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Thanks for all the replies.

Yeah I asked about the rags, the engineer said they were told "hold it all in place"... ?! Think you're probably right about the squeaking. But it's a big ol' mess down there, the whole cavity is filled with crap - paper, sawdust, cardboard... seems like quite a big fire hazard to me but the...

Nope there is no protection. I thought I was nailing into a joist below, but some kind soul has in the past cut the joist and laid cables & pipework directly under the floorboards. Nice.

Hi all, Last night I managed to hammer a nail through a gas pipe under a floorboard (not ideal!) Gas is off and the pipe is being fixed up tonight, so no drama. However when the board was lifted this morning, to my horror I saw that I was literally about 0.5mm away from driving the nail...

Hi, I realised the other day that I could hear water running through the pipes in my kitchen, but damned if I could find it. I then discovered tonight that the hose attached to the outside tap in my garden has been running - god knows for how long (hope my neighbours don't shop me for the...