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Hi All, Have just used a Chippy to install worktops and am concerned about the quality of the work done. Brief was to install a horseshoe worktop with island to the right hand side, cut and fit end panels and backboard, and fit additional straight worktop in the utility area. Concerns were...

Hi All, We are installing a new kitchen, and I have an extractor fan problem. The kitchen has fixed ducting which passes through the extension to the exterior wall. This is inaccessible to change as it bends up from the kitchen and travels under the first floor bedroom (which has fitted...

Hi all, I am intending to build a Barbeque in the garden and have loads of red paver bricks. Anyone know whether mortar will hold these together well enough, or will they just collapse without having the standard brick hollow? Iain

hi all, Following some building works and moving of the main drain to a new location, I now have the remains of an approximately 6inch thick concrete "base" (about 2m each side) with a rough 1m gap down the middle where the builders took out the old drain, in front of my new French doors...

Hi all, Am fitting a new kitchen (have done a couple before). However I have never bothered with decorative architrave over the top of the wall units before. My problem is that I have a 4.5m run on one side of the kitchen, which necessitates a straight joint between two pieces of the...

Hi all, I am part way through a major redecoration project and we have just rewired the lighting upstairs. This is a 1930s semi with an unfelted roof, so naturally a lot of dust and rubbish ends up on anything stored in the attic. The previous owners had tried to combat this by nailing up...

Hi all, Not sure if this is the right section, but here goes... About a month ago I discovered a leak from a faulty washnig machine hose (washer wasn't ceratnig a seal proprly) and a lot of water underneath my sink unit. We sorted out the leak, dried up all the water etc, but there was a...