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    Water and damp coming through walls: can you suggest a solution

    We live right on the coast with strong winds blowing heavy rain against the house. The house is built of cobbles of different sizes (jointed with lime mortar) and a 1950s extension of concrete bock and cement mortar. All the outside walls are wet dashed (small beach pebbles about 6mm mixed...
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    CH system boiling over into header tank. help please

    We dont use the CH much (its oil fired BTW). In fact it hasnt been on for over 12 months. I have just drained down the system to fit a new rad on one of the down stairs room (its the lower rad in the house). All connected now but when i fired up the boiler some of the down stairs rads (new one...
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    Advice please..Lime Mortar question for field wall rebuild.

    Hi there and hello, I am handy with most things and I have stone field wall to rebuild. The stone is smooth beach pebbles and the mortar has to be lime mortar rather than the usual dry stone field wall. The more I read about lime mortar the more confusing it becomes. I have about 90m (by...
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