render as well...

I bought a house which has a lot of cladding around the back. I hope that's the right term. Personally I find it ugly and wish it still had just the red brick underneath but it is what it is. I don't know exactly what you call this - I don't think it's pebbledash as I don't think they're any...

I think probably I'll just lay a few pieces of wood over the block. If they rise above the level of the others slightly I'll just plane them down a little. Seems even simpler than cementing it in. Think I should have got him to do that at the time.

So the main outstanding question I have now is what sort of floor leveller or cement should I use? It's about 1cm deep for the most part. Maybe a little over in places. Do I just fill up the gap beneath the skirting with something so it doesn't seep through and then pour it over the block and to...

Ah. Yes. That would have been much better. The mount was semi-hidden under the old floor and it honestly didn't occur to me. When they had the old floor up and were replacing the joists I could see it but he never mentioned it as a concern and I didn't think to ask. So, now that this is the...

So the full background is that I bought this house and the survey came back with damp so in addition to doing damp-proofing in the walls, we took up the floor and replaced some of the joists and put down new boards. The kitchen definitely had rot, this room wasn't as bad but hard to tell until...

Hi. Very limited experience here. I recently paid someone to put down new boards and joists due to damp. They left it like this over the old fireplace block. I don't know if that's a normal way to leave it or not. I'd expected him to board over it and had never really thought to raise the...