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Interestingly when I spoke to the lady from Peter Cox today and quizzed her over their operation, she told me that they are actually recommended by Which magazine. Then I found this http://www.which.co.uk/news/2011/12/damp-proofing-companies-exposed-in-which-investigation-274087/ Here Peter...

Hasn't it been reported/discussed that damp proofing and injection of chemical damp proof was massively over sold and missold in the 70's and 80's? And yet here we still are with valuers running around with moisture meters, and money being knocked off property prices, due to cowboys running...

Hi Ree Thanks for your comments. I agree, I think this whole damp proofing thing is a license to print money. You have consumers over a barrel where a) Someone trying to sell a house. Buyers mortgage company has valuation done, and flags up damp based of inadequate moisture meter readings...

Cheers Burnerman Peter Cox are coming out friday, so I will let them do their thing. If they flag anything up to Barratt I will play hard ball and tell them there is nothing wrong with this wall, and see how I go. No one from Barratt Homes will ever see the house, they just instruct 3rd party...

Couple more photos as I hit the upload limit.

Peter Cox are PCA members, and I will check the qualifications of the surveyor when they come out. I am told Peter Cox have been on the go for donkies years, and are fairly well respected. So hopefully they aren't out to rip me off. I have posted images here of the wall and the outside...

Yes, cold wall and kitchen is steamy, so I believe it to be condensation. I have informed the wife to stop drying the washing on the radiator. I have a black eye for my efforts, but she has taken note. There is no old pantry, do you mean the cupboards in the corners of the room? No, there is...

Thanks for your help. The chimney breast is in the same room. Basically there was a chimney in the kitchen as well as the living room. I have scribbled on a quick diagram to show you the position of these cupboards, and where the wall is in relation to them. Can I specify that I want to...

Hi Guys I will post pictures, but I am at work at the moment. The floor is solid I believe. I say believe because the flooring was down when I bought the house and I have never lifted it. However, there are 2 cupboards built into the recesses either side of a chimney breast, and these are...

Hi Guys I wonder if you can help/advise. We are currently going through the process of a Part Exchange with Barratt homes. They had 2 valuers come out and value our property. They have reported back that there is some damp to the rear of the property, so Barratt have made us a part exchange...

Thanks mate And that will be ok? I have read online the labels are "tamper proof" but not sure how that works.

Hi Guys I am fitting firedoors (FD30 - Wickes flush doors). These are going into existing frames, and so the intumescent strip is to go into the door edge. The instructions on the door and the intumescent strips say the strip should go centrally in the door, into the 2 verticals and the...

Thanks for the advice guys JohnD - I will be fitting new hinges (3 per door) as you suggest. Whatever route I go down, I will need to remove the architrace, so I will do that on one of the doors, and see how substantial a job it will be to remove the lining and put in a new one. I don't...

My current doors are really crappy 6 panel doors, you know the ones with fibre board shell and a couple of sticks of timber inside? They are hollow. i think they are the sort of standard internal door you get from B&Q etc. These can't be upgraded can they?

Hi Guys Thanks for the replies. I am not to keen on fitting new linings due to the disruption this would cause. We are at the final stages of the project, everything has been plastered and decorated and the last job is to replace the doors. I had assumed, wrongly, that I could just trim...