flood

Hi, We had a big flash flood and a hole has opened up in the floor at the edge of the house -outside (see photos). Luckily no water entered the house. Two of our block paving bricks seem to have disappeared down the hole (house was built in 1987) Any thoughts on how I should repair? Should I be...

Hi all, I’m looking for advice on a particularly tricky situation we’re having with our cellar (end of terrace 1880s Victorian house). We moved in 7 years ago and although everything in the cellar was slightly raised (insinuating there may have been previous flooding), we didn’t have any...

Hi, Asking on behalf of my mother.. Her 1930s house has an air raid shelter underneath the back lounge. There is even a small trapdoor under the lounge carpet and a sloped wall so the occupants could slide into the shelter in an emergency (never tried the slide myself as it is steep!) There is...

Hello, New slabs and patio was installed last year. It has been OK until this summer where it seems that some slabs have sinked creating a small area of the patio (below the table, in the pics) that now gets flooded when there is medium rain (very often where we are!). Trader is clearly rogue...

Hello. I've got an LG F1296TDA front loading washing machine. Bought in October 2013, no problems until today. By sheer chance, I walked in today just as the drum filled with water. Water then emerged from the drawer where the washing powder goes. Literally pouring out. If I hadn't turned the...

Hi, I'm trying to find out if it is possible to lower my conservatory floor level as it is 50mm higher than the rest of the ground floor. Im not sure what the floor base is made of, its a solid black/grey material, asphalt or concrete maybe? How deep could this layer usually be and could I...

Hoping for some advice on what has become a nightmare lawn. Last summer my lawn - although uneven - was something I was fairly proud of. I'd fertilised it, laid a few new rolls of turf to the left and got rid of the moss and weeds. It looked like this: This snow and rain this year though...

Neighbour's kitchen drainage pipes routinely fall apart emptying a few loads every day of dishwasher, washing machine, kitchen sink water onto a paved path in their garden. The water floods their path and lays against our garden wall and is no doubt causing some damage and is certainly eroding...

Hi there, We are going through the planning process to convert our dairy into an annexe but have been told by Snowdonia National Park Authority that we need a flood risk assesment. We are next to a tiny river but it has never flooded anywhere near the dairy. This is what they have said, I...

My Smeg DI6012 dishwasher is driving me mad with error E1; it takes upwards of 30 attempts to get it to complete a cycle without this error being given - yet the drip tray and float are bone dry. If I depress the float under very (very) light pressure there is an audible "click" and the same...

I have a hole in a ceiling from a water leak. See image below. Ruler is 30cm. What would you suggest to fix? Would you patch in the flaps or artex and paint, and try and make it invisible, after repairing the split between the plaster board? Or perhaps skim over the entire ceiling with plaster...