Recent content by HouseNumpty

Thanks for the clarity. I do want an idea of the cost (and practicalities) of fixing the issues. In all likelihood I do have the money, but it's not a house I'm going to be in long-term so there's a limit to what I'm willing to spend. I'm expecting problems in a house that age - my two previous...

Cash purchase.

Thanks, I have asked for a call with the surveyor for more detail on the location of the historic woodworm anyway.

It did, which is why I'm wondering whether a further specialist survey is really required. - plasterboard in loft - gypsum-based plaster in kitchen - brickwork repointed using cement (not lime) mortar and painted with unknown type of paint which may prevent breathing (forgot this in original post)

Level 3 survey on a 2-bed Victorian terrace has recommended 'PCA-registered joiner inspection of timbers for rot and woodworm'. The house is empty apart from kitchen units/oven and has no carpets or floor covering except on the stairs. Previous occupants used rugs over the floorboards/tiles...

Thanks, that's clarified things!

'water travels downwards so not really an issue' - but damp rises? I don't see how/if tanking and damp in the ground floor of the house are connected. The current owner did the tanking so I guess I could find out, if they still have any details/remember.

Where does the water go if it's tanked though? Tanking might keep the basement dry but not the walls above so you'd still get rising damp? I'm interested in keeping the rest of the house safe rather than having a useable room in the basement.

Looking at a couple of houses both ~1880, 2 storey terraces with basements. In one the basement looks untouched and has one obviously damp wall (the 'party wall' not the external one). The rest seems dry and there's no visual evidence of damp in the ground floor walls. There's quite a large...

Not London :) I don't think pp would have been a problem, many of the same type of terrace in that street and neighbouring ones have loft conversions, and the only visible bit of this one is a small gabled dormer at the rear. It's just that no one has bothered with paperwork at all and now it's...

I put in an offer (cash) on a house which had been a 2-bed but the current owner had moved the bathroom into the 2nd bedroom and was in the process of finishing a loft conversion to make that the new official 2nd bedroom (it was already furnished as a bedroom). The works remaining at the time of...

Any idea on the ballpark cost if it is? 2-bed terrace.

Thanks - not sure of all the answers I'm afraid. It's a house I'm looking at buying but not at survey stage yet. Just trying to gauge how pricey an issue it might be (I will get a roofer round should things progress). Unsure on the age of the roof, the houses were built around 1900 but no idea...

The bathroom ceiling (inside) slopes down from where it joins the rest of the house (if that's what you meant, i.e. constructed as a slope, not unintentionally sloping inside). I wonder why the section to the left of the chimney isn't doing the same, since there doesn't appear to have been any...

Is the dip on the lower part of the roof to the right of the chimney of concern? It's over a bathroom. There's no evidence of issue inside the room. Thanks!