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My 3 bed semi roof needs 4 ventilation tiles inserted, a chimney capped and another chimney repaired by possibly replacing the lead flashing and/or repointing. Now I asked a couple of roofers to have a look. One eventually looked and couldn't be bothered to give me an estimate, the other didn't...

We moved into our house a couple of years ago where there is a 30 year old alarm system with movement detectors. It has never been serviced as far as I'm aware and we never use it because we have a cat. I want to deactivate/turn off the whole system. Any advice on the following would be much...

After the heavy rain on Friday night I went up into my loft and to my horror, found that the rain has seeped into the whole of the roof space. All the felt is soaked with the rain dripping through the felt onto the loft insulation, and the rafters and joists are wet. The tiles look like...

Can anyone recommend a reliable COTGI gas fitter to supply and fit a new combi gas boiler in the Newport, S Wales area? Cheers.

I have bought a 1960's house which has distemper on the ceilings. I am about to repaint so do I have to scrape the paintwork off the whole ceiling or is there anything on the market that I can treat it with first before I paint.

My 3 bed semi's walls have quite a few cracks (half to one millimetre from ceiling to floor). A year ago I redecorated, cut back the cracks, refilled with normal polyfilla, then lining paper and 2 coats of paint. A year on and the cracks have started to reappear, splitting the lining paper. I am...

My boiler is an E Type RS60 (series 4) balanced flue gas boiler. It also has a brand name of "Ideal Standard" on the cover. British Gas have told me they will no longer service it as it is obsolete and they cannot get parts for it if it went wrong. BG have quoted £4,650 for fitting a new one...

My gas boiler is over 30 years old and British Gas have refused to service it anymore because they can't get the spare parts. To cut a long story short I decided to let them give me a quote for supplying and fitting a new Combi gas boiler, and removing the old water tank etc. I live in a normal...

I moved into a house a few months ago which has a very old gas boiler (probably 25 years old) which heats the central heating and hot water. There is a control on the boiler, number from 1 to 6 (we have this on 2)which I think just controls the temperature of the hot water (the radiators do not...

My daughter has managed to remove some of the top layer from a chip board, beech effect bedside cabinet. This has revealed a white mark on the surface. Is there anything on the market i.e. a stain or a polish that I can use that will at least make the mark less noticable.

I am painting my lounge ceiling (white dulux trade matt). The previous owner smoked a pipe and the ceiling is stained and this keeps burning through my new coat of paint. Can anyone recommend a sealer/primer that I can paint on prior to the final matt coat to stop this happening? Thanks.

I have just had new carpets fitted and the doors wont close. I need to take off the doors and plane the bottoms to ensure they will not scrape on the carpet when closing. Problem is I am having terrible difficulty removing the hinge screws. They have been painted over and I can't budge them...

To cut a long story short have spent the last week looking after a relative's house whilst they went on holiday. Unfortunately we have put a large scratch on their kitchen worksurface (not granite). Is there anything on the market that will fill/polish out such a scratch? The worksurface is a...

Couple of questions re laying loft insulation: 1. Has anybody used the "foil "Space Blanket" loft insulation and is it any good? 2. The Space Blanket blurb says that you can lay across the joists (at right angles) if the joists are not very high and are already filled with insulation...

My flat garage roof was leaking because the felt has gone along the seams in a couple of places. I don't have the money to replace the roof at the moment so I have used Thompsons Aquaseal (the rubber paint) to seal the cracks as a temporary repair. It seeems to have worked and I was wondering if...

I've just moved to a 3 bed semi house, built in 1963, which has a lintel problem. There is visible cracking both on the outside and inside of the property around the lintels above all the windows. The survey said that the problem is due to thermal movement of the lintels. The survey said that...