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Cheers mate both helpful and constructive :roll:

Many thanks for the tip's Chris The paint looks like it'll do the job so worth trying, the cracks are so fine that without actually digging them out I'm not sure they're even wide enough to accept any filler [really hairline] Will most definitely try filling/covering them with the paint...

Hi all Right what I think I know is: My house is 150 years old It's built on mud, there's no footings it's simply sat straight on the clay. I believe it's a lime type mortor between bricks and what I've read is this stays flexible and will allow movement without causing cracks...

[/url] Hi and thanks for the reply, really enjoyed reading the first article and now not panicking so much. Still not treated mine yet as I would have to empty the loft lagging out and it's been to cold, reading the first article the worms probably dead/left anyway, the timbers are...

[/url] Many thanks for that. read with great interest and site saved to favourites :D

We bought a house a few months ago that had been repossessed but was in our price range, the biggest issue with it is having no known history :( I have been involved in property maintenance and kitchens & bathrooms for around 10 years and until work dried up this is what I did to earn a...

Cheers all Really appreciated and taking it all on board, only problem is all remedies are starting with a dry wall and I'm a long way off that :(

Just been to check some brands out Dec, the ones I can find are for unpainted walls. Do I have to try and get it all off again :cry:

Cheers for that and the brand names, I can go check them out :wink: Just drying the blinking wall out now :roll:

Hi ya It's a new floor, joists are fine and I left the gap under the skirting to tuck the edge of the new carpet under :wink: The brickwork between the joists [under floor] was bone dry, I cut the new socket in and the bricks are dry and as hard as. It's an upstairs room and is rendered...

Thanks for that flameport I only bought a small dehumidifier :oops: plaster did go light pink though, didn't expect it to be solved so easily but wishful thinking :wink: Been looking at buying some of this...

Hi all We bought this old cottage requiring work because it was what we could afford, it had been empty for a year and a repossession so no history available. The top front bedroom needed a new floor as the previous people had used chipboard offcuts that were no wider than a foot and...

Cheers for telling me my boilers cack, that is one of the questions I asked so thanks :wink: Mind you had a mate here since and his boilers a different make yet shares a lot of the components :? The gripe [not whine] I had is the fitting 22mm end feed elbow that was clearly visible on top...

Thanks I think :? YOU seemed to have failed in answering any of my questions though :roll:

Hi all We have just moved into a new home with one of the above fitted, the house was a repossession so little of the history other than the neighbours tell us it's only a couple of years old. The house has had a lot of money spent on it, new double glazing, new wiring, new plumbing...

Stuffed if I do, it's a 5 hour trip one way and we've got to be out for 1.00pm :shock: Will know tomorrow as I collect the van in the morning so have two days to load, maybe take some round my mates :wink:

:lol: :lol: The other Boxes tend to stay well clear when there's work to be done :roll:

We did the same here Alarm with an extensive record collection, you can get so many in a box but damned if I could pick it up afterwards :shock: Lorry here tomorrow so getting worried now, is it ok to stand beds and sofa's on there ends upright against the sides and strapping them there?

:lol: I hope I do better than that guy did :lol: Thanks for all the fantastic advice guy's, in the last 3 1/2 years of trying to sell and doing so four times only to have the chain collapse each time [even after signing contracts twice] we've greatly reduced our belongings. The last time...

Hi all We're moving ourselves through necessity really [didn't have the £4.5k quoted] and have hired a 7.5t box truck/van with a tail lift. I have hired the truck for a week so we have it two days before we move, a day of travelling and not having to be back till two days after [5 day hire...