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The recent wind ripped off the trim to one of our windows and revealed a 15mm gap between the top of the window frame and the soldier course above. This is a 1960s house with cavity. Sticking a ruler in shows the gap goes to the back of the brick and hits what I assume is a poured concrete...

I think our designer is just putting us in touch, not managing it, maybe he gets a finder's fee (which of course I will end up paying) I really don't know. However it doesn't matter as the builders aren't communicating. I'm a big fan of DIY, I can drive a digger, got the electrics city and...

We’ve been told by our designer £2k per sq meter, East Midlands. We did get a single quote out of the five outfits we had round and he was closer to £3k m2.

This was during lock-down, and I put it on the back burner for a bit too long as when I went back to him to get it sorted he had gone out of business, set up again as another ltd company, and behaved as if he'd never met me. So I thought sod this, I've paid for the plans and put a full...

We're in process of replacing a conservatory (which had planning permission) with a proper extension, and our application for prior consent was knocked back as it touched a piece of the house which had been also been extended. Some 50% rule, quite surprised us really as we were not extending...

Hi, We're looking at an extension and want to keep the walls as thin as possible. Why use expensive stuff (unilin is 0.021W/mK) when it is hardly any better than bog standard PIR (0.022W/mK)? Is using standard PIR with a 10mm gap a real challenge to build with? Cheers