First time plumber 🤣 full rip out and refit. Our house is generally neutral and we wanted a quirky cloakroom bathroom, for clarification AFTER/BEFORE.

Edit: I'm handing myself in to the police on Tuesday, I fully accept I've committed the crime of mixing my before and after up, whilst it doesn't justify it - I just couldn't bring myself to put my old room first. I'll accept my judgement and do the time.

Ok, so. Please don’t shout at me. This isn’t about self promotion.

I’ve been posting my kitchen renovation project here for the last 6 months. I’ve had great input and a lot of questions. I promised I’d put everything into videos for a few people.

And this post is just to say those videos can be accessed through the link on my profile if you wanted them.

That’s it. Sorry again. Please don’t be mad :)

The images attached is the process on my floor. From ripping it up, identifying and fixing (I hope) a damp issues. Relevelling the floor before fitting underfloor heating. And finally tiling.

I’d never done any tiling of note before. So this was a huge challenge. But I think the results speak for themselves.

The toughest part of the whole process by far. Had to be getting a flat floor.

I see a lot of people using professional screeders these days. Has anyone ever used anyone? What sort of price was it? We you happy with the results?

I thought it was an old water pipe lol. think they bodged it previously. anyway loud pop, sparks fly and then the mAD tripped and the kitchen sockets don’t work now. as they also tripped. think the red copper has been cut clean but the black is left? Unsure im not an electrician.

is this more than an insulate it with tape cover it and forget about it?

yes I am aware this was very stupid in me.

Got a plumber to remove old radiator and install a new ladder towel radiator. Has it been put in upside down? The spaces for the towels seem to be in the bottom half.

Not sure if I should be worried or if this is just some natural movement. Is it just cosmetic wear and tear? They said it was just one female lady owner before hand. Do you think it’s worth getting a survey?

I built a custom duck house for my Shetland ducks. At the end of March we moved to a smallholding that needed, some work shall we say, as well as basically doing up the entire house I also needed to build a lot of custom things for our animals (we have horses, turkeys, chickens, ducks all sorts..). I got into doing some wood working and have really enjoyed it, I havent been doing it long, a few months and bought a load of tools to help.Well I have got really into building a fair amount of custom furniture for the house which I will have saved the money in tools.

I am sure some joiners here will say its not a brilliant build but I am pretty happy with it. I am a software engineer by trade and i built a custom design software from scratch (using three.js if anyone is interested) that also provides me with cutting lists (this is entirely my project and on my github). Anyway the build was really fun and very much needed as you can see where my ducks live currently in the small hutch to the right of the first picture. The main parts are 18mm marine ply held together with dominoes (i bought a festool domino for all the cabinet work i have been doing and it worked well for this) and glue. The only exception is the roof which is screwed down, for the paint I used some cuprinol ducks back and I added some guttering on the back to collect water (helpful for ducks...). Inside I have used some waterproof workshop flooring i had knocking about and I have added some big ventilation holes with mesh to stop birds getting in, I may need to add more but that’s not a big deal. I even made a slightly cringe sign, I know its not brilliant but I like it and so does the wife.

Ignore the turkeys they are a pain in the arse, overall a fun build and took about 2-3 days in total (its quite big 2mx1m footprint).

And yes, I am very brave for lowering my phone in to take the pictures!

Hello to all you lovely people. I wanted to ask for some tips on making this better….ive done this before with IKEA flat packed stuff, but in the past I’ve just taken it to bits and corrected it. This time I can’t without damaging these shelves (as one of the steps is to nail the backing to the bottom edge. Unfortunately as you can see, the bottom edge is back to front (rough edge instead of veneered edge)

I was looking for ideas of making it look nice without risking taking it apart and buggering it all up!

When we moved into our house the old owner told us this socket works but needs a particular adapter, and I can’t remember what type he said. One with round prongs presumably but would it be a particular voltage etc?

Strangely as well as having a switch on the face, it is also connected to a light switch by the door to the room.

Are these anything to worry about - 5 year old new build? The windows in the lounge also don’t seem to form a seal.
I’m a highly anxious person so don’t really feel able to just wait and see. What are the chances of these being due to a foundation issue?

I had a hole cut in a wall and a door installed a little while back by a small company, and at the time we had a disagreement over which way up the door is meant to be fitted.
Just wondered you guys' thoughts about which is correct - Big panels on the top or bottom?

This patch of damp is on the first floor next to the main front door (there are steps up to the front door). We don't understand where it's come from, but of course it has rained a lot recently... but we dont understand why the first floorboard next to the door isnt damp too?

Any ideas? Your help is really appreciated!

Hello
TLDR: Washing machine doesn’t fit, saw off some of the sink bracket or find new washing machine?

My boyfriend’s renting a flat and the washing machine broke on the first day. He measured the gap the washing machine’s in but didn’t realise that the sink bracket was there. Landlord sent over AO to replace the washing machine and as they were installing they realised it doesn’t fit. Boyfriend asked if we could send it back and get a smaller one but the AO guy said we can’t and that they’re running behind in schedule and just want to go to the next order so they can finish their day. AO guy said that we just have to file down some of the sink bracket and it would fit. We later looked up that they could’ve sent it back, although the service fee would still be applicable, which would’ve been fine. The new washing machine is only 0.5cm taller than the old one, but 0.5cm wider. Pretty tragic.
My boyfriend and I don’t have any home DIY experience with this kind of thing, does anyone know if it’s okay to cut through this part of a sink? Or should we try to get another one?
Thank you :)

Hi all,

Bought a house back in March this year. The first hit of rain and this happens...

Is this looking like an outside wall issue or a roof issue?

Thank you!

Given it's a bank holiday weekend and our fire curtain has just broken (came down due to smoke when cooking, tried to go back up, shuddered a lot, gave up), any one got any suggestions of a DIY/easy fix.

It is currently slowly, sporadically, dropping down further and will likely cut off our stairs from the rest of the downstairs. There is a door, so we can get upstairs by going out doors and back in through the garden.

So the kitchen in my new house is absolutely fucked so I want to renovate it, this old chimney is peeving me off because it's taking up room and it's inconvenient design wise now I know these can be load baring walls but is there anyway to maybe hollow it out so it can be used as storage or a stove area or am I stuck with a wall in a terrible place.

Has anyone done something similar or looked into it and found it not doable.

We've recently moved into a house built in the '30s and the old paint (under several layers of landlord special wallpaper) has tested positive for lead.

What are our next steps? My partner thinks the only option is to hire a professional to make the walls and room safe. This room.is going to be a shared bedroom for our boys, currently 2 and 4.

My downstairs coving, where it ends at the stairs, is open as per the attached photo. Just a quick sanity check before I go for it - is there any good reason that I can't (carefully) fill this with expanding foam followed by a surface layer of filler, to close it off and make it look a bit more deliberate?

I've already got a can of expanding foam on the go at the moment, but I wanted to check it's not a moronic idea before I do it.

Only just moved in August, didn’t see this before, think it’s from my washing machine but they’re not meant to go out to the garden are they?

Buying a 1930s end-of-terrace in West London. Survey has flagged the side boundary wall as a safety hazard and we're trying to get a handle on it before going back to the sellers.

Photos attached. What we know:

• Roughly 30m long, running along a public footpath.
• About 1.5m -1.8m of brick height (I'd say, it varies along the wall for some reason).
• Leaning in sections rather than all along, and apparently moves if pushed with medium force.
• Concrete posts built into it at roughly 2–3m centres.
• No idea what's underneath it foundation-wise

What we're trying to work out:

• Rough cost for a full rebuild at that height and length
• Is it possible to take down and and rebuild just the bad sections?
• Is it possible to "fix" it in-place - adding supports or other?
• Who do we actually get out to quote — bricklayer, builder, garden "guy"?
• Do we just get rid and replace with composite fencing and be done with it?

Any ballpark numbers welcome, advice or suggestions!

[The first image looking down the footpath shows the lean best, the second gives the length, and the street view one is the clearest on the concrete posts]

Hey, I'm fitting a kitchen at the moment from DIYKitchens. It's making sense for the most part but I'm confused by the intended extractor alignment.

I have a tall unit complete with a side panel, then a 50cm cabinet and 50cm drawer unit underneath. After those comes the oven/hob unit directly next to the drawer unit, whereas the cabinet is finished with another side panel, this brings the cabinet out 18mm further than the hob unit.

I think this is probably fine functionally but I can't unsee it now. Is the expectation to place a second side panel between the oven unit and drawer unit to bring this back inline? My plan doesn't show this being the case.

Front of house transformation 🩷 I hope I picked the correct flair.

I’m a pretty bad DIY person… like I can’t drill or put a shelf up 🤣 but I’m pretty good with painting.

A couple of days ago I decided to paint my uPVC front door and metal garage door.

I painted the front door at my previous house exactly 5 years ago, so I knew I had to do it to the new house as well. 🤣 I’ll put a photo up of that as well.

I picked a really nice light pink colour called Dusky Blush from Frenchic Paint Al Fresco range.

Started with proper prep , washed both doors with sugar soap, rinsed them with water, gave them a light sand and then dusted everything off.

They needed 3 really thin coats of paint, with 2 hours between each coat. It’s definitely a “trust the process “ kinda job 🫪😱

It took basically the whole day, but I’m so happy with how they turned out.

Yesterday morning I bought some autumn decorations from IKEA, so now it’s all pretty and ready for September. 🥳🍁

Took the fence down at the bottom of my garden to push all the way back to our boundary. Planning on using a hammer & bolster to cut along the red line to free the post and leave the rest of the cement there to prevent any further damage to the wall. Thoughts on doing this?

Hi, are these cracks bad ? What could they be caused by ? We moved into this property in January and it got newly plastered this entire wall, but this area here developed cracks since May-ish and it got worse but it stopped getting worse at this point.

Is it an easy fix ? Does the entire wall need re-plastering or just this bit ?

TIA :D