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Hi, We've just had a new hearth and wood burning stove installed by hetas approved installer and the day after the stove has been on there appears to be quite a lot of water under the hearth that evaporates over the next couple of days. It is a Victorian terrace and when moving furniture for...

Hi, We live in a Victorian terrace and when moving some furniture noticed a small patch of effloresence coming through the plaster. A damp company confirmed we had damp so 2 weeks ago we had the plaster removed on a 4m width of wall, injected and then replastered to about a metre high. The base...

Hi we've got some textured black porcelain tiles from topps called Qrock, grouted with grey. They've been on for a couple of years but have more a greyish appearance - not sure if old grout residue or the sheen from the tiles gone when grouting (the grey grout seemed coarser). Only just getting...

Hi, The landlord next door has a noisy downpipe that I would like to try and sort. We're soundproofing the rest of the house so want to sort this too. It is a plastic downpipe from the wooden guttering and it runs vertical, no bend, into a hopper and then straight down to the drain. There...

Hi, We want to cut out the noise from chatting, music and TV from our student neighbours - don't mind it in the day but not after say 11pm so we're going to try soundproofing Along the party wall (2 alcoves and chimney breast) I was going to build a new stud decoupled using the approach...

Hi, We're in the process of getting ready to put up 2 stud walls with insulation and sound board in our first floor bedrooms that adjoin the neighbours as the noise carries. I thought I would lift some floorboards to put some noggins in and some sound insulation whilst at it. The house is...

We're in a 3 story victorian terrace and we want to move my lad to an attic room but need to make some more storage for all his stuff like his board games etc. The room has a dormer window and running parallel is the eaves. I would like to board out a couple of meters worth and box it in and...

Hi, We need to get retrospective building regs approval and our cloakroom (just toilet and basin). Currently it has a bog standard fan that is controlled with the light switch cord. We need to replace this with a timed one to meet the regs. Looking on the net it seems timed extractor...

Hi, we have a valient boiler and it has a F22 code on it, which means dry fire. When we get this my missus normally opens the valve and puts more water in. Today that didn't work so tried to ring the installer. There was no answer so unknown to me she put more in. The result is we have a lot...

Hi we are considering putting in a log burner if we stay in our current house so imagine we would need the chimney lining. There are 3 floors that the liner would need to run down. We would be looking to do this say in a year or two as would need to save up. Before this though in our 1st...

Hi, We renovated our house a few years ago and it involved getting building regs - we had an RSJ put it. installed a downstairs cloakroom, had the house rewired and other bits. The building regs said he couldn't sign it off till we got the electrical certificate. It took us a long time to...

Hi, we live in a terraced house and our neighbours are students and our 4 bedrooms share the party wall. I'm not sure if single brick or double but in the evening and night time noise carries. Mostly they aren't a bad bunch and don't make excessive noise - but it is the everyday noise like late...

Hi and apologies if this is the wrong forumas I know it isn't hardware but I'm after some advice. We had our house rewired so had cat5 run through the house with a couple of points in each room. The house is over 3 stories and the plan was to have the hub housing on the 3rd floor and the BT...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help. We have a sixth sense whirlpool washing maching (model AWOE8759B) and it is only about 14 months old. It recently flashed uo a F13 error and my partner turned it off. on looking in the manual it says we should hold the reset button for 13 seconds. The...

Hi I was hoping for some advice. A friend is pregnant and their small back garden needs an overhaul so I have volunteered to do it for them. They have had two out houses knocked down and they want a seating area about 5 metre square where they were. The two out houses floors are next to each...

hi, hoping for some advice :D We have just had our house renovated and rewired. In the process the electrician ran coax leads to all rooms from the cellar. They are not terminated in the cellar but just hanging loose. He said we could get an ariel person in to put an ariel on the roof and...

Hi hoping someone can help. I have a pair of old porch doors that open in the middle. The lock on it is like a mortice lock but it has a step in it (I'm not sure how to describe it!) where the doors join and overlap in the middle. ______ _I I I______I This is if you were to...

Hi we have some new wooden worktops and mosaic tiles with white grout. I've left the gap between the worktops and 1st row of tiles as I wasn't sure what to use. i didn't want to get grout all over the worktops adn I guess grout may crack as the worktop swells/shrinks. But then again...

Hi we have a condensing bioler and water cylinder in a cupboard. We have put a new MDF door on. Does this require vent cutting in it 9there is about 10mm gap at bottom of the door). Thks

Hi we have chipboard floor in our kitchen and ply in out bathroom. We are putting vinly on top. botht he ply and chipboad are screwed down adn quite a few of the screw heads are countersunk beneath the surface. Do these need filling to stop the holes showing in the vinyl? If so what is best...