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    Lead Supply Pipe

    Yes and you can buy a water test kit on ebay to find out the level of lead contamination. Areas of high CaCo3 'hard' water are better as it lines the lead pipes however it is bad stuff best only used when it needs to be and not for drinking water at all
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    Tanking, Dot and Dab Walls

    I've followed the lime vs tanking debate carefully and it seems there are proponents of both systems. My personal experiece is a 1800 house made from a very porous stone and lime mortar with various 'repairs' with cement on various parts of the house. One room was bad and it was the interior...
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    Re-plastering stone walls

    Injection holes in the stone seem pretty pointless.
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    Damp stone walls: tanking plus lime plaster?

    I've followed this lime vs tanking debate carefully, I hope and it seems there are proponents of both systems. My personal experiece is a 1800 house (Somerset) made from a very porous stone and lime mortar with various 'repairs' with cement on various parts of the house. One room was bad and...
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    Damp, tanking?

    I've followed this lime vs tanking debate carefully and it seems there are proponents of both systems. My personal experiece is a 1800 house made from a very porous stone and lime mortar with various 'repairs' with cement on various parts of the house. One room was bad and it was the interior...
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