Recent content by livinginhope

Hi all, a while back I had a wooden garden log cabin put up. It has a concrete foundation, then a plastic sheet as DPM, then the actual log cabin on top of that. I'm about to paint weather-proofing on the wood, and discovered that the builder has left the DPM in different positions on different...

Tiled. I don't know what's under the tiles (but I suspect wooden floorboards - it's an old house and I see no reason to think they'd have built the kitchen any differently from the rest of the house) Out in the street. Under a manhole so I don't know how to access it. Are you thinking of...

OK sure. Here's a plan of the ground floor living rooms. Both rooms are about 4m x 3m Quick background: Historical rising damp (yellow in diagram) - I (hopefully) dealt with that by fitting additional airbricks and lowering the ground outside the house (previous owner had actually paved it...

Hmm, isn't silicone injections the standard treatment for rising damp, particularly if a physical damp course had failed? I am thinking about your suggestion of lifting the floorboards - as I guess it wouldn't be that much effort to get them up - enough of them to have a look round under the...

Checked that thanks, and the wood is rock hard. So I would say, no damage from damp. The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking, plastic box sitting on the floor with only a millimeter or so of air between the box and the floor in a corner of a room that isn't used that much is perhaps a...

Thanks for the replies/suggestions. Good point about sealing the gaps in the floorboards. If that's a possible cause, and there are no possible bad consequences from sealing the gap, then I can easily get that done. Those particular floorboards have never been lifted as long as I've lived in...

The floor in my living room is currently plain wooden floorboards, sitting over a void, and painted on top with a wood-stain. I left a couple of plastic storage boxes in the corner of the room for a few months (the kind that sit a couple of millimetres off the ground due to stubs at the...

I'm trying to soundproof the ceilings of 2 ground floor rooms in our house, mainly against airborne noise. The rooms are each around 3.5m x 3.5m. A friend has told us that if we put two layers of normal plasterboard below the existing ceiling (thus dropping the ceiling height by perhaps 2-3...

Thanks Dave! What would a filling loop look like?

I have a biasi combi boiler (not certain of the model, but looking at the pictures on the biasi website it appears to be a Parva), and the water pressure has fallen to 0.2bar (!) (Very suddenly over the last week, until then it's sat just over 1 bar in the entire year and a bit that I've had...