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Refurbishing our 1960s house. Window fitters have fitted replacement UPVC windows, viewed below from the inside. Plastering to come. Two of the windows fitted 1st floor front and rear elevation had nothing above to mechanically fit to (just soffit space). You can see some old blocks of wood...

Hi all Have knocked the plasterboard off above the top floor window recess with the aim of filling with insulation, probably rockwool type. These timbers I believe previously joined the old wooden window frames to the inner long timber you can see here. I expect the previous window fitters...

The garden is approx 12 metres by 20 metres.

Into a water authority rainwater drain within the garden. Took the manhole cover off it. However the friend who loaned me the pump does landscaping and says permission would be needed to divert a permanent soakaway into there.

Hi all Renovating house to live in. In the garden there is an area which when there has been any rain whatsoever, does not dry out. It has been sludgy during the late winter and spring, particularly with the rain, and walking on it meant sinking into the mud about 8 inches or more. It was...

Oh I see. It does seem very strange it should appear so suddenly and especially as it was once we allowed water to supply the toilet cistern for the first time since buying the place and flushing that loo. Might it be an idea for us to dig down on the outside and see if we can find anything...

Is that as it should be or ideally not? I believe it's still as built in the 1960s and the whole estate has outhouses same design.

Blue line indicates where fresh water supply comes up from the ground. It then goes over the outhouse door towards the toilet internally and then into the cistern. We are the first house on the sewer run and it goes off in the direction of the red arrow. However there is a waste pipe coming into...

Hi all. We removed a conservatory and it's concrete slab base from this spot around Christmas time. No sign of damp bricks on the outbuilding at the time. About 6 weeks ago a water company engineer who was examining the sewer which is outside the back door, off to the right of this photo...

Some definitely might go in probably not at lot though due to the sprayed in insulation lower down in the cavity. If needed is there an adhesive which could assist in sticking visqueen to bricks? Quite right 60s indeed. I plan to try my best to get insulation in there without having to knock...

Perhaps the outer skin facing sheet of plastic could remain to act as a vertical DPC on the absence of one?

Glue/adhere.

There is sprayed in cavity wall insulation in the walls from around 2000 I believe. Found it to be there within the cavity when knocking back a downstairs window. What could be used to stick the wool insulation in place where I need it?

Makes you wonder how much behind the plasterwork in a lot of houses is just left uninsulated simply because nothing has been knocked back to open up the cavities. I suspect there's no vertical DPC either side of the first floor window but without knocking off the wall plaster I'd never know and...

Ok thanks and apologies for my confusion. The part I am struggling to understand is that I can see directly through to the soffit space as there is only the one piece of timber above the window (which the window is fitted to) between the gap in the plasterboard and the soffit space. If for...