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Hi The boiler has an intermittent fault when firing, sometimes it will start on the timer no problem and other times I need to give the side of the boiler a gentle thump to get it to kick in. I am a qualified spark but boilers aren't my speciality but don't mind investigating just looking...

Hi After being let down by my tiler and we are desperate to get our kitchen finished, i have decided that i may be able to tile my kitchen floor. Pretty good at practical tasks have managed to renovate the house, with only the plumbing and plastering done by profesionals. Have searched...

Hi Around the bottom of my house is a concrete plinth like render all the way round, and its all crumbling off, so had a deeper investigation of it too me it does not serve a purpose its comes up three courses of brick and covers the damp proof course. Can i just chip it all away and be...

Hope someone can advise please I have had a plasterer reskim my whole house and there have been several patchs and 2 whole walls have had to be re done because the plaster has just bubbled up and come off when applying the mist coat, we put pva 5-1 mix on the walls, they had been painted...

Hi Have read several threds and cant quite get the answer im looking for. I need to move the main internal stopcock in the newly aranged kitchen do not want it as a feature in the middle of the room, however i was going to get a plumber to do this but have been let down twice and really...

Hi Have rewired my new house and will be chasing in the cables and the heating pipes, need advice on how to prep the walls ready for a skim of plaster, how do i need to protect the pipes from the plaster to stop cracking, i was going to cover my chases and with bonding plaster my self...

Hi recently purchased my first house, and i the throws of renovating it, i would like to know if i can buy a standard 2600mm(floor-floor) rise staircase and trim 5cm of each end trim the treads and risers and lower it to 2500mm, this may be a silly question wanted to put my mind at rest and...