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Hi all, not posted in a while - could do with some help on this please. In an upstairs room I have pulled up all of the original Victorian pine floorboards so that I could sister the joists etc. So, I'm nearly ready to put the boards back down and screw them to the new more level joists - my...

Trying to sort out bathroom floor which has differing levels on the floor (dont ask - old house). I can make the entire floor level if I lower a 1 meter span section of it - however I only have 2 inches of height to play with due to many reasons - can I span 1 metre with 2x2 and short centres ...

Hi folks, We have a new toilet waste coming down from the loft into the room below to connect to the existing 110mm waste. This will go pretty much across all of the brick wall in the room below to make the connection so we will be putting studwork on the whole wall to hide the new waste. As...

Hi, currently in the process of refurbing loft bedrooms and removing existing loose insulation as part of this. I notice that it had been stuffed up into the eves, currently thinking if its o k to leave it there?. Been there for over 20 years. Let me know what you think. Cheers.

Ok, in our front room we have two large cast iron rads (about 3 years old). We have known for some time that they cause the temp to overshoot quite badly due to latent heat etc. So now I am trying to mitigate this but not having much success. I have tried using the TRVs to limit the temp but...

Hi, I have a non condensing gas boiler, what is the best temp to set the boiler on for the central heating water temp ? - currently got it set on 65c but this is low according some things I have read. Please let me know what you think. Cheers.

Hi, thanks for the responses on my previous post. I have now dug out "most" of the affected timber and will now be inserting new wood where necessary. However, I cannot get to some of it but I have found the leak and have sorted it and its drying nicely now. If I can keep this dry will the rot I...

ok, I have recently cured the cause of this wood rot in our wooden conservatory (water ingress) and it has caused quite a bit of damage. Is that some kind of fungus that has been growing ? I'm assuming its a matter of digging out all of the rotten wood and filling with wood filler ? I will be...

Hi, just exposed a section of my loft to investigate etc. This stuff has probs been there over 20 odd years. I want clear it all out and refresh. Is this stuff likely to be dangerous? And thus will I need gloves and a mask?. Cheers.

We live in an old house and the front door is badly fitted and it and the frame are going rotten and need replacement. I don't really like composite doors and I feel they really don't match the age of the house. However, my wife insists on one. What really puts me off is the requirement for a...

ok, I am having an RSJ installed (supported each end on walls) in my loft so I thought this might be a chance to strengthen the existing understrength floor joists them by attaching them to the new RSJ which will sit literally 1 or 2 mm above the joists. I cannot disturb the ceiling that the...

As stated really, our freezer recently defrosted itself so we had to chuck everything out. We left it empty for a couple of weeks whilst we were on holiday and after getting a handy freezer thermometer it seemed to behave itself. However, I have looked at the readings every morning and it is...

Hi, I have just noticed that that we appear to have some damp around the edges of a hearth in our sitting room. I am quite worried about it and want to sort it asap. Any ideas whats going on here and what to do next ?

Morning, Just had our unvented hot water cylinder serviced - should we have received a certificate of some kind ?. My wife didnt ask for one and neither was she given one. Cheers.

Hi all, I had some large cast iron rads installed a couple of years ago. I know they are very sensitive to corrosion etc and so I ensured that the system was treated with plenty of inhibitor. Just to make sure all is well I have tested the system and the pH has come out at 9 which is too high...

Hello, We are in the midst of renovating a room and have pulled the carpet up and the old pine floorboards look quite nice but the wood has never been treated and needs some kind of protection. We dont want to change the colour and would ideally like to treat it with a single coat of something...

Ok, we had an unvented cylinder fitted last year and every now and then our en suite would fill up with bad smells. We located this to the pipe that comes out of the unvented cylinder which has a tundish on it. The problem here is that this pipe drains into the sink waste. As a result sewer...

Hi, Last year we had a shower cubicle installed in our bathroom (it didnt have one before) and it drains into the same waste as the bath. We also had an unvented cylinder fitted (complete with tundish) replacing a vented system. Since then every now and then the bathroom fills full of sewer...

Hi, just after some advice on this one. I couldn't get a plasterer in as this job was too small so I had a go myself..... After removing wallpaper from around an upstairs window - I found alot of bad cracks and loose plaster so I chipped all of the loose stuff out and was left with some quite...

Hi, As part of my loft room renovations we need an RSJ installing at floor level to support a purlin that has been cut (long story). This RSJ will pretty much sit on the existing floor joists and be supported by brick wall at both ends. This RSJ will be perpendicular to the floor joists so I...