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Polystyrene is a good option, older style wall insulations were known to cause premature degradation of mortar joints by causing white salts to be bought to the external wall surface - this was when external walls retaining moisture for longer periods of time however. I am unaware of ALL...

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I had the opposite, just bought a house (built 1979) with a lovely open back staircase that the previous owners had closed off, all they had done was to nail individual pieces of timber at the back of the treads to make it appear like the stairs were closed, I carefully removed them, sanded the...

Jigsaws dont really give a striaght cut, as another poster says they do wonder slightly, if you can borrow a circular saw and make sure you turn the board over so you cut into the board as this will stop the finished side from chipping. If you must use a jigsaw use a very fast cutting speed...

I have a ferroli boiler to (different model) and had a similar problem, the c/h was newly installed and the boiler kept loosing pressure, no evidence of any leak whatsoever and eventually after openning the filling loop every day for about a week I called ferroli out as the boiler just switched...