botch job?

I’ve had some major renovation on our house with large RSJs being installed, among other things. The builders’ left and I’m now getting on with the improvements/repairs I can make myself. One of the jobs is replacing the floorboards they’d ‘fixed’ using smaller metric boards with the correct...

Hi all, I’ve recently had some major renovation on our house with a number of walls removed and RSJs installed on the lower ground floor. The builders have now gone and building control signed off the work. There’s still a lot to be done, however. I need to fix some rotten joists by the front...

I had a team of "professionals" repaint the drywalls of a newly-purchased house. A few days after they completed the work, two kinds of defects appeared on the walls, in a large number of different spots. The first kind (depicted below) is the paint looking either depressed or protruded over...

I have a contractor installing external wall insulation at the back of my house. As part of the job, the roof of the gable end wall needed to be extended by 125 mm (half a slate width). I offered to source and buy the slates. After meeting with the contractors I suggested "There are 19...

We have just had a conservatory fitted, (at great expense) but each time it rains, water has leaked down the inside newly plastered wall and appeared to be from behind the box guttering. (hip back glass roof to house wall) It appears the firm have just stuck their lead flashing, under our old...