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No damp was not my OP but I started a damp post with no response. I know it would not of ever had lime in it at that age, I just thought it was more breathable than mortar and plaster, so if I did have a few failed areas I could try to let them breath as opposed to digging up the screed or...

Hi Woody , thanks for that. I went back today and had a better look at the roof from the ground. As I was looking for specific causes, the roof has not travelled laterally more than a few inches, and the sagging does not look that severe , coupled with as you say the cracking pattern would be...

I am reading alot , I have been a floor tiler and building clenner using acid or sandblasting. I do a lot of diy, so no I am definatley not a a bricklayer or structural engineer , I was just looking for advice so I dont have to fork out £425 for a structural engineer to look for an hour...

Hi I have Damp powdering to dust internal breeze blocks in a 1973 ex council cavity wall build, it has a solid floor that had been bitumen adsevive vinyl tiles, and part panneled/brick exterior. The internal walls have blown low down in 8 spots at least, they are mostly away from external walls...

Hi woody , sorry for the bad pictures, so it does not look like thrust from next doors wall and roof . Could it not be that the middle brick skin off the party wall has shoved across the 3cm cavity and is pusing on the inner breeze block plastered wall? so in the roof (i did not look) could the...

Sorry if this is a bit of a duplicate thread but I am about to buy this offset terrace house with a roof that joins up at the back, the neighbours ridge is dropping and the gable tile pointing is blowing , internaly in the room beneath wher the roofs meet there is hairline cracking from the...

It is a cavity build external wall but I dont know if the internal party wall is a cavity?

Hi, so I am just confused over this 1970s ex council house I am buying, it has an offset party wall with the roof joining up at the back for a third of its width. I can see from the street that the neighbours ridge tiles have been heavily rebedded to about 7/8cm to keep them straight, and the...