wall

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...

Hi all, I am hoping to get some advice on how water ingress/roof leak detection surveys work. Have anyone had one before and what would be their review? My feeling is that they will just identify lots of things and say it could be any of them, but likely not actually be able to give any...

Hi all, I have recently had some issues with water ingress coming from my outside wall, creating patches of damp coming through onto my inside wall. We have now had the outside all completely fixed (re-rendering, repointing, ...), however, the damp patches do not seem to be going down after a...

We live in an 1850's house constructed of solid ~1m thick solid stone walls. The pictures show residual damage caused by a leak, which is now fully resolved, today the wall is not damp. However, as per the pictures there continues to be some kind of reactions going on in the wall causing paint...

What thickness tile backer board for stud wall with stud spacing at 600mm?

Hi, Someone posted something similar a few years ago with no response. I bought some ceramic house number tiles (very similar to image attached). I need to attach the tiles to the wall of my house. The wall has roughcasting (aka harling or pebbledash). Should I cut a rectangle out of the...

Hi all, I'd like to renew the patio joint where it butts up to house wall. It's variable in depth, maybe 4inches max. What is the best compound to use? What is there now appears to be concrete but maybe it's mortar like the rest of the patio joints but looks more grey to me. I was going to...

I have a half wall on my landing that I would like to knock down and replace with a landing rail. It use to be the wall/entrance to a bedroom before the bathroom was installed upstairs and a new door way added. I was thinking to tackle myself by just knocking of plaster and removing with hand...

Hello! I have this hole in the side of the upstairs bathroom, some kind of previous ventilation. I used expanding foam last year and covered with plasterboard but birds pecked it out and made a nest. Birds now gone and looking for a more permanent fix. What should I use to fill this hole? Do I...

I have been trying to figure this out for quite a while. I have had an issue where my internal wall to a cupboard is quite damp but no other external walls are. Underneath the skirting board seems to be crumbling and there are quite deep holes in the wall. It looks like the outside of the wall...

Living room has a 3m long freezing cold external wall, brick with zero insulation. It’s free of windows, doors, and power outlets, a completely blank wall except massive new split system installed up high. I don’t want to move the slit system. I’m thinking about building a half-height “wall”...

Hello all, Thanks for taking the time to view my forum post! I'm posting on behalf of my aunty who lives in an end-of-terrace approx 1940s built property. They and their neighbour both have this damp and it has spread over many months. Please could you advise is this rising damp and what the...

Hello, I am currently replacing my garage door. I would like a door and a window There is a part which divides the window and the door, there is a column and I’m wondering how I can make a column from 4 inch concrete block. The width of the column is the width of the concrete block, and I’m not...

Hello I am currently converting my garage and replacing the garage door with a window and a the door. I have finish the foundation. I called up merchants to make an order for blocks and bricks etc…. He asked me which block, thermo lite or concrete block? I am not sure. I am going to...

Hello, I'm looking to understand how I can fill a hole in the side of my house. The part of the house with the hole was built in the 1860 so is made up of very thick walls and stone. The hole itself is approx 30cm and about meter deep, and has steel all the way through the hole (which I assume...

Hi all. Shower is leaking into downstairs when water is being aimed at wall . All sealant has been redone on outside and between shower tray and wall at the bottom on inside , can’t spot any leakages here. It runs down the wall downstairs beneath shower in lines , when water is sprayed at the...

I bought some Rhino Shelves a while ago for my bedroom for books. They are all level and built correctly but the seem to wobble. It was suggested to to me to buy some brackets to anchor them to the wall to stop this. I would need to drill holes in the shelves and then the concrete wall. Its...

Hi, I'm renovating my upstairs bathroom and have taken the walls back the the brick, and replaced the ceiling with PIR + new plasterboard. I will be replacing the existing floorboards with 18mm plywood but I'm unsure whether I should: 1. Plasterboard the walls, then underfloor plumbing, then...

Before you read on.. join me in laughter at my awful attempt of a “drawing” obviously my architectural skills are flawless. I hope this makes sense. It does in my head but that’s not always a helpful thing Initially we were repairing a wall going down into the basement. The wall has a 2...

We have an extension that's about 16-20 years old that has just had a white chalk like substance appear pretty much all over the front of the extension. It is just like chalk when I touch it. Anyone any idea that this is? And how I get rid of it? Thank you