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Neighbours Extension - Planning Permission advice
Can anyone please give me some advise my aunt received an letter last week from the council saying that the neighbour has asked for planning permission ( prior approval ) to extend on the back of their property . It is the size of the extension which is an concern , it is a mid terrace ex council house but the application…
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Second Bathroom Fail - who/how can I claim?
In November 2018 water started pouring from my bathroom shower into the kitchen below. Long story short, we made an insurance claim and after waiting a while due to Covid the repair was completed. We purchased a stone resin shower tray from Victoria Plumbing and paid by credit card. All the work was carried out by a local…
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B&q cutting service
How everyone! I'm planning on doing a DIY shaker style kitchen using MDF for the paneling. I hear b&q cut free of charge up to 15cuts. I haven't measured how many different cuts I'll need but it's definitely more than 15! (4 per door plus 1 for the draw) I've roughly guessed around 94 strips (multiple sizes) I got a lot of…
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Do I need permission to move back door?
Hi there, do I need to get building regs/planning permission to remove an external door? I currently have a door leading straight into my kitchen on the side of the house (which acts as the "back" door), and I want to brick this up to remodel my kitchen. I have a conservatory with a door leading outside (which locks), and…
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Kitchen drawers damage
I have had building work at my house for the past few months. The kitchen I wanted to keep so protected it putting some sheets over the units. Today I took the sheets off and noticed some damage on the units. Any idea what has caused this? Water damage?
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New home leak
Hi all, looking for some advice on what this possible leak could be? We moved into this property on Friday, survery did not flag anything about possible leak/damp. We noticed the corner of the room had a leak stain, which continued to get worse throughout the week. We got a roofer over to take a look and the roof is…
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What is the most efficient way to run wet underfloor heating?
We bought a house last year, which has: Downstairs: wet underfloor heating, with analogue, non-programmable thermostats on the walls of the three rooms. Upstairs: radiators with thermostatic radiator valves. The whole system is run off a combi boiler, and a single programmable timer unit for absolutely everything - either…
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Water bonding - new built property
We are getting an EV charger installed in our property and one of the requirement from EV charging company is to show evidence if water supply is bonded. The main supply that comes from outside is via a blue plastic pipe which then connects to a copper pipe with a main water stop of our property. The other requirement was…
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Is this small piece of brick in a wall acceptable?
On a friends recent conservatory he was wondering if this small brick in the middle would weaken the wall.
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Is our house moving?
Hi, moved into our 1930s semi last month and started to strip the walls today in the hall / stairs. There seems to be a noticeable gap between the staircase and the wall (hip side). I'm worried this wall may be moving and has came away from the staircase. You might not see from the pictures, but the gap at the bottom of…
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Tradespeople underestimated job; pay extra?
We have decorators in doing a job that was too big/awkward for us to tackle ourselves. They quoted us for the job but have underestimated by ~3 days. The flooring fitting is booked for next week and we're fast running out of time so we've picked up the paint brushes to help out. They're nice people, we're repeat customers…
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Freelance designer for Diy-kitchens
HiI would like to order a new kitchen from diy-kitchens.com, used their design tool but don't want to take responsibility for the design in case I miss something . Can I get a freelance designer somewhere to help me to order ? I tried Wren ,Magnet and Howdens but they don't send plans nowdays, just 3D images . Also won't…
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Wifi boosting for EV charger
Hi, Looking for a bit of advice. I've ordered an electric cat, and am getting a home electric vehicle charger installed to the front of my house. However, I've read that for in order for it to work with all the features (timed charging especially), I need a WiFi connection at the charger. The charger is to be positioned at…
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BEDS.CO.UK
Anyone shop from here before? Looking on their website, they seem to be significantly cheaper than most other places and have good Trust Pilot scores. I had a friend who ordered a bed from there. He was decently happy but his Ottoman was missing parts (he didn't bother chase it up). On a separate matter, can anyone…
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Difficult Co-freeholder
Hi, any advice would be appreciated-I own a leasehold flat with 50% share the freehold with the ground floor and there are just 2 flats in the house. I had rotten joists diagnosed on the floor of my kitchen by a structural engineer (SE) and the joint freeholder was involved in this consultation and in that meeting we…
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Automated thermostat / heating
I’ve quite a large and old house in Newcastle, where the combination of sash windows, size, and location mean it costs a lot to heat. I’m working on getting permission to replace the old single-glazed sash windows with double-glazed ones, but as it’s listed, it’s going to take some time. It has a conventional boiler with…
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Get Kutchenhaus to design, then just buy from DIYkitchens?
Hi all, we've had a design done from Kutchenhaus, but it's expensive. Is there any reason we shouldn't just copy the design out onto the DIYkitchens planner, and order from there? Not actually done it yet because the planner looks like it'll take a bit of time to get right, but by the looks of their prices it should come…
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Stainless steel cooker backsplash
Hello I have a plain stainless steel backsplash 600mm x 700mm behind my cooker. Unfortunately it looks like the previous owner cleaned it with brillo pads !! and is scratched from top to bottom. What is the best way to sort this. Unfortunately I am not sure how it is fixed to the wall. Is it difficult for someone to remove…
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Honeywell thermostat drops to 5 degrees
I noticed my heating had switched off - set at 20.5 degrees I checked the digital display and it was reading 5 degrees and would not respond to my pressing the ^ button so I set it at manual which read 20 degree for two seconds then the numbers cascaded all the way to 5 degrees. I put it back to auto and it read 20.5 for…
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overcharged by electrician
Good afternoon Our EV charger suddenly stopped working so we rang a local electrician. In the meantime I had done a lot of research and thought the likely cause was the RCD within the charger which was a common fault on the rolec charger which costs about £20 to buy plus fitting which would take less than an hour to fit…
