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Putting a gasket of 2mm foam/rubber between the fan and the plasterboard is very effective, same for all fans/extractors because the boards it is mounted on add a lot of low freq noise. But this is probably a different type of noise than the one you are talking about. I remember the Envirovent...

Well ... I did some work on Tuesday, the 2 cracks on the RHS of the window, I opened them up on the left. The top one big one, I took out about 1.5kg of material and put in Lime Putty. I wanted to make sure real lime mortar was in the deep crack. There was more hollow render above, but was not...

Indeed, it has been slowly growing since I had it more than 20 years, it's just the bay moving in the wall. At the top its a thin section of wall. So my plan is to hack of render around cracks, repoint 4cm deep if there are any gaps or cracks in the mortar otherwise leave that. Then...

@Ivor Windybottom Render is in good condition apart from those cracks. Anyway I can' turn a job of a few hours into a week

@Charlie George Yes, I think I'll take the render off half a line and scrape at it see if any is loose and then repoint 4cm in those areas - otherwise leave it - and put the render back on, working progressively until its all done got lots of time on my hands ... That's all. If it cracks in...

No it's the bay slightly moving in the wall, on the interior there are also small cracks and slight movement on the outside by 1mm. Render alone won't fix it. Just had a builder in here, he's booked until June so it looks like I will have to do something. but he mentioned sticking in a helical...

mortar rakes come in 4cm or 6.5cm so I could do 6.5 all the way along and drill through 2" per brick or something

So what do I do repoint ? If I repoint it's 1/3 of the brick width isn't it, but is it worth drilling full width say to do 2" all the way through, then a 4" section only 1/3 width, and repeat along ... i.e to put a few teeth that go all the way through??

Thanks ... it's a small area its a 1st floor back of the house kitchen wall (over an extension) next to a bay window. Wall is 600mm wide. And it has 2 cracks - first at about chest height, 2nd one about 1/2 metre above that. And on the inside there is a crack All horizontal. So basically...

Got a crack on the back wall of the victorian flat, going to do slanted 8mm holes 20cm long to pin it with helical stainless steel. Upwards and downwards. What do I put in the hole with the ss - resin ? Or lime mortar ? Or have a ready mix Cementone repair concrete but sets hard. Or can I just...

btw had some damproof salesman come in the other day using a protimeter mms2 .... stuck it all over my walls, exactly the same readings as WMT 10

Thank you. And does this mean therefore that if a contractor tells you that "he has insurance" it actually does not mean that any damage is covered ?

If a damp contractor collects readings on a professional meter that are in the RED and which the meter's manufacturer says require immediate removal of ingress ... but the contractor does not communicate it with the home owner and instead sells impermeable coatings, and later there are big...

In a victorian house with a 6 flue chimney .... 3 floors ... can you remove the GF portion? In this case the chimney is one piece in the center on 2nd floor. But on the GF and 1st floor the chimney is split into two pieces with alcove between serving the front and back of the house. And we...

never buy anything modern !