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Good advice, many thanks. Out of curiosity, why do you say to avoid rendering the stack? Most of the stacks on the street are half rendered (depending on the owning side of the stack - every single stack is on a party wall.)

It's not listed - just heard a lot of caution against using cement on old Victorian brickwork. That is an interesting question indeed. Can't imagine the nightmare of dealing with the neighbours, but it's worth a thought.

Thanks for the advice. Definitely agree it's urgent. Don't want to throw down money on a patch if I need to rebuild and involve the neighbours - hence my questions. Edit: The quote I have does indeed say 'rebuild' - which means in this case rebuilding with modern brick and cement. Does...

I am a leaseholder in a Victorian terraced property. The upstairs neighbour (a tenant, the leaseholder upstairs lives in a foreign country and does not speak English) sprang a leak. We called out a roofer I've used before. He found heavy damage to the chimney. His quote to repair features...

When it gets to it I will sort out access with the upstairs leaseholder and/or freeholder as required. At that point I fully expect to have to explain that putting cement render on a old house is a bad idea, perhaps several times. Well aware that my eyes are not a professionals. Most...

That's dash that has fallen off. The dash I knocked off still needs a picture taken. Don't own the upstairs flat I'm afraid, making this a trickier picture. Nothing up there looks blown. The pictured area doesn't t sound hollow, and the area where it's blown doesn't sound hollow so much...

Just completed on an 1893 terraced Victorian. It's pretty obvious that it's been treated in a bit too modern of a fashion in past years, and I've been setting out to fix that. It has an extension on the back. One of my long-term dilemmas - the rear render. (There's render on the front too...

There's no basement insulation. Walls are 1893 - no cavity and no insulation there either.

I just purchased a 1890s Victorian and have a horrid level of humidity in the dirt-floored cellar owing to a complete lack of ventilation. The cellar is long and narrow, split into rooms, with no ability to fit conventional airbricks in the front owing to a layer-upon-layer of council laid...