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Party Wall Settlement - what if company goes bust?
After an extremely prolonged period of 4 yrs from a construction company cracking our house inside and out through very close piling works to now finally attending zoom meetings with the party wall surveyor to agree on repairs and damages, we are being a bit strong armed by the surveyor as they suggest the constructor may…
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Positive /negative head shower pump
Many years ago we had a pre formed shower cubicle installed and a pump because both hot/cold are gravity fed from tanks, the pump (2 bar) never worked properly as we always had to lower the adjustable shower head (nearly to the floor) before the pump would start. Now we’ve got rid of the old shower and installed a dual…
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Changing a shower cubicle back to a bath DIY possible?
Hello everyone When I moved into my house the bath had been replaced with a rather large walk in shower cubicle by the previous owners. I have small children so would like to reinstate a bath with shower screen and keep the current electric shower over it. Is this something that would be possible as a DIY job seeing as a…
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Upcycling a bathroom cabinet
Hi, I acquired a bathroom cabinet from freecycle. It is very similar to this. Buy Argos Home Tongue & Groove Single Storage Unit - White | Freestanding bathroom cabinets | Argos The top of the cabinet has a few marks on which I would like to cover. I wasn't sure what the best thing would be to use would be, which could…
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Damp spongy wall behind tiles. Help please!
We noticed a leak coming from the cracked grout around the tiled bath wall. We’ve removed the tiles and found that areas of the wall behind are wet and crumbly/ spongy. Is there anything else we can do apart from keeping the tiles off and keeping the wall dry to make it dry and ready to be re tiled?
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Shower not draining - not even a drop
I am asking this on behalf of my niece. She was abroad for work for 3-months and returned to her flat a week ago. We noticed that her shower isnt draining out of the waste pipe at all (we checked outside while it was on). Instead, within a minute or two the water is appearing from under the shower and flooding the floor.…
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Wood saw dust under kitchen cabinets with some remnants of of insects
Hi everyone. I am in the process of ripping out some old old kitchen cabinets in the kitchen of an old house we just bought. When I looked behind and under the cabinets I found heaps of what looks like wood saw dust. There were some weird shells too, could be beetle remains? I am not from UK so no idea what this could be?…
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DIY radiator circuit flush
Relatives' bungalow has at least one radiator blocked (with sludge, I presume) and a couple more partially cold, and the whole system is a bit slow. So I will have a go at clearing the affected rads and maybe attempt to flush the whole circuit. There are 17 radiators and the circuit is gravity fed. There's a magnetic…
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Fabric blinds for large bifold/patio doors? Do they help with insulation? Or use Luxaflex duette?
We've got some new 4.5m bifold doors which we're looking to put some blinds in front of. One consideration is if the blinds will help keep the room warmer in winter. ie: Simply close the blinds on cold days and especially over nights to help keep the house warmer. We're considering either just using regular roller blinds…
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Help identifying fence paint colour?
Does anyone know what colour this fence paint might be? It's kind of a taupey purple/mauve. Thought it was Cuprinol Heartwood (painted a swatch on the second picture) but looks like it's drying too light, more of a lilac. Any ideas much appreciated!
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Brown spots from Washing Machine
Hello, Just did a wash today and heard a little bang but everything seemed okay and didn't hear anything since. Got he sheet out and there are brown dots like the ones in the drum and in random place on the sheet. Cant see anything out of place in the drum and was working fine yesterday. Anyone know what his is? The washer…
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What's wrong with my tap?
Old taps, old plumbing in the upstairs bathroom. The hot tap starts off fine when turned on then slows to a trickle really quickly. All water pressure in all other taps including the shower mixer in the bathroom are fine. I thought it was fine the other day but I might have imagined it as its doing it again last two times…
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Repairing garden tiles
Hi Some decorative tiles outside the front of my house have become stained and unstuck. I want to clean them and stick them back down in a relatively quick fix method. Any advice of what products i can use to do this? Thanks Mellik
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Builders liability (materials in road)
Hi I’ve hired some builders to do my driveway. Today they had pallets of bricks delivered and these were placed in the road outside my driveway. These are likely to stay all weekend. I’m concerned they may not have a license to do this and have tried to contact them to ask. If a car should come along and hit the pallets…
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Robot vacuum cleaners
Has anybody got one? Am becoming rather disabled and wonder if having one would make vacuuming easier for me can anybody recommend a specific model? A specific list of pros and cons pros would be really helpful. Thanks.
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Advice please? Can you lay Indian sandstone on solid concrete with sand inbetween?
We have some pavers in to break up our concrete garden, to level, add in a step (we're on a slope) and pave with Indian sandstone. The concrete is hard (shock horror) and they can't get it out easily. To be fair to them the concrete is maybe 200mm thick or more. The area at the side of my kitchen is also supposed to be…
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Vintage bath wall shelf/caddy ?
Hi, does anyone know the name of the plastic shelf that runs the whole length of the bath that is fixed to the wall and acts as a caddy and splash back? We have a 1970's bathroom suite and this shelf has badly faded and I'm struggling to find anything even similar but I'm not sure of the search term I should be using.…
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Can I remove Half of Tree Stump that is in my garden?
Hi Folks, Looking for some advice here, we moved into to our new build house around 18 months ago and had a tree in the garden that resulted in our fence being out of line (Skewed) which meant we had a lot of land that was in accessible behind the fence. Apparently the neighbor at the back of the property didn't want the…
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Burnt food smell / problem
Ok so I had a nightmare on Monday. I left a pan on the hob full of chicken casserole for about two hours came home to a kitchen full is smoke and absolutely reeking. I have aired out the house as best I can and a lot of the smell has gone but it is still lingering in certain areas. Specifically the walls near my French…
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Painted patches with old wall paint and it stinks like musty old mop
Hi everyone, am at the end of my tenancy, so decided to patch up some stains left by my creative 3 year old. Nothing big just like 10 cm by 10 cm patches in a few places around the house, in total like 4-5 patches. I used an old can of paint that was left from the last time this house was painted, roughly in 2015 so 6…
