Recent content by DamonS

Directly above is the bathroom, it just passes through and there has never been a fireplace. Next door is a mirror image and neither house has a cellar.

It is shared, but I own both houses, so there's an added incentive to make sure that neither of them fall down.

After many years of nagging, finally getting round to sorting out the kitchen. There is an unused chimney that ideally I'd like to remove but I'm worried that it's going to be a complicated\expensive\risky job. The kitchen extends out further than the first floor (original design and not a...

Thanks Rob, have spoken to the essex and suffolk water and they only go so far as the external stop tap which judging by everyone elses in the road is about 500mm into the boundary. Not surprisingly they didn't seem impressed that it's inaccessible. They did say if I lay a new pipe to the...

House mains supply is a lead pipe that terminates in the kitchen at a very old stop tap which has caused numerous problems over the last couple of years (stuck solid, didn't completely shut the water off, frequently dripping.) although at the moment after a lot of TLC it is working. An added...

unfortunately a couple of weeks ago I lost a roof slate in the middle of a deluge and gained a massive damp patch. It's dry to touch now but I wasn't sure if I could just paint over it or if it needs stripping back and re-plastering. The wall around the door is brick with a wooden...

The following are photos of the current support arrangements for a chimney that I only recently discovered while clearing out loft insulation ready to do some rewiring. I'm worried about it but it's pointed out that the chimney breasts would have been removed 30 years ago and it's lasted that...