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    Chase or not to Chase (with photo)

    Ok fair enough, not insisting on render but every house in my area has it. Literally hundreds of terraced houses with incorrect detailing of parapet walls. So is it tak up all the lead from tiles and start again? or install new lead from coping joint to above the lead already in place?
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    Chase or not to Chase (with photo)

    Ok interesting, every house I look at has rendered parapet walls. If we wanted to render where would you place the stainless steel bead?
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    Chase or not to Chase (with photo)

    Thanks guys, so lead really should be big/wide enough to extend right up to the coping stones joint? I would of thought all the lead underneath render would be potential for render cracking no? Fascia and tiles still to do, will raise fascia up and replace tiles right at the last minute as I...
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    Chase or not to Chase (with photo)

    Hi All Currently finishing up a small roof on kitchen extension partly DIY and working (v slowly) with a one man band to complete job. Question is, do I need to chase the lead flashings into the parapet wall if it is being rendered over? The parapet wall is a crumbly wonky mess of bricks and...
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    Buying new roof - assistance and advice

    Roof doesn't look that bad from a distance, if it's not leaking, plenty of time to plan the perfect roof.
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Yes, finally diverted a disjointed cracked drain/soil that run under a kitchen floor that has helped the problem in adjacent dining room massively. Guttering all ok. Took 6 months to sort out the drain but utilities company did it for free in the end which save a couple of grand. Whilst this...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    An update on the house/damp as we have hacked off the cement render (painfully slow process) to be re-rendered in lime. The grey lime mortar is mostly nice and dry above the bell cast but the lower level of bricks and mortar were damp and smelt of damp soil when hacked off. Waiting a few days...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Hi Mr Chibs, thanks for taking the time to reply Agree on the render and it is all coming off next month, I have put in a french drain before on a basement flat and see them recommended alot to sort damp problems. Current thinking is a proper bell cast on the render dripping on to new path...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Thanks again, will get the boards lifted and show you more of whats going on. I have also researched previous threads but it's not entirely clear 'exactly where' the source of damp is coming from, more like a combination of solutions like get a new dpm in there, replace joists, add a new...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Thanks for reply, There is quite a bit of space/sub-void between the oversite/ground and the floor boards of 1.2m. Youre right about no DPM and the joists are sitting directly on some pretty shoddy brickwork with no gaps so ventilation might be an issue around these hearth floorboards, it's...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    So since breaking up the crumbly concrete hearth I have been digging out the moist clay soil/rubble underneath. Interstingly the damp at the edges of the floorboards have now got significantly worse, why is this? It's been raining heavily but under observation no water coming down the...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Said damp on floorboards and absence of lintel attached.
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Some diagrams of chimmneys that I have found. I am probably worrying about nothing but the absence of a lintel or arch and previous bodge repairs in the house are making me nervous about excavating. Thanks for reply Mr Chibs.
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Update - started to break up the thin hearth (prompted by damp spot on adjacent floor boards). The hearth is like cottage cheese and easy to break up and sitting on dry rubble, slight concern that the bricks in the middle of the chimmney are not support by anything? Is this normal!? I have...
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    Clearing out Chimney Ash Pit

    Thanks for the replies, yes it has been made smaller for the now gone electric fire. Pouring concrete down into the ash pit is certainly one option. The base or pit of the chimney (under the floorboards) is quite a big space and so was thinking an opportunity to improve insulatation or spread...
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