wall

I live in an 1950s ex local authority house with walls that are made of what appears to be aggregate mixed with concrete and I need advice on drilling. It’s not smooth pebblecrete as I would call it as it is lumpy stones of approx 20mm+ across loosely glued together with a sheen on concrete...

Selco Paris Matt stuff, so 15mm MDF. Presumably I clamp panels and screw from inside carcass outwards into end clad panels, but no screws provided. No recommended clad fixing hole positions indicated on inside of carcass. What edge distances are recommended? Only a 16mm void so trying to lose...

Not sure which forum is right for this - happy for mods to move it as needed... I have coaxial cables from a sat dish entering the ground floor of my house in two places, neither of which is where I want - so I plan to move or remove them. Looking from outside, both cable ingress points have a...

My wife and I are about to complete on our first home this week. We are looking to completely redecorate the whole house and one of the things we have been looking at doing is widening the space between the two rooms picture below. I wasn't able to get much information out of the seller...

Hey Guys. So I did have a question up on another part of the forum and uploaded content and pictures there. But i have decided to start a new thread, to make it easier to see and see my mistakes. Here goes. The Mrs wanted to change the flat, and have a space for her plants where the cat does...

Or possibly, does anyone make them at all these days? My wall units are a bit tired but I have limited headroom, the sheds all seem to only have quite tall wall units. Can someone point me at a source for shorter units? Cheers, Dain

I'm in the process of removing wallpaper from the living room so we can re-wallpaper. Doing so, I've discovered a 1-2cm line running horizontally along the wall, about 1/4 of the way down - does anyone know what this could be?

First post so bear with me. We’ve recently moved into this house and have decided we want to knock down the wall that separates the bathroom from the toilet. It’s and ex council house on the end of a terrace. There is no wall below it, in the loft you can see the plastererboard then there is a...

Should a strip of the existing screed be cut back down to the concrete base before building the new blockwork up, or just build the new blockwork up on top of the screed?

Hello all, I've ordered some blinds from Blinds2Go which require selfi-fitting. I live in a new build property and the window frame, to my basic knowledge and basic exploratory skills (drilling a couple of holes) leads me to believe that there is 15mm plasterboard with around a 10mm gap...

As you'll see from the below pictures, my cooking hob has an extractor fan. What the kitchen installers failed to do (before I owned the house) was to install a pipe and a vent from the extractor fan hood. This obviously leads to undesirable problems when cooking, more noticeably in the winter...

Hi, I'm a novice building a small natural stone (Cotswold) wall with recessed seating – c. 4m long wall, double skin. I have about 200 stones, various shapes, sizes. My plan is to do footing, then get cracking. My questions are: 1.Which mortar do I use? I want it to be light coloured to...

Hi I'm running a drain through the footing walls and i'm stuck on the section of the building regs that states "openings masked with rigid material and around the pipe should be compressible". Rigid Board I've heard people mention cement board but will this not perish after a few years sat in...

On a wall side where a 42inch TV screen will sit on a table there is only the one double wall electrical socket, yes, you'd think there'd be more than this on that wall but there isn't, and it has to go on that side, but anyway here's the question lol. As I'll be having a TV, router, TV Box...

Hi I have knocked a small extension down to make way for a new one although it's revealed a concerning broken support/brickwork under an existing lintel which bridges the opening between the house and extension. This bearing is only about 100mm. I was considering, acrow propping the lintels...

I'm sure this has been posted but after searching through all the archives i'm still a little unsure. I'm building a ground level deck 3x6m in a yard surrounded by 4 brick walls, the ground is currently just mud and clay soil under that. I'm just a little unsure of the footings, mainly because...

Hi, looking for some advice for a bathroom wall that needs tiling. Top half of the wall is wallpaper on flat decent plaster, the bottom half was tiled. When I’ve taken the tile off there’s a lot of cement like material (possibly old adhesive). This is around 1/2” tick, more in places and...

Hi I need to rebuild an area of rear wall on the rear of our Victorian house due to it bowing at the top. The wall is brick built and I need to take it down by c. 15 brick courses. As the wall will be hidden internally by a rear bedroom and hallway it doesn’t necessarily need to be rebuilt...

Hi Guys, I am going to be installing a CCTV system on my property this week, though i have been skeptical on how to hide the wiring on the external brick wall. I do not want to recess the wires into to wall or through the cavity. I would just prefer to cable clip the wires on the brick wall...

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...