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If that's the screed in your hearth as previous photos I wouldn't worry. Just damp down the concrete. For bonding concrete the old...

Generally mixing by hand doesn't give you as good a mix. Even using a mixer a lot of the labourers get the mix workable by adding too...

My opinion is that there should be virtually no movement with this type of work. Typically, builders with lift up the building when...

All sorts of things get said about rising damp, but most of it is wrong. Damp will find it's way through some really small areas, so...

It's because NHBC guidance is that the horizontal DPC just above ground level projects 5mm each side of the face brickwork. As metric...

The normal way is to bolt the support plate to the beam so the beam takes the front of the breast, and the support plate goes back from...

I've said in my post that the staining on the stack shows that the tray is working, but I've always used patination oil on the trays...

I'm not sure the trays are causing all that staining under the soffits. There's a lot of staining on the stack coming out of the weep...

I'd say possibly a gutter issue as well. Lot of water coming down the centre of the roof, hitting the back of the stack and coming round...

The fourth image especially, shows you may have a source of water leak somewhere - i.e. a pipe leak.

It's not the worst brickwork, just needs a general clean, the area with different colour mortar normally would weather in but the soffit...

Getting the mix right with the correct sand is the key thing. In a mixer you need to mix it dry for 5 minutes, then add the water and...

It's a lot harder to take down.

It was used quite a lot in the USA for ceilings before plasterboard. The galvanizing can break down over time leaving the laths open to...

A lime specialist will have the roller pan mixers needed. No good turning up with a Belle.