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Take a walk round B&Q or similar, note cost of doors with frames. Think how much you earn per day, think of the guys who will do the job, how long it will take, the cost of their tools and running a van, their living costs, they have families and how much that costs. So what is a fair price...

Fill it with foam, or cement and bricks. A hole in the top of a wall, means simply that most of the heat you put into the room disappears out through the hole. OK, I accept that one needs ventilation and a way to loose the water vapour that our way of living puts into a home but having a large...

There is no doubt that loft insulation makes a home more pleasant to live in. It also saves money on heating. However, the cost of doing it to a high standard, will not be recovered in one year. On the other hand, you will not be able to sell in a year as by then the market crash will have...

You can but, if you can I would suggest waiting a few days until we have had some heavy rain, then check the wall with a damp meter. If its reading OK, then go ahead.

The 15/50 is a good pump, designed to lift water 15 meters or fifty feet. It has three settings, which one are you using? Water always takes the easy route, back to the pump. So when you say you have tried balancing the radiators, what did you do? As balancing involves closing the lock...

Your best bet, is to straighten the wall by adding plaster, if you use any other system it will irritate you and everyone else who looks at it.

Any waterproof membrane will do the trick. keep in mind they require a reasonable overlap, you can buy a special tape to stick them together. Best bet is to put 9mm waterproof ply between the membrane and the soil to protect it, and then six inches of shingle to enable the water to easily run...

In all homes the indoors humidity is higher than outdoors. Water vapour from our breathing and sweating moves through the air into/on the nearest cold thing, usually a cold window but, equally a cold wall will do. Someone has fitted an almost water vapour proof membrane just under the surface...

When you open up a typical wall that has been, so called filled with blown insulation, you find large gaps have formed on the blind side of wall ties. So the filling is useless as an insulation as heat always goes to cold and all that happens is you block the movement of heat in one place and it...

I did the front of my house about 20 years ago, wind blown rain from next doors gutter was landing on the wall and making it green. This has worked perfectly.

I'm not sure where you are going with this? I presume you do not intend to have a clay surface to walk and drive on? Therefore, what do you intend? If its gravel, or even bricks or concrete, all thats required is to mix in Portland cement this will set and solve the problem.

No, I haven't done this, in my previous homes it wasn't possible. However, I do have it scheduled for next year. I did insulate my last home on the inside, knocking off all the internal plaster and lining the walls and upstairs ceilings with 25mm sheets of polystyrene, with 10-15mm plaster...

Interesting series of comments. I had an earlier house that was subject to water splash from next doors gutter, the wind would carry their water and dump it on my house. Green mould started, I brushed it off and used silicone - it worked perfectly. I have a gallon or so in my garage waiting...

If you have a broken damp proof course, this will show by the wall being especially damp in one spot. It is unlikely that a whole damp proof course would go wrong. Rising damp means, damp that comes up from the ground through or round a damp proof course (if there is one) usually it rises...

First of all the DPC, best to remove the bricks along the wall to about 12 inches from the wall and to lower the base below 6 inches, 12 inches would be nice as heavy wind blown rain bounces quite high - then fill the space with shingle to make it look nice. (this will give the rain somewhere to...

Perhaps you will expand your concerns? This is a fairly large subject where one can pontificate all day and bore people to death. I will mention that fibre glass lets moisture vapour through quite readily as it does the heat you have paid for. (Fibreglass is rubbish as insulation)...

With most units there is a kicking board at the bottom where the cupboard is set back, this is perhaps as much as 3 inches. Where the shelve sticks out. Drill some large holes in this or somewhere else - ensure you match the square inches of the air intake.

Since the Government in all its wisdom came up with the idea of everyone adding to their loft insulation -problems have occurred! Plasterboard is transparent to water vapour! An 8 by 4 foot sheet of plasterboard will allow 2.5 litres of water vapour to pass through it in 24 hours. This is...

Dry lining is a waste of time and money! When adding insulation to an outside wall you should think what will give me the best result. Internal of external. If you take the internal route, you loose space but, you have a room that will heat up and cool down quickly. If its on the outside it...

Yes! As long as the air can get into the machine and the damp air is vented (preferably to the outside)