wall

Hi, I'm a novice building a small natural stone (Cotswold) wall with recessed seating – c. 4m long wall, double skin. I have about 200 stones, various shapes, sizes. My plan is to do footing, then get cracking. My questions are: 1.Which mortar do I use? I want it to be light coloured to...

Hi I'm running a drain through the footing walls and i'm stuck on the section of the building regs that states "openings masked with rigid material and around the pipe should be compressible". Rigid Board I've heard people mention cement board but will this not perish after a few years sat in...

On a wall side where a 42inch TV screen will sit on a table there is only the one double wall electrical socket, yes, you'd think there'd be more than this on that wall but there isn't, and it has to go on that side, but anyway here's the question lol. As I'll be having a TV, router, TV Box...

Hi I have knocked a small extension down to make way for a new one although it's revealed a concerning broken support/brickwork under an existing lintel which bridges the opening between the house and extension. This bearing is only about 100mm. I was considering, acrow propping the lintels...

I'm sure this has been posted but after searching through all the archives i'm still a little unsure. I'm building a ground level deck 3x6m in a yard surrounded by 4 brick walls, the ground is currently just mud and clay soil under that. I'm just a little unsure of the footings, mainly because...

Hi, looking for some advice for a bathroom wall that needs tiling. Top half of the wall is wallpaper on flat decent plaster, the bottom half was tiled. When I’ve taken the tile off there’s a lot of cement like material (possibly old adhesive). This is around 1/2” tick, more in places and...

Hi I need to rebuild an area of rear wall on the rear of our Victorian house due to it bowing at the top. The wall is brick built and I need to take it down by c. 15 brick courses. As the wall will be hidden internally by a rear bedroom and hallway it doesn’t necessarily need to be rebuilt...

Hi Guys, I am going to be installing a CCTV system on my property this week, though i have been skeptical on how to hide the wiring on the external brick wall. I do not want to recess the wires into to wall or through the cavity. I would just prefer to cable clip the wires on the brick wall...

Neighbour's kitchen drainage pipes routinely fall apart emptying a few loads every day of dishwasher, washing machine, kitchen sink water onto a paved path in their garden. The water floods their path and lays against our garden wall and is no doubt causing some damage and is certainly eroding...

Good Afternoon All, I’m looking for a little advice regarding something which is potentially a bit of a grey area within planning. I currently have a lean-to style shed (3 timber sides) the back of which is the side wall of my house. The back of the shed where it meets the house is about 8ft...

We decided today to decorate our landing and, on removing the wallpaper from one wall we were met with these tiles: Walltiles1 by martindp84 posted 7 Jan 2018 at 8:13 PM We decided to remove them to replace with modern plasterboard and only half way through did it occur to us that they might...

Hi All, Just a quick query regarding beams. Having my kitchen extended, as part of this we are breaking a main wall of the original house, The structural engineer has specified a beam to my builder, and ive seen the calcs but the beam he has specified is one 300mm by 7meter beam, to cover both...

Hello I have a question (no doubt asked in various formats in many other threads) about some work we are planning on getting done. Our living room (old building, 1800s) has a single skin wall and there are signs of damp near floor level- small patches, but there. The flooring was lino done on...

Hi there, Newish home owner here. Since I moved in 9 months ago I'm hearing the occasional click/tick in the mid morning, a sound which appears to be manifesting itself in cracking plaster (As per photos). This is within a built in cupboard on an upstairs external wall in the middle of the...

Im getting my home renovated. Almost done. A deck is being installed in the back garden patio space. The neighbor has an extension, and the wall of this is rite on the border line, so i see the wall, by neighbor does not. The deck has been installed and screwed/attached onto this wall (my wife...

The flush valve in one of our toilets has broken and I need to replace it. I've done it before and it's not a huge job. Unfortunately, however, the cowboy who installed the toilet has siliconed it to the wall instead of using screws. They also appear to have caulked the gap between the cistern...

Part of a stone building has a section of wall that is made from wood, the bottom part has rotted away. (day light coming through hole) See image below Its on a third floor, difficult to get to by a ladder from the outside because there is an extension below, so would require scafolding. Can...

Hi all. I've been reading and re-reading articles on shed insulation and am now totally confused. I'm building a workshop/brewery shed down the end of the garden - 3.5x4.5m. Plan is to build a 2x4 pressure treated timber frame on three courses of bricks to get the frame and cladding off the...

I have this 1sr floor lounge wall that, although soldly built, is a bit of an eyesore.I would like it plastered, I don't like plasterboard. Any thoughts?

Hello, recently moved into 70's semi. Next to the door to the main bedroom is a section of glass panels, floor to ceiling, which form part of the bedroom perimeter wall. Previous owners cover over with wallpaper. I want to fill it in, so once all decorated it will look like a normal wall. See...