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Thanks will give it a go, seems like normal cement mortar so could go back with cement if it is already

Many thanks! Yeah will look different but hopefully as it’s the section that steps out will look less weird if you see what I mean.

True for what it is, debating new bricks but hard to find same, some are so badly damaged

Yeah solid so lime be preferred

To lime point or cement point ??!! I have a bay which all the pointing has eroded, cracked or fallen out and weeds which grow out the top. It needs re doing probably top 3 courses, not sure if a normal lime mix will be too white and weird on appearance, client doesn’t want to pay for diff clean...

On the right side ceiling above it is an external open porch area. On the left where rockwool is, is internal to the building and has a habitable space above. I am fixing PIR backed plasterboard to external walls with foam/ fixings going up gradient ceiling to lintles second photo. I am going to...

Hi, this feels like a grey area, I have insulated an intermediate floor with rockwool but unsure weather to insulate the gap around the bay window which meets an external solid brick wall?

Went for it everywhere but just unsure in the gap against the wall where the window is as it meets external brickwork

That’s for your response Wayners. Yeah probably just do rockwool, no vapour barrier as both flats are heated. What plastic fixings did you use for kingspan? Did they then go into the brick? Thanks

Hi, I am doing some renovation's to a Victorian single skin building which is into flats. One floor I was going to insulate the floor with rockwool sound insulation as it can be very noisy between flats and help retain heat in basement flat. It will be lived in so heat produced. The...