rendering

hi just looking for some advise. We had a conservatory built two years ago. We applied for planning which we later found out our neighbour had disputed although it was passed upon two regulations. First we had to kept to the correct sizes (which reduced our build considerably) and secondly the...

Hi Guys, We've had issues with penetrating damp for a while (Roof replaced, guttering, chimney pointing/lined to try and fix it). Basically there are water streaks running from the top of one wall in the bedroom. I've had advice from the roof guys who came back to check the roof (which they...

HI FOLKS NEED SOME ADVICE ON EXTERIOR RENDERING OF A VICTORIAN HOUSE. I VE CURRENTLY GOT SOMEONE RENDERING THE HOUSE. ORIGINALLY THEY SAID THEY WOULD STRIP BACK THE HOUSE TO BRICKWORK BUT HAVE STOPPED SHORT AND LEFT SOME OF THE OLD RENDERING ON THE WALL SAYING THAT IT WAS SOLID AND BY REMOVING...

When I moved house 2 years ago, I wanted to wire a couple of rooms up with ethernet. One of the rooms was my man cave, which is part of an extension that was done long before I moved. I decided I would need to run the cables through the attic to the man cave, but there was a problem; the brick...

Hello, I am looking for a bit of help with a tanking project. I have a small storage area under the front steps (apx 6ft x 3ft), which is mostly below ground level (I expect it’s the old coal storage area since the house is a Victorian terrace). We have had some problems with water ingress and a...

Hello so I've got a future project I'm going to be doing with me and some mates, I have a shed that we're gonna do up and we're looking for advice? Now I'm fairly competent with the electrical side of things so that's not a issue. Here's some photos now my granddads a builder but he said he...

Hi there, Just moved into a new house,a semi detached and it needs work. Part of which is addressing the cracked and broken render around the base of the house . See image below. In some sections the brickwork is exposed. Obviously it needs repaired, but just how serious is this?How would you...

We're slowly restoring our fireplace so it's bare brick! What do you lot think is best to plug the gap around the fireplace from where we removed the original breast plaster? Will bonding coat do the job? Cheers!

Hi all, While attempting to strip wallpaper in my 1912 built Edinburgh flat, chunks of the plaster started coming away. After finishing stripping I thought I'd clean up the missing plaster and attempt to patch it, but then whole slices of the plaster were coming off. So I pulled it all down. It...

I have removed a chimney breast from ground and first floor and wondering what to do next (and yes, it has been properly supported in the loft). House is end of terrace as is the wall where said chimney once stood so my plan is: - use some expanding foam to block the flues at the top, perhaps...

I have a 1960s chalet style house with a stone chimney positioned at the front middle. A few years ago I noticed water staining down the outside of the chimney and realised that every time it rained, there was dripping down the inside of the chimney from multiple places and onto the soffits...

Hi, im hoping someone can shed some light on my new proposed extension. We have planning in at the moment for a 2 storey large extension (front to back) and the planner has phoned my technician to say she wont be approving the scheme because of scale and it being out of character with the...

Hi, we are a Landscaping company based in East London. We installed raised flower beds in a project in August/September of last year. The beds were constructed of concrete blocks, rendered and paint white with an external matt paint. However, 2-3 months after the installation our customer...

Hi there, We've looking at repainting the rendering on our cottage as it hasn't been done in a while, but am unsure of what to use to fill and chips or holes in it. I'm not really sure of what the rendering is - it's a brick cottage, with a render on the bottom half of the house, which has been...

I'm a HO seeking advice re. some rendering underway at my home. On the one side Weber has been used which we are happy with. On the other side they used a K Rend (I think perhaps there was a Weber supply problem though this wasn't discussed with us). The K Rend is a completely different colour...

I need to paint the outside of our house. The problem is that we have a ground floor extension that wraps around the back and side of the house, similar to this house (not mine!) How can I get access to the first floor external wall? House with rear extension by r_c posted 7 Jul 2016 at 8:32 PM

I could do with some advice on how to deal with my side of a garden wall that I've twice attempted to improve, decorwise! It's 7-8m long and approx 2m high with expansion gap half way along; 9" thick with a course of engineering soldiers along the top. In the past, I have rendered it and this...

Hi all, My first post here but just wanted some advice on a project I've started. I'm doing our hall, stairs and landing at the moment (at last after 19 years in the house), taking off the old woodchip has resulted in much of the plaster coming away as well, it was the original crumbly lime...

Hi all, I am a fairly able DIY-er, but new to landscaping generally. I want to build a rendered raised bed in my garden, and I was thinking of using breeze blocks, three courses high, with a wooden bench built in to the front. What I am unsure of, is if breeze blocks are the best material...

Morning all. I have a 1930 3-Bedroom Bungalow, built from Norfolk Reds. The brickwork is extremely scruffy, it has had alterations over the years where non-matched bricks were used and there are various other faults that are simply too much to do anything else with. As much as I hate to say it...