Ivor Windybottom's latest activity

There was an apartment block in Germany where the landlord introduced a rule that all men had to sit while peeing. He was blaming this...

My shower room's on a floating floor. I put solid timber in place of the insulation slab under the bog and basin, and solid concrete...

We always use solvent weld as does our plumber. Same thing can happen with push-fit pipes (coming apart) when using a plunger to unblock...

What I mean is that they definitely won't remain sealed if the thing is moving like a bouncy castle. I know someone who built a...

Is the water supply pipe in the vicinity? It may be a leak, or just condensation that's gathering on it and wicking into the wall

It's new brickwork and cement mortar that's more resistant. It's why Jeff Howell thought it was a myth because the tests he did were on...

Looks great, you need a shower tray to be super-rigid. Definitely good to over-do it, keep those edges and waste pipes sealed.

Total nonsense, cherry-picked evidence. One daft study that defies common sense in every way. Any bricky knows that building a wall...

If you're drilling above then it won't make much or any difference. Alongside it would be more of an issue. But I can't picture the...

I hope you've actually tried attaching a bit of wood where the new ceiling will be and walking up and down naturally - not just...

Get your spade out and dig down the outside of the wall in a couple of spots, dig down the edge of the concrete footing. If there's...

The "rising damp doesn't exist" conspiracy theory has been doing the rounds for decades. Total rubbish, spouted by idiots. Here's a...

To follow on from the above a week ago, I made a claim through my insurance company and thankfully there is no current subsidence. I...

Relative humidity is temperature dependent. If you took the air from a warm room with low humidity then cooled it down without adding...

Concrete posts can be surprisingly easy to snap if you get enough leverage. I had to move one, it was only a couple of years old and...