Recent content by AWhitten

Thanks, that's very helpful. I'm reasonably confident the majority of the exterior is sand and lime. There are a few unfortunate concrete patch spots but thankfully they are small and will be dealt with. I will take your advice about the moisture meter.

Here's some more pics that show the context a bit more. The exterior pic is a few years old and is of the other side of the house, not where the interior pics show -- I'm including it just to show the construction. The weather's no good for taking pics outside right now. Could you tell me...

Thanks, I'll put up some more pics. That's not the floor in the pic, it's the slate windowsill. The walls are solid stone about 2 feet thick. The outside wall is stone that is mostly correctly rendered but has been inappropriately patched with cement in a few spots, that'll be a separate...

I have an old Welsh stone farmhouse that was extended by converting the attached stone barn, this would have been done in the 1970s. The original farmhouse has no damp problems, but the barn conversion part has a few, pretty clearly due to the use of some inappropriate materials. The bit I'm...