Recent content by fredinitaly

I'm turning a storeroom into a living room - usual pre damp course stone walls and floor of a couple of inches of cement on mud. I've put down Visquene and 3 inches of concrete to stop damp coming up through the floor but there are a couple of places where damp comes a few inches up the walls...

I want to put a layer of LECA on top of a cement floor but am struggling to find out how to mix it. The bag has no instructions beyond add cement and sand if required. I've looked on the internet for mixing ratios and found 8 LECA to 1 cement. (I assume this is by weight even though the LECA bag...

I have an upstairs floor which consists of 1 metre long hollow bricks between H bars with an inch of cement on top - seems odd to me but its quite common here in Italy. When you walk in one of the bedrooms above the floor bows and we get different views from "no problem" to "highly dangerous"...