mystery

Mystery hole in partywall. While lifting some floorboards near the main entrance to our home I found a small hole on the party wall side. A bricks width and height in size, filled with loose stone, the likes of which I have not encountered in the rest of the building. I could reach into the...

Hi, My neighbours above me have an immersion and whenever they use hot water, this noise has plagued my flat as well as the flats below me and above them. Their plumber can't seem to fix it or identify the fault. It's such a loud noise that you can hear it over the TV, in every room of the flat...

We’ve just bought a 1930’s semi which is double glazed, but by the looks of things some older aluminium secondary glazing remains. We’re going to take that out, but what are these blocks with holes in between the double and secondary glazing? I assume some sort of thermal bridging? Thanks in...

Hello all. I’ve joined this group to see if anyone has experienced or seen anything similar before. I have water/a leak/perhaps rain coming in to my bathroom that is affecting one corner wall. The bottom and top of the tiled skirting is wet to look at as if the grout has never dried fully, and...

Hi hope somebody can help! We've had our open system boiler upgraded to a Viessmann Vitodens 050 combi back in August last year. When we had the heating on the first time in November when the thermostat was set to 20℃. After giving birth and having parents coming from the far east to help out...

In doing various (smalish) jobs on the house, I've discovered a few 'funnies' presumably from when the house was constructed 72 years ago. - Partition wall between bathroom and bedroom built with bricks on their sides - Concrete fence post used as lintel - Metal advertising board (circa 1940s)...

Hi there, Currently refitting our kicthen and unsure if I need to keep this mystery switch. Tracking the network cable it definitely has something to do with our BFT gate but no idea what.... We have a physical switch to open and shut it together with gate fobs and then this switch. Gate came...

i recently found and fixed a leaking toilet cistern inlet. It was dripping onto a chipboard floor inside a boxed in section behind the toilet. It was probably dripping for a year. The floor began to dry out but one side stayed wet. I put a fan heater up to the hole where the toilet pipe goes...

So I saw this in a magazine at work today: Jacarta Current Clamp by eveares posted 25 Sep 2017 at 8:57 PM The PDF on it is here: http://www.jacarta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Jacarta-intelliAmp-2016.pdf Apparently, it can measure power and current by simply clipping it over an active and...

For the past few weeks, we have had one of two socket circuits tripping about once a day, including at night and day, in all weathers. The wiring is by no means new, but the consumer unit was installed only 2 years ago and the wiring fully checked. There are a few clear indications of 'DIY'...

I've just bought a house and I've discovered that the basement, which is a lot smaller than the area of the house, seems to be entirely built of hollow walls. I've also noticed parts of the ground floor which aren't over the basement flex quite a lot, considering I'd expect something like...