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I live in a 1910 edwardian terraced property in Yorkshire with a cellar under the whole house. The cellar area at the back of the house is partially underground but also has a door and steps up into the garden. It currently house the boiler, washing machine and tumble dryer. The cellar room at...

Thanks, that makes sense now! So the absence of headers in the loft space may mean that wall is only half a brick thick? Is it common to have less thickness in the loft ?

Thanks for all the replies. So the clarify, the presence of headers (in the bathroom wall at least) means the party walls are likely to be 9inch thick (two brick widths when laid lengthways)? Not 4.5 inch thick (width of one single brick)

Ah yes - I thought you had headers in every row of bricks uaually? Does this indicate the walls are double brick (9inch) thick ?

Total thickness inside to out on the external walls is 37cm - but pretty sure there is a cavity in there somewhere as the internal faces are brick and external stone

I am trying to ascertain thickness of the party walls. The house is a 1910 built Edwardian Terrace. The external walls are an early cavity type with brick walls inner and solid stone on the outside of the property. The only place I can examine the party wall brickwork is the loft and bathroom...

Thanks, it’s been heavy going but with a sander and a scraper the vast bulk is now off!

I am currently tackling the renovation of the attic rooms in my 1910 Victorian terrace. They are original rooms and not a conversion. The ceilings are not in a good way, with lots of cracking present in the visible parts of the room. The eaves area was boarded off with plasterboard, probably...

I have stripped approx 4 layers of wallpaper in a bedroom with a steam stripper and got back to bare plaster in parts however there is still some very old paint on the wall. The plan for the walls is to get them re skimmed, the ceiling is being over boarded and skimmed as is collapsed lath and...

hopefully it is. I think it might be a rendered finish? Worth chipping off the cracked areas a re rendering ?

The concrete lintel above the patio doors into the basement in my Edwardian terraced house has cracking evident as per the photos attached. Cracks are in the face of the lintel and also the bottom. I’m not sure when lintel was added - possibly 60s or 70s the opening was originally narrower with...

Ok, thanks for taking the time to watch the videos! I must have unrealistic expectations then - this is the first time I have had a 'proper shower' install (previous houses have been electric showers over baths) that someone sucking through a straw could effectively drain. Ideally we would have...

Ok so I have had them back and they have checked for blockages etc and tested the shower again with AAV in situ. They still deem it to be performing fine. So that I am not going mad I have taken two videos both with the shower on full chat, 1 with clean water and 1 with soap. Tray is not...

I’m getting them back to look at it. The stack had an AAV on it when I bought the house by terminated at the first floor bathroom and only fed the toilet. The existing bathroom wasted go into a hopper connected to the guttering. As part of the work they extended the stack up to the attic level...

The room the en suite has been built in is an attic bedroom and the pipes in the photos have been run through a small area of the eaves which was previously sealed off and is now accessible via an access door they have had put in. The run is 1.2 meters max. It has been fitted by a plumber with...