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You are mixing up two completely different things. Airbricks sleeved right through are for void ventilation - like underfloor. The...

@ree - I see you are showing as California - this is a UK site dedicated to UK situations. IMO this is 100% wrong advice for the UK with...

You will definitely need a building notice (or regs drawings + BR application) the extension will have to meet all the latest regs. My...

I agree, but it's a much bigger job....

buy some suitable profiled beading and fix it to the top of the skirt. Nice mitred corner and a bit of filler and would look fine.

NFU - they quite likely have a local office where you can talk to real people about aspects of the policies. This is ours...

Just do it if you are capable.

yes, exactly. I had a conversation with my BC man once we'd stripped back to bare brick, and our consensus was internally insulate using...

An old man living basically in one room and 115 years of coal fires every day. I think when considering breathable lime plaster you...

It does, and a cavity, but when we inherited it, the internal walls were so wet you could almost literally wring water out of the...

....and after 440 pages of theory, the writer of the Salford report carried out a real-world experiment and wrote in his conclusion "If...

I've read it and it sets out to prove what the writer wanted to prove....except look at this from that report- "rising damp" in an early...

It's amazing isn't it that there are a zillion threads and articles out there about damp in caravans - very similar issues that people...

It’s been impossible to reproduce rising damp in the lab , the lab being a basement which was flooded and had all the main brick types...

I'll stick to my opinion, you have every right to have yours.