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Thank you both for your feedback. It sounds like I’ve presumed wrongly that if it was sealed it wouldn’t be anything to do with the chimney . We do plan to remove the chimney breast but can’t do so yet (need money to do what we planning) so it seems a shame to pay to sort this out now.

Ground floor internal wall with a sealed up chimney breast has a damp patch. The previous owners removed the chimney breast from the 1st floor (making the bathroom larger). The chimney breast is still in place on the ground floor. We spotted a damp patch about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way up the wall...

That’s what I suspected. What should I look out for (Cracks / gaps that allows the water in I presume?) It’s tricky to get to as the garden slopes (quite steep) down in front of that side of the house. If we make sure to reapply a suitable filler / sealant as a starting point and see how it...

There is a leak at the top of our kitchen window. Water tends to come through when the rain is heavy and it’s windy and it is now causing a damp patch. Where do we start - in trying to find the issue? There is another window above it. Images of inside and out. The leak was there before the...

Will try to take more pics after work tomorrow. The fireplace is fully closed off and chimney capped off.

Phew. I can see a corner of plastic sticking out of one end. What about around the stones . Should we just pack in more mortar?

Our house has some age (built early 1800s) and we want to renovate the built in cupboard that was built in to the alcove of an old fireplace (now blocked up). The skirting that previous owners edged the bottom with looked rotten so wanted to get that out and it looks like lots of old / failed...

We're joining up the 2 halves of our front sloping garden that has a path down the middle. There is a retaining wall for each section that we now want to link up. (the breeze blocks are fronted by stone which we're hoping to match up). It comes to about 70cm high and we're hoping to use the...

Yes, and we did look into this but the quote came back at just over £14K (access is tricky - the lane and the property) and it's not a cost we can cover at the moment. Down the line definitely.

So the problem we had was with the soakaway and pipe running over that so inlet and outlets are as they were. The pipe connecting to the outlet is lower (as was the previous pipe). We think the issue had been that previous owners had run most of their rain water through the septic tank (which...

There was a load of gravel but the pipe is a few inches above the old one. Can't tell if wet since it's currently muddy & been raining. It did look ok at the weekend.

It is brick, but single chamber.

Hi John - what would you need a photo of - I can take a pic of the new pipe (with it so close to the surface) . Plus when you say: what do you mean?

The old one was damaged, and when we had a look very sludged up (lots of fine roots). It was also quite a short run.

The old clay pipe wasn't that deep either actually, but more like 4 to 5 inches below the surface. I was raking it over to break up clumps when I noticed the pipe. We are planning to add some top soil so could build it up a little - would that make sense? Or is there a better solution?

Just had the pipe running from our septic tank replaced because of issues with our old one & I'm worried about how shallow the pipe seems to be (top is just 2 inches from surface). Is that OK? Or should it be deeper? Thanks, J