Recent content by Labsnark

Thanks for that. I'm guessing you didn't get better odds than 11/10.... ;-) So the absence of any damp-proof course under, or in, the brickwork would be testament to the quality of the original builder, I take it?

My house is an old one with a poorly done extension, but we've removed and replaced most of the bad stuff over the years. I'm in the process of extending my bathroom (one of the remaining parts of the old extension) by knocking down a non-load-bearing wall, and was intending to lay a pipe from...

Your guess is as good as mine, noseall - fifteen years ago, I was much more reluctant to question builders than I am now! It may have been something as simple as avoiding having to buy the next size of sill in order to save a few pounds. Anyway, many thanks for that - that pretty much...

Hi all, The joints in our external concrete window sills are a perennial problem. Seven large (ca. 80x20x20cm) concrete sills go all round the base of the bay window in our extension, separated by gaps of around 15mm. When they were installed, the builder used builder's putty to fill the...