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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...

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...

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

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?

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...

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...