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It's small block parquet. The whole house is ultra-1960s (wood ceilings etc), so it has to stay! Thanks for the help Woody. The hype made it look so simple. I'll contact Uretek and see what they say...

I have a concrete floor slab in the hallway of my home, which has sunk about 10mm from the floors of the surrounding rooms. The house was built in 1968. The slab hasn't moved in the three years I've owned the place. I have been searching on ways to fix it and found a process called slabjacking...

Cheers John. Kind of what I'm thinking too. The previous owner had a car parked on top of it, so it should hold a workbench. Maybe. I don't really want to disturb it, so I'll fill the hole I made and leave it alone for now. Always bet on black.

Hi all, I'm in the process of converting a car port into a garage and have discovered the ground under the poured concrete floor slab may have dropped. The garage is 48 years old and is in an area susceptible to subsidence (big pine trees surrounding the house). One half of the slab...

Brilliant - thanks catlad.

Can anyone help identify these vertical tiles? House built 1965.

Thanks guys. I have filed a Building Notice and spoke to the chap at building control (who was indeed friendly!) - he said no need for sound proofing existing party wall, which I thought odd, but hey. My house may as well be made out of paper - you can hear quite a lot through the party wall...

I'm planning to move my upstairs bathroom to a room which shares a wall with the adjoining house. Am I required to sound-insulate the party wall? If so, what are the requirements?

This is what I like to hear! It would make sense to put scaff up if there was any way of getting it onto the site without tramping it all through the (recently decorated) house and into the tiny walkway outside. The chap is has been good about the whole thing - he says it'll be a sod, but is...

I have a problem with an unsupported chimney in my house and it needs to be removed above roof level. I have had a builder over to quote on the job and he suggested doing all the work with using ladders and crawling boards rather than scaffold, as access to the rear of the property is difficult...

Yesterday I changed a light in my kitchen, which required me to turn the kitchen power supply off at the consumer unit. When I turned the power back on, the boiler was dead - completely and utterly dead. I checked the fuse at the switch and the fuse on the PCB and both are OK. There is 240v...

What an image! :lol: OK... the building is old and has been converted into two flats. I know that there used to be an outside toilet draining into that drain - the smashed-up remains of the ceramic is still there (this is East London, after all). Only other problem is that the drain hole...

I would like to move my kitchen sink from it's current position to the other side of my back door. At present, the sink drains to a soil stack directly on the outside of the wall. If the sink is moved, there is no long a route for the waste pipe as it would have to run across the door. There...