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Hi. Hope someone can offer advice or confirm my thoughts. In a bedroom we had mold and a wet wall (internal). The render outside had blown, so during bad weather we guess the exposed bricks took the rain water. Also the guttering above was attached to a new board, which meant the gutter was...

Thanks for all your help. We'll wait until it rains and take it from there. Thanks again.

The original part of the house (so the kitchen floor) has a slate type DPC. We could see this from the outside of the house. With regard to the extension, there was a slow leak from the boiler before we moved in which corroded some of the concrete floor next to the wall so I was able to dig...

Thanks for the advice. I'll make the small hole today in readiness for when it next rains. Out of curiosity, if it does get wet when it rains does this mean a huge problem? The bricks that the original part of the house are made with are those soft bricks (I believe London Reds) which absorb...

Thank you Woody, that's a great idea! Apologies, I didn't see your reply until today. Thanks again to you both.

Hi, We have an Edwardian semi. The downstairs bathroom leading off the kitchen is an extension, possibly built around 25 years ago. We had someone knock down the wall between the two (the old external wall) and put in a steel. My concern is that from inspection the DPC on the extension...

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Hi, I'm new to the forum so apologies upfront if I don't make my query clear enough. I have a 1906 property and intend to erect a canopy over the front door. I will be building a dwarf wall and having uprights support the canopy. For cost effectiveness I wanted to build the dwarf wall...