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Full Garden Renovation – Upstairs Neighbor's part …. How to deal with it?
I bought a leasehold flat in London recently. I have one neighbour upstairs (renting from
housing association), super lovely family living. The property has a large rear garden, both
parties have access via a spiral staircase. I own the front half of the garden, the rear half
belongs to the upstairs neighbors. Their part…
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Damp exterior wall
Hi, we’ve recently moved into a property which was extended shortly before our purchase. I’ve noticed that the exterior wall of the extension seems to have a patch of damp brickwork (to the right hand side of the window in the picture) - it’s particularly obvious during heavy rain, but even during dry periods the brickwork…
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issue with saniflo & apparently incompetant plumber
My mother has been having problems with her saniflo the first issue was around spring 2021 when the pump would not turn off she had to call round 5 plumbers before she found one about 30 miles away willing to work with saniflos - she was correctly advised to remove the fuse to stop the saniflo from pumping until the…
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Anyone considered an electric boiler?
I'm just trying (and struggling) to decide whether it's worth upgrading the ancient storage heaters and massive water tank in a small 1 bed flat (one bathroom and 3-4 storage heaters) obviously I'd lose the storage aspect and benefits on economy 7 electricity. However, I would be able to get proper radiators a thermostatic…
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Pay Back Insurance Cash Settlement
We had a water leak, it warped some flooring etc. took a cash settlement, but have yet to get around to booking in someone to do the work. In the meantime, our situation has changed, and would ideally like to sell the house. Do I need to phone up my insurance company and pay the settlement back if we sell the house without…
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Worrying gap on front door. What is happening?
We have a small holiday cottage, 200 or so years old, timber built, in pretty good nick. In 2015 we had the old UPVC windows replaced along with the front door. A month later we had the outside re-rendered. All was well until about a year or so ago, when a little gap began to appear down the hinge side of the front door,…
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Retrofitting window locks
Hi, I just discovered that a clause has appeared in our home insurance stipulating that all our “accessible” windows must have “a key operated multi-point locking system” or “at least one key operated locking device”. Unfortunately we have a couple of fairly old (outward opening) uPVC windows that aren’t currently…
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Faulty freezer - American fridge freezer
We have a Beko ASD241 American fridge freezer which we’ve had for seven years. Still using it whilst kitchen is being done up. Came down to see a warning about temperature. Fridge is nice and cold. Freezer - well everything was defrosting or melting. I’ve cleared out the freezer. Some small ice crystals on the back wall…
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Plumbing advice
Hi all, Next job for our house renovation is our en suite and separate small toilet, so was going to tackle the small toilet first. I've not done bathrooms or plumbing before in terms of replacing suites etc, so these are hopefully quite basic issues.... As you can see from the photo below, there is a pretty hideous…
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Solar panel quote
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DIYable to plasterboard porch?
We are fairly newbie DIYers but already learning a lot and one of the upcoming projects we have is to sort out our porch. It is a 60cm deep porch, originally open (as evidenced by other houses on the road) but ours has been doored over with a door+side light configuration. So the inside front door is a completely clear…
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Laminate Touching Wall – An Issue?
Hi all, During the last winter months, we’d laid out new laminate flooring. However, now the spring months are bringing warmer temperatures, I think some of the laminate has expanded. We laid laminate around some tiles around our fireplace, leaving a less than suggested expansion gap. A few mm in places. However, around…
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Moved: Who to contact when having problems with Wren Kitchens?
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Wickes "Cure HouseBarressment" more like double it and the stress with it.
Afternoon All I have searched for other posts see if anyone been in similar situation but could not find anything, so apologise if I missed any info on this. Long story short as I have every detail noted but too long for this post :# So purchased kitchen from Wickes (2nd in 7 years new one due to house renovation) August…
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Insert wall to seperate kitchen diner room into kitchen and then seperate diner approx cost
Hi Anyone built an internal wall to seperate the kitchen / diner into kitchen and then seperate dining room. Approx cost for 8 foot length by 7 foot height. How cost to do the job bricks / plaster etc? Thanks
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Temperature trouble with new thermostatic bath/shower mixer tap
I've just had one of these fitted along with a new bath and it's really causing me grief! I understand the left-hand dial controls the flow rate. The right-hand dial controls the temperature and there's a button to press if you want it go above 38 celsius. However so far I have only be able to achieve two temperatures:…
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What sort of roof tile is this?
What sort of roof tile is the grey/black one pictured below and would I be right in thinking it's different to the second image which shows what I currently have on my roof? The builder wants to use the grey tile below for the extension but it looks like a completely different type.
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Bulbs needing frequent replacement
Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. I am having issues with bulbs all across the property except one bedroom. In the past 6 months, I had to replace others between 2-3 times.It's an electric only flat, converted from commercial building in 2011. I had got the property inspected with an electrical engineer back in 2020, and…
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Boiler drops pressure quickly
New WB combi boiler fitted a couple of months ago. Over the past few weeks, it loses pressure intermittently. I checked on Saturday lunchtime and it was fine at 1.2 bar. Checked Monday evening and it was now 0.2 bad. I have to top it up every infrequently (less than once a week, more than fortnightly). Waiting for plumber…
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Another hedge question - DIY removal or pay professional?
Short version: Is removing a large privet hedge a DIY job? Or better left to the specialists with all the gear. Long version: We want to replace a hedge with a lower fence. Justification - it is sickly, sits in deep shade, doesn’t thrive, gives little privacy and takes a good foot out of our side path making access to our…
