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Hi sorry to ask another stupid question. I have a structural engineer visiting in the week, I’ve asked him to check in the loft but told him it’s not boarded. He said it was fine, he would just walk along the joists. Theres quite a thick insulation covering the loft, will this need removing or...

Thanks for your reply, I painted one a few weeks back and noticed it was quite soft until it dried but not chalky, maybe the coat that was already there had been applied better

Hello, I have some artex covered ceilings in my house that need re painting. I’ve noticed today they are quite chalky is this normal? What’s the best paint to use please and should I paint them with anything first to seal them?

Thank you, I hope you are right.

It’s a 1950-1960s semidetached. The cracks are like this on the same wall in each bedroom

Thanks for your reply. The diagonal cracks seem to go up or down from the bottom of the windows and are really long. The horizontal ones are either midwall or under the window. The plaster sounds very hollow when I tap it on the wall in all of the bedrooms and all 3 have radiators under the...

Thank you for your reply. I have spoken to a structural engineer today who is coming to visit next week. Hopefully then I will know what’s going on, there’s no point in keeping guessing I should have called them before. He did say 9 times out of 10 it’s nothing major so hopefully it can be...

Hi sorry to be asking advice again so soon. Would roof spread cause hairline horizontal and diagonal cracks inside the house? I can’t see any outside but there are definitely new ones inside on the same wall in every upstairs room. This is also the same wall that has a 3 brick step crack at the...

Another builder came yesterday, said the same as the first, the chimney is fine probably just age and the cracks in the house are nothing to worry about just get them re pointed, the gutter bracket is just above it and the gutter is leaking so that could have ran down the wall and over time...

Thank you for your reply. By CWI do you mean cavity wall insulation? I seem to remember something being said about that being done when I was younger, possibly when new loft insulation went in but can’t be sure. Ceiling there looks ok from what I can tell, The wall is wallpapered but I can take...

Thanks for the replies. The crack is here on the wall

Hi sorry to be a bother again so soon. I posted last week about a chimney I was worried about that was leaning. Since then I’ve noticed these cracks on the wall, the same end of the house the chimney is leaning. I’ve spoken to 4 different builders and have had different answers. One said don’t...

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Sorry to ask another question. In previous posts I mentioned that the chimney breast in the loft hadn’t been removed. It hasn’t but it isn’t a chimney breast all the way down to the floor it’s kind of built in and stepped diagonally into the wall if that makes sense?

I have no idea about the flues or liners. The chimney that is leaning had a parkray fire in there when I was growing up after doing a bit of research today about air bricks, I don’t know what state the inside of the chimney breast is in or what could be there (aib board?) would putting an air...

Thank you. Your post has brought back some memories of when I was younger and we had a coal fire, my dad would sweep the chimney I’m not sure if it as done when the gas went in and the fireplace was bricked up but there’s definitely no ventilation so I’ll get an air brick put in. It might be a...

Thank you for your reply. There’s no air brick so the person I spoke to yesterday said we can put one in. The flues haven’t been swept that I know of. The chimney hasn’t been in use for almost 30 years. We’ve owned the house 2 years but it’s the house I grew up in so there’s lots of projects...

this is the other side of the chimney. I did notice these cracks about a year ago when the roofer came to remove and re cement the top of the chimney. I guess there was a miscommunication because I thought they had been repointed/ fixed at the time and it wasn’t until we got a better picture...