building

Hello all, Thank you in advance for any advice provided, here goes. We have recently purchased an 1870 Herefordshire red brick cottage which was extended from 2 to 4 bedrooms in about 1977. As part of the extention they removed the pitched roof at the rear of the property and increased the...

I am having a room re-plastered in a house I am renovating for rental. The plaster is old and has been taken back to brick. The exposed brickwork now shows an unusual arrangement around the window. To my untrained eye, it looks like a previous owner has attempted to reduce the size of the frame...

Hi Everyone, New to the forum and about to buy my first house. This house has a conservatory with no seperation from the main house. So the whole of the ground floor back wall has been removed. Anyway, one side of the conservatory is a dwarf wall and uPVC DG windows which look out onto the...

Hi all, I'm an established gas engineer/plumber and have recently gone into business with the only decent builder I have worked with. We have a decent volume of work but we're looking to expand, and want to get a number of crews on the go at once. As such, we need to get a decent amount of...

Hi, I'm renovating my house and decided to replace the floor joists as they were bouncing. They were also rotten in my other room. I'm going to insulate in between them all and relay new floorboards. There was a lot of debris (sand, rubble etc) below the floor with I have cleared out. All the...

Hi All I have a quick question and I would like to hear your thoughts! Is there a good way to fix this issue / patch it up, rather than removing the drywall and replacing? The previous owners tried to fit a net curtain. Unfortunately the top part of the plasterboard failed. The top corner...

Help! Been in my house for 6 months now, guy that owned it before knocked out a supporting wall down stairs to open it up, stuck an RSJ in to support wall above, BUT he's put one rsj full width of the house, but hes sat it on another RSJ thats sitting on both the chimney stacks! Making both...

Hi Can anyone give me any idea what would be best to change a door to a window. Its a old concrete house old pit house and the door is approx 3ft the old door was wood. Do I clover the gap with wood or brick with cavity?

Sorry to bother, I found your names on other threads relating to the same topic. I would like to convert my plot of land with 3 garages into a 2 or 3 bedroom house. However, I have I think a covenant from the seller which would not allow me to build. it states that one cannot use it for any...

Hi, New to the forum, so be patient. Since the rain has been non-stop for the last 3-4 months, the ground floor of the gable end of the house has started to develop damp patches at roughly head height at sporadic areas. This is pretty frustrating due to the fact we recently put a new kitchen...

Hi all, We are getting plans drawn up for a ground floor extension to our kitchen and dining room, with a lean-to roof. Because of the extension depth (4m) and roof angle this will clash with the bottom of the window on one of our upstairs bedrooms. A few of our neighbours have similar...