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What condition is this pebbledash render in?
Can someone tell me the condition of the pebbledash and life expectancy? Its cracked and come off near the door, and has probably been on for around 20 years old now. Would patch work work, or worth doing the whole building? There are exposed holes as well from where wires were previously nailed in it.
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Leaking Gutter DIY advice
Noticed a leak where gutter join is coming apart on our 2 floor victorian house, whats the best way to fix it if doing it myself? I have a ladder big enough. Thanks!
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Builders - how to find them?
We are looking for a builder to do a house extension, but haven’t had any luck so far. We've tried contacting several local builders, but none have shown any interest. It’s a lot of money at stake, so we want to make sure we choose someone reliable. I’m trying to figure out how to check if a builder is trustworthy. I've…
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Which trade would this be?
We've recently moved home. There's a small storage area in our living room which is plenty big enough inside to hold a dryer, and has a plug point. However, the door to the storage area is too narrow for our dryer to fit through. I want to get someone who can widen this door opening to the maximum possible, and install…
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Making good for new curtain poles
I am about to start decorating my bedroom. The curtain poles that were left by the predesessors were barely hanging on the wall. The walls are plasterboard. They have left me with a bit of a mess and I'm unsure how to make good and how to ensure I can get a good fixing for my own curtain poles. There are also a number of…
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Hooded Cowl on chimney. Why is this wrong?
Every year when I get chimney swept the chimney sweep gives me certificate saying he has done the work but marked 'Do not use with hooded cowl'. (Although he knows I am in fact using the chimney, burning wood and solid fuel.) Here is a picture of the cowl. It is only 20 years old, much newer than the house itself. Why is…
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Discontinued paint
Hi I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get some Laura Ashley Home paint in ‘Sage’ they don’t seem to have it anymore. They have s different sage colour. We ran out of paint & still have 2 walls to do. Any suggestions ? Many thanks 😊
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My water stopcock in the street has been sealed. Is this allowed?
My house has a stopcock in the front garden which was put in by a private plumber some years ago when we were extending - nothing to do with the water board. It has recently developed a leak. Another plumber was called in to mend it but he pointed out that we have no stopcock in the public road. There was one, I remember,…
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Cost for high end bathroom refurbishment
Hi, My family had a bathroom refurbished on our property, using an original design and two builders constructed the bathroom according to this design. There is now a freestanding bath and also a walk-in shower. Underfloor heating has been installed. The bath was moved from its previous position and, to accommodate the new…
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FRONT DOOR STEPS
Hi Folks I've had my front door steps put in recently. However, the guy who did the wok left a hole in the middle
of the steps. He said it was for ventilation. Is he correct? Do I need to put some sort of 'net' in
front of the hole to prevent flies etc from going into that hole? Thanks in advance for your responses.
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Extractor fan installation - do humidistat fans work well?
Hi there. I desperately need to fit an extractor fan in my bathroom - at the moment, we just keep opening the window, which is not really enough (we have started to get black mould, now that the weather has turned colder). I was just wondering whether had any experience of getting one with a humidistat - i.e. do they work…
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Gas flue in catio
I had a catio installed last year and my gas engineer this week says the roof is too close to the flue but he seemed unable to offer a solution apart from taking the polycarb roof off, which basically defeats the object of keeping the cats safe as they'd soon leg it. Engineer says a mesh roof can't be used instead…
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New smart water meter - boiler not working?
We had a new smart water meter fitted today (not by request, but I'm happy to have it). Just went to turn on the shower and no hot water, we had hot water this morning. The error code says 227, which is 'no flame signal detected' which seems to be a gas fault? Is it possible that a water meter change could have affected…
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Suitable electric hot water system
Hi, I am considering replacing an old vented hot water cylinder with a huge tank on top of it which is suppling a kitchen mixer tap 7 m away and 2x basin mixer taps in an all electric 2 bed apartment. The maximum hot water pressure to the kitchen mixer tap is ridiculously low at just over 2 lit/min and by the time the…
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How much should I be paying for having a water softener supplied and fitted?
I saved thousands getting advice from here when it came to getting windows. Went local instead of one of the national chains. When it comes to water softeners. I'm seeing units online for £500 to £800 but when I called up a couple people, prices ranged from £2,000 to £5,000! For context, I live in a 2 bedroom house with 1…
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Setting up a Tapo C310 camera To record 24/7 to a local HDD
Forgive me if the terminology is quaint, as I'm new to this Tech. The camera is, apparently ONVF and RTSP capable, and rather that writing over and over to the internal SD Card, I thought it might be possible for me to set it to record to a disk in the house. In my fantasy world, I envisioned a powered disk plugged in to…
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Tradesman
What are your experience with tradesman, especially when you need the work done and have to pay 30% upfront so they can hold your place (??) and things keep changing before the work has even started.
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Why does my new toilet smell?
Hi - hoping someone can provide some advice.... Back in January we had a water leak underneath our downstairs toilet and a company came to rip out the toilet/dig down and stop the leak. The toilet was a wall hung WC with the cistern behind some boxing. At the time, the company advised us to fit a back-to-wall toilet, as it…
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hot and cold water pipes in ventialed crawl space?? freezing risk
Hi My plumber needs to install new hot and cold water pipes to feed a kitchen in a new extension (Manchester, UK). The plumber has suggested the easiest way is to run about 8m of the pipes in the ventilated crawl space under our existing house before coming up beside the new kitchen. They'd be attached to the underside of…
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Concrete outside walls - paint?
Hi all I have various concrete walls outside - all concrete blocks and rendered with plain concrete, they look in good condition. I'd like to paint them so they're not quite so oppressively grey, but I'm having a hard time finding suitable paint - searches bring me driveway paint or extremely expensive outdoor-suitable but…
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