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Our building has a shop on the bottom with three levels of flats above it. The shop changed hands and the builders decided to take out the supporting walls without a) sufficient support and b) a building warrant. This led to things like the windows dropping to squint, obviously cracks and...

I've been told that the joiner will "ease and adjust" my sash windows because the building dropped and so there's a now a gap. I asked several times what "ease and adjust" means and all they kept saying was that it meant they would ease and adjust the windows. I got the idea that it meant...

Hi. Our house had bad subsidence so we levelled the kitchen floor by building a frame and sitting 10mm (or maybe 12mm) MDF on top. We tiled it but since then the tiles have popped up in places and we're about to retile it. I'm reckoning the tiles popping up could be for a number of...

I've just taken over an office with some really old and ugly coverings on the windows which I presume to be vinyl. I've tried peeling them off to varied success. On a couple of windows, the vinyl came off in large strips but left behind piles of dry adhesive - I managed to get the adhesive...

I have a room with a toilet in it. I'd rather have it as a shower room. What should I do about the soil pipes once I've removed the toilet bowls? How do I block them off? Or can I simply have the drainage water going down the toilet's waste pipe instead of plumbing it into the sink's...