Recent content by carpentrycardiff

you could buy a domain name and hosting for less than £20 per year and use a free word press or weebly diy web building tool to design the site yourself and see how it goes. there's plenty of good videos on youtube to get an idea of what's involved. one ive just watched...

Its probably one of two things, either the dpc has failed or the cavity is bridged above dpc level.

Ive just done a job with similar symptoms, it was a bridge to the dpc caused by mortar build up from when the house was built. i took out 6 bricks in each opening 2 courses high bottom course at dpc level and 3 bricks long then scraped out the debris and mortar as far down as i could get...

I wouldn't use foam for this job because stone is uneven and often crumbly and dusty. The method i use is : measure and mark out 400 centres from one wall and screw a 2"x1" batten down each end, leaving the screw heads just enough under the surface of the timber so i can drive the...

Its hard to see from the pictures but it looks like the galvanising on the steel corner beads has broken down and expansion from rust has caused some cracks and most probably there is some swollen timber causing cracks due to what looks like quite severe water ingress. My advice is to get...