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It is condensation occurring on the inside surface of a cold solid exterior wall. It is neither penetrating, nor rising damp, and is unlikely to affect the plaster seriously. Your damp course of blue engineering bricks is (doing its job as a DPC, but also) preventing the moisture that has...

40k isnt out of the way for accoya windows. You would be wise to see if you consent, esp for upvc. Flush fitting upvc look pretty good, done well they wouldnt detract from the property. Residence 9 or 7 are high end flush upvc. Deceunnick are a more budget option...

Electrics should be fine once it’s all dried but I certainly wouldn’t use them until it has; Other possible damage could be; • The bathroom flooring depending on what it’s made of; chipboard doesn’t like water. • Tilled floor could lift if water has got into it but, again, depends on the...

I am in the process of applying for planning permission for a single story detached workshop to the side of my house. Behind the principle elevation, but as it's a corner plot, I am subject to planning permission. Building will be block built, just shy of 6x3.8m & flat roof. I have already...

It depends on a few variables. If you're looking for the most cost effective option with little/no maintenance required, you could opt for a cheap and cheerful UPVC door or a very basic no frills wooden door. However remember the old adage, you tend to get what you pay for. Of course, there...

Hello all. I'm starting a decking project while the weather has turned nice Its around 14 x 12 foot and will need to be elevated around a foot to get me up to the conservatory floor level as I plan to step out from there right onto deck, and have the decking run the same direction as flooring...

Hi, I’m looking your thoughts on a water ingress issue I have. I am in a late 1920s terraced house. Red brick that has been pebble dashed and painted many times by the look of it. Above my hall is a small study and the window of the study is directly in line with the front door. The internal...

Hi, I have ripped out a badly damaged tiled fireplace to the builders opening, going to pick and point the stonework and put in a granite hearth. The fire surround which is currently up for debate on what we use may be plaster. In a local fireplace shop near me they had a fancy ornate 3...

(In the interest of being on the same page, I'm in Canada. So some similiarities to the UK, some to the US with materials, etc) Our undermount kitchen sink appears to be separating one one side ever so slightly from the quartz countertop. There's an angle there that wasn't visible before. We...

So we've had the hall and landing taken back to brick as the original lime plaster had blown and cracked badly in corners or was hole sounding and was coated with a Chrysotile artex skim that was damaged in places. We had a professional asbestos company do this work a few days ago, who fully...

1. I heard B&Q cuts wood in some of their bigger stores, can this be done in B&Q. ? or need local carpenter? Or any other store will do this? Yes they will cut it for you, pick your sheet, place it on your trolley and pop over to the saw, if theres no one around press the bell and they'll...

even stainless steel will get rust spots. On cutlery the causes tend to be either poor-quality Chinese stainless of 18/0 composition (18% chrome and zero nickel in the alloy) Or really good chefs knives of an alloy (they vary) which is very hard and holds a good edge, but corrosion resistance...

Hello there, I know this is something that is asked very frequently, but I have a question about possible asbestos. It's something that has recently come up in conversation, and I am hoping that somebody here may be able to tell me that I am talking nonsense, and what the walls are actually...

I'm not going to go in to full chapter and verse, so I'll just paint some big pics instead For picture quality RF and Composite video are bottom of the ladder. RGB from SCART is much better but difficult to distribute and somewhat dated. The future is digital. HDMI is the new SCART...

Firstly the casement is softwood, so a hardwood repair is going to expand and contract at a different rate meaning that the repair will pull itself apart in a few years - if using hardwood thge only viable approach would be to remake the casement completely in hardwood. Secondly a couple of...

Hi All, I am struggling to find an answer to this specific query so thought it best to create a new thread. Background: Our house is a 1960's detached 2-storey house in Cornwall. The external walls are of cavity construction, with both the inner and outer leaf constructed from concrete block...

Hello All, I'm not a regular, but looking for advice, am an engineer by trade and a suffering DIY'er over 30 years with a fair few kitchens / bathrooms / fireplaces to my name ;-) So here's the situation. We've been in our family home for 25 yrs, it's on a large plot approx 100yrs old & near...

Dont say that I wont get any more work in 13 years then lol. It would certainly be interesting to see everyones T&C's. Personally I cant even make heads or tales of my own when I read them, I borrowed my previous employers and edited in with MS paint lol. I really should rewrite it one day...

There is a radiator immediately to the right of the door, but there is an airbrick in the doorstep and floorboards and hatch are quite gappy so the temperature is 'normal' room temperature minus a bit. ie. 17-18degC on an evening at the moment (i have a thermomoeter/hygrometer in the hallway)...

Apropos, the regular Toupret interior filler, I stand corrected. Composition wise, it does not contain cement. I tend to use TX110 and Fibrex (both of which are cement based). I retract my previous recommendation of the regular Toupret interior filler. Apologies. I do however stand my earlier...