Recent content by MisterBoy

as simple as a 110mm push fitting for a few quid, maybe additional sealant as it's permanent?

I've a building with a room formerly containing two toilet cubicles and a sink. The toilets and sink were removed and the soil pipes basically just bagged and taped over. They exit through the floor (not the wall), immediately (<1m) join the main soil pipe run from another toilet (which is being...

Next to my old garage is a brick-paved triangle the length of the garage and just a couple of meters wide at the end. Someone clearly just put it in as decoration, you don't walk or drive on it, but it's been buried under leaves and moss the last few years. I got all the loose stuff off, the...

How does it hold up - guess you just stretched it over and stapled?

We had some steps built up to an outbuilding, they used modern railway sleepers dug into the slipped ground for the frame filled with gravel. Look nice but unsurprisingly the wood is slippery when wet, and when we got frost it was treacherously covered in black ice. I’ve looked at grip strips...

as far as I can tell the clock loses its setting every time you turn it off at the wall which is irritating but that isn't the problem, I'm not running it with a schedule but a constant low temperature (10C) as the building is not in much use and the weather is so cold. It runs fine after...

I had 4 Consort LST electric heaters installed in a small office building almost exactly 6 years ago - the PLSTi1500E model. A week or so ago one started beeping constantly when using the building after the Xmas break - it's a simple repeating beep about once per second which continues...

I bought a lovely teak table a few years back. I researched and chose a product by Treatex, and carefully applied it as directed. It looked beautiful but after a couple of months started to peel off. I contacted their support and ended up painstakingly sanding it back and reapplying even more...

Yes of course, that slipped my mind. Ye gods.

I would like to have a log-burner installed in my period living room - it's an 1860s brick house with a large chimney breast. Putting in a modern slate hearth and panelling out a rectangular recess with fire-board wouldn't really fit the vibe of the room but that's how I've always seen it done...

It's fairly classic symptoms, and confirmed by the professionals who inspected in person so not sure what point a photo is going to prove.. I am asking - on the presumption it is RD - to what extent it needs to be "cured", or can it be managed in more traditional ways.. ventilation, breathable...

Why do you reckon that?

My place is still draughty :)

Isn't that how the Victorians originally built though - the panelling was to hide the damp, with vent slots and an air gap?

My solid-brick Victorian house has rising damp on the north exterior wall. Historically there has clearly been an injection DPC but it has failed - most likely bridging as the external wall was rendered on top (now removed) and the ground level outside is higher than ideal. I've got a quote to...