building advice

Hi everyone, I removed the timber and the wood around my front door as they were badly rotten. I'm aiming to fit a sapele hardwood (photo attached) I'm not confident how I can fix it so it doesn't get loose over time since people will step on it. The previous timber were snug fit into...

Hello, I'm looking to remove a timber studded wall between the kitchen and dining room. The house is an old timber structure with concrete in the middle seperating the semi detached structure. This is not a load berring wall - the joists run the opposite way. A load berring wall had double...

Searched a lot on the internet, but the regs don't see overly detailed in explaining the answers to my queries. I have a 1960s built 3 bed house which is on a generous corner plot, the hillside is wrapped around the house making the front a two storey home and the back more like a single storey...

Hi All, Just carrying out a diy project of installing new casement window where old wooden sash window was. I am confused regarding 2 points. Firstly the old wooden sash frames had vertical DPC pinned into the frame and pushed into the cavity. Would I need to replace this with UPVC casement...

Hello everyone. I'm buying a 1950s detached house and my level 3 survey report highlighted
 an issue with the porch. I'm a FTB so any advice would be greatly appreciated. There is a porch addition to the front of the property which is made from brick with a pitched tiled roof. It has timber...

Hi, I am looking to remove this non-loadbearing single skin brick wall between the kitchen and dinning room. As you can see from the pictures the wall does not have any joists bearing on it. My main concern is do I have to leave a nib on the external wall side to help support the external...

Been cleaning/restoring our uPVC window frames. Noticed that the sill was loose so removed it to give it a proper clean. Underneath is a gap in the capping whcih doesn’t look right to me. Imagined that this should run right underneath. The seams of the window frames/seals were sealed with...

We are in the process of buying a property and this seems to be a problem raised by a surveyor and we would like to resolve it. The extension was built on the main building but the joint bricks do not align. After speaking with a builder been told this is not possible. As bricks are sticking...

Hello, I am a FTB and offer has been accepted already. During the building survey, the cracks have been mentioned in the report and I am not sure how severe this is and how much this would affect in terms of cost and the structure of the property, safeness, etc. Two storey extension towards the...

Hello! I am a new homeowner and completely lost in the dark. I have noticed some spalled brickwork at the bottom of my side wall. No damp on the inside, think they’re just old and weathered. Any advice? Do they need to be removed? Or could I get away with repointing and the getting render on...

I have had Puro Construction on site doing the repointing on this 1920s building, it does not look right, can someone please advise we are in a dire situation with them at the moment

Hi, We've had our chimney breast opening widened (probably a brick wider than the builders opening) and the lintel replaced with a stronger one and moved higher up at the front. Some of the brickwork needed to be cut out. Is our chimney flue and the second/third row of bricks supported by the...