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Building an apex roof
Ok so I am going to replace the roof of my sectional garage with a corrogated bitumen roof. The garage is approx 5.5m long with a 2.5m span. The walls are quite low at only 207cm to the top of the wall plate so I want to keep as much height as I can inside. I have toyed with the idea of building the trusses as standalone…
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Sorting issues with damp in victorian terraced house
Hi all I’m looking for some help and opinions on solving some damp related issues please. Due to everything going on with covid at the moment I have been unable to get a surveyor to come around and take a look properly. If some of the corrective actions are relatively straight forward and something I can do myself, I would…
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Oven repair guys please suggest a replacement oven to fit this unit..
Hi guys I am hoping somebody can help me here. I am a landlord of a small house nearby. It was professionally rewired and renovated 3 years ago. ALL appliances were brand new 3 years ago albeit they were budget branded items. The oven is made by a company called CDA/Matrix and the sticker on it says Model No: MD720SS1.…
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Re-pointing a small retaining wall.
Some of the mortar in the retaining wall for the drive is in a terrible state. Some of this may be down to a poor job either first time round or patching up at some point. The house is about 50 years old and I imagine the wall is similar. My suspicion though is that some of the damage is due to water exiting (or trying to…
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Expensive Bird
We had to call out an emergency gas engineer - this morning at a cost of £105 We had a bird, trapped behind a gas fire - you could hear it flapping around The chap came and took the fire out but the bird had disappeared up the chimney We have anti bird cages on top of the chimneys - but, somehow a bird got inHe left it…
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Damp Coming through Floor
We have an extension. The walls were done with some black breeze block type bricks. When we moved in, we took up some thin wooden flooring and put carpet in. Underneath seems to be solid concrete. Only noticed this over the winter but the edges of the carpet are damp. Outside on one side there are stones with mint planted…
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CH replacing timer with smart switch....
The timer has packed up on my CH system (vented Y plan set up) the present programmer has 2 modes DHW or Heating + DHW the model I was looking at is the Wiser 2 channel. I'm assuming L1 calls for heat and activates the pump , whilst L2 additionally activates the Y valve. My query is the Wiser has two options DHW or Heating…
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What to do first?
I want to have a drive laid, not sure what material yet maybe concrete or tarmac. Probably of no concern but, just have a pebble path with side strip of gravel at the moment. Anyway, I need a new wrought iron (double) gate and feel like I should have drive first but then would have to have that dug up for posts for gate.…
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Thermal Expansion of flat roof help
Bear with me here folks....My elderly mother lives in a large flat roof, self-contained, annex attached to the back of my house on a southerly aspect. As the temperature changes there is banging noises from the roof. I assume it is thermal expansion of the roofing timbers, it is worst in the evenings as the temperature…
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Dormer Loft Conversion
We want to add a Dormer loft conversion to our 1901 Terrace, I have been also thinking of re wiring at the same time, wiring is not that old but not that new either, we want to stay here for the foreseeable and didn’t want all the mess of a loft conversion then have all the mess again having a re wire. The thing that…
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Have you ever known a mains plug overheat or catch fire?
Discussion on another thread raised the question of how often this actually happens. A poll will be added in due course . . . possibly.
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Burning wood chips
After some landscaping work I have rather a lot of wood chips from pruned trees. I plan to use some for ground cover. Is there any possibility to burn the rest in a woodburner stove? I was wondering if I could make briquettes possibly combining used paper, cardboard, etc., which might burn better than loose woodchips.
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Wet floor under vinyl
Hi all. We have been noticing mould along one wall in our kitchen and when we lifted the vinyl the floor was soaked underneath it. There are central heating pipes running under that location so it was assumed we had a leak. The vinyl was laid directly onto of the concrete it has been suggested it could be trapped moisture.…
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Patio drain advice sought
Hi there, I'm installing my first patio in our garden and hope to seek some advice. Due to a high soil level and the placement of a manhole cover, we are looking to drain the patio into ACO strip drains into an existing clay pipe from an old drain (which we will just remove as its too high) I am also going to re-route the…
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Painting party wall (garage)
We have a garage joined on the side of our house that runs right to the boundary, and so the side wall of the garage faces onto my neighbours front garden and drive. His house is offset back so his drive goes past my garage and his garage is about ten foot behind, and the side of his faces onto my back garden, with a fence…
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Building control
I wonder if anyone can help me. I recently put an application in to remove a couple of walls within my house. I have pit up two steels in place as per the instructions of the Structural engineer.. The chap from building control is now telling me what doors I must fit ! Can he do this or is he going beyond his…
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drainpipe connection mess
Possibly the least sexy thing to be thinking about but I would be grateful for advice from anyone with knowledge and experience of these things: Upstairs flat have moved their kitchen and are installing a new bathroom. The soil pipe for their existing two bathrooms partially crosses the window of their lower bathroom which…
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false wall in the bathroom
hi guys, need someone to build a stud/false wall above bath, in order to be able to fit bathscreen. No plan to DIY. any ideas what trade guys would be the best fit for this job, e.g.: plumber? plasterers? thanks.
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Plastic Microwave to oven dishes?
Anyone know where we can buy them? Doing batch baking and cannot find them. We can buy ready meals from places like M&S in these type of container so they must be available.
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Low pressure boiler - no refill pressure loop
I have a Procombi Exclusive 30 boiler, and having bled the radiators the pressure is at zero. I've searched online and the guidance is always to turn the lever on the refill pressure loop, but there isn't one, or at least there isn't one anywhere I've been able to find. There are four levers under the boiler (a black one…
