Recent content by jamesingram

Hi, I have a walk in shower with fixed glass walls. One of the tiles has cracked where the track for the glass has been screwed in too tightly. I need to remove the screen to replace the tile and then put it back, so I want to remove the glass without damaging it or the track it sits in. It...

Hi Vinn. Bottom of the down pipe is all clear. I was thinking about soemthing like Toupret Fibacryl for the cracks - link below. Does that sound okay? Was looking for something flexible. http://www.toupret.co.uk/business-customers/products/specialist-solutions/fibacryl-FIBACP01G.html I had...

Playroom photo, complete with touching artwork, is ground floor and the damp corresponds to the crack on the exterior. No damp in the room above the playroom.

Thanks Vinn. Did a drill test at weekend. Walls are solid on extension and measured original walls too. That are only 22cm wide so solid. Am I better to bite the bullet and hack off anything that sounds hollow? Cheers! Jim

Thanks Vinn. Will check bottom of the down pipe too. The vertical line is the expansion joint in the extension. No damp around there. Checked the "how to" on render and it said I didn;t need to remove hollow sounding render as long as it is sound. That sound okay to you too or would you...

Hi, Would be great if anyone can provide advice on this. On the outside of the wall in the same area as the damp there is a horizontal crack in the render. When I tap the render near the crack it sounds hollow for about 20cm top and bottom of the crack, but when I took a hammer and chisel to...

Hi, Checked the gutter and some mortar had fallen into the downspout with dirt building up behind it. In heavy rain it would shed water down the wall. Have removed the blockage now. Drilled the wall to check it is solid and not cavity. It is a solid breeze block wall. The wall is wet...

Cheers Vinn. Internal photo included. I could not see a further crack in the masonry behind the render. No external insulation behind the render Render is about 3cm thick. I could see the grey blockwork behind the render and it was these that felt a bit damp. We did have a structural...

The other thing I thought of was running a hosepipe into the gutter and seeing if any of it runs down the wall, exacerbating the problem.

Wall thickness is 29cm including plaster and render. I think that's too thin for cavity walling? Even if not why would the blocks be damp if the problem was condensation? Also - the problem has got worse over the summer and I would have thought condensation would be more of a problem in...

Thanks Vinn and Motorbiking. I've posted some images. The problem area is to the front of the house. The 2 bigger bits of the crack are where I've gouged in with a chisel to see if the blocks underneath were damp or if the render was loose. The render sounds hollow when knocked but takes...

Would expect damp higher up the wall if that was the case though? Wall is dry until ground floor.

I'll check that - thank-you!

Hi, I have a 2 storey side extension built around 1998. From the planning application I think it's a solid wall made with 250 Celcon Solar Blocks. There is a localised damp patch inside the house on a downstairs external wall near the ceiling. The problem is not evident upstairs and there...