Recent content by frustin

That flat area is solid, my chisel isnt going through it. The render on top has all but gone now. I think that black bubbly breeze block thing is where i was getting my moisture bubbling in the original photos. is that solid stuff still cement? I'd need to get a machine to blast though that and...

yeah, however, when i started chipping off the gypsum, large amounts of the mortar behind it were coming off, so i went for it.

I've cut back the rest of the gypsum and found solid stone. The white is where the stone is, it's marked from the wire brush i used to remove the rest of the sandy material from it. it's flat so i'm assuming i'm "back to brick". I'll continue to knock the rest out, including the floor contact...

are you talking about the yellow coloured sandy stuff behind the gypsum plaster? i'm not sure how thick it is an i'm not sure what's behind it. I stuck my finger into that hole on the left and it's about 4inches deep. I think it's lime base coat, no idea what it's adhered to. There's no DPC...

I removed the radiator and the gypsum mortar .

No rot behind skirt, that looks like gypsum plaster (it's pink), however that metal angle bead is rusted to hell. I think the bead has wicked moisture up and that's what has blown the plaster. The material (where that hole is) is like sand-stone texture. is that aerated concrete blocks? I shone...

Firstly i think i need to qualify this and say i move into the property about 3 months ago. I added the Aco channel about a month ago as i was advised that there was damp inside the house around the fireplace area and walls (albeit you cant see it except for this post). The downpipe has been cut...

yeah, someone has put gypsum plaster and/or plastic paint on the face of my timber framed house (c1725). This has caused moisture to be trapped.

but if you look at my plan view diagram, the arrow pointing to "rising damp" is about 4ft from the outside wall. I think the wall is made up of aerated concrete blocks, which are quite moisture absorbent. also i've added the ACO channel (see outside pics) along the wall so hopefully will stop...

here's a plan view sketch of the hallway

Here's a picture from the other side ad there's blistering here as well. The floor is, I think, wood laminate over concrete. Could be rising damp from standing water externally. I moved in 3 months ago and along the outside wall to where this is, i've added a ditch outside, with ACO channelling...

what do i need to do with it though? rip it off? have the whole wall replastered with lime?

what shall i do what shall i do to the walls? can it be removed? with heat gun or something else?

I'm going to decorate the hallway. The hallway was a bolt on to the main house. The main house is made from timber frame and lime render. The hallway is brick. The wall in the pictures is solid and about 1ft thick. What am I looking at? rising damp? Dry rot? What can i do to resolve it? dig it...

There must (assumed on my side, i have no clue) be something you can do about crappy looking pointing if they build? where _could_ you say something? in the planning permission (assuming again, it work needs it)?