Recent content by redwick

Just finished painting the exterior woodwork and noticed that the odd brick here and there is turning powdery. You can push a finger in and extract red dust from the surface of the brick so they are quite soft and "powdery" but the mortar is OK. Should I be concerned and is there anything that...

Don't think it's actual moisture as it's occuring both upstairs and downstairs. Could it be explained by the properties of the underlay changing, either expanding or shrinking? The concrete floor downstairs wasn't really perfect anyway but the installation seemed OK and until now there haven't...

pergo door profiles were fitted but not whisperwalk. There is some up and down movement of the planks in the worst areas although the joints don't open and close but they do "move" hence the creaking noise. Pergo have advised that the floor be inspected. I can't get my head around the fact that...

I've had laminate flooring down for about 4 years giving no trouble and in the last few weeks several areas both downstairs and upstairs have started to creak and there appears to be movement along joints. The floor was laid on top of underlay. Downstairs the floor is concrete and the laminate...