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Evening, We've been ripping out rotting joists in our living room in a 1920's house today, when we removed the floor, joists and got a look under them, the earth on one side of the room looks to have sunk and cracked as of the wall on that side of the house has dropped. There doesn't appear to...

Morning! Today's mini project was to remove the old wooden surround for the fireplace and finish building up the hearth with a self levelling compound, top that with ply to floor level so that we can drop a rug over it for now until we have the room re-joisted and plastered. Few weeks ago I...

I think that's what the bit in front of my fire is called? We moved in a few months ago (1920s house) and one of the first things (of many) we noticed is that the hearth of the fire is sinking in the middle, the tiles are cracked. So I lifted the lose tiles today to find cracked, sunken...

Hello, new here! We purchased a 1920's semi detached house a few months ago and it has 3 fire places, 2 downstairs and one in the front bedroom, the two downstairs ones are clear, we use the one in the living room directly below the one in the main bedroom. I was just looking at the one in the...