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Hi, Approx 4 years ago I had my garage converted to a room and had a roofer come in and replace the felt roof with insulated EPDM. We have subsequently had issues with a leak which appears to be where the flat roof meets a partially pitched roof. The roofer that initially did the work...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice regarding replacing a retaining garden wall. Pictures are attached of the wall when we bought the house 5 years ago. The wall is now bowing quite a lot in the middle and you can visibly see water coming through the mortar when large amounts of water...

I have a problem in our back garden with a retaining wall. The wall is approximately 6m long and .8m high. It is leaning in the middle of the wall and there appears to be lots of cracks in the wall, I will try and upload a picture later today. The wall is retaining the rest of my garden which...

Hi, Just had a new bathroom suite put in and have also had thermostatic mixer shower fitted that is spurred off the bath taps. Since this has been added occasionally when running the cold tap and turning it off the boiler fires just for a second. Any ideas if this is dodgy/dangerous...

Hi, Electrician is at home at the moment wiring up a conservatory we have had built. He has told the wife that he recommends running the wiring from our kitchen on the outside wall. This sounds not right to me, anyone tell me if this is safe?

Hi, I have just moved into a house where they have a Worcester 24cdi combi boiler installed and wanted to ask a few questions: 1. At present the hot water seems to be quite a bit lower pressure than the cold, never having had a combi boiler before I don't know if this is normal, is it...

Hi, I have just moved into a new house, I want to take out the old electric oven they have in place and have a Duel Fuel (electric oven/Gas hob) freestanding range cooker. There is no gas connection at present for the cooker but there is gas supplied to the house for our central heating...

Hi, I have just moved into a house and I want to ensure that the electrics are up to scratch, looking at the fusebox it is an older style box (old style fuses built in the 70's I believe) and I definitely want to get it replaced with the newer CU that has flipswitches RCD etc. So my...