Recent content by jacob84

Thanks for the advice John. I see from your profile you're a retired teacher from Northumberland? No chance you taught at King Edwards in Morpeth, is there?!

Yeah, there are 2 more at the back of the house. Is there a way of checking if the airbricks are clear without lifting the floorboards? The skirting board is curved and I'm worried about breaking it!

Hi John, The floorboard I lifted wasn't at the front of the room - so I couldn't see the airbricks. But there are 3 at the front of the property. I tried poking through the holes with a bamboo skewer - and some of the holes allowed the skewer through easily. And some of them didn't - I did...

Hi all, I wondered if anyone would be able to give me some advice. I've got a ground floor flat on which we had some damp proofing work done about 8-9 months ago - a new damp proof course was installed in a bay window at the front of the house. Unfortunately, there's a strong musty...