brickwork

I have an old chimney stack up from the kitchen and through to the bathroom. The kitchen stack part has already been removed (before we moved in), the bathroom stack is still there, not ventilated and was - i think - responsible for a big damp patch coming out on the adjoining bedroom wall. I...

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. I’ve had a good look through all the posts but can’t find anything that matches my problem. I have a 5m x 2.5m single skin brick detached garage with an apex tiled roof. The garage sits on a concrete block foundation which is at the top of a fairly steep garden and public footpath. One side...

Recently I bought an upstairs flat. It has a very small yard out back (see photo) which was previously used only to store the wheelie bins. I would like to try to do something to make use of the outside space. The plan is to clean up the concrete with a pressure washer, add hanging baskets...

Hi there, I'm concerned about some building work I've had done and thought I'd get some public (and hopefully expert) opinion on it. I've removed an internal wall to make my bathroom bigger at the cost of my bedroom. Unfortunately there was a window effectively spanning that wall. So I've had...