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from what i can make out you are right about the more modern hall boards - they appear to be correctly nailed, and may even have come pre- finished. If you can call that lick a finish. You can sand and finish them after making certain that there's no face nailings, loose boards or cuppings. The...

You are on a slope with ground water pressure coming downhill from left to right - with only two air bricks - you could insert two 9" x 6" plastic air bricks on the right hand side and replace the left hand 9" x 3" with a similar size plastic air brick. Plastic a/b's give more ventilation area...

Thanks for the pics. Please annotate your pics or describe what's being looked at from where, its difficult to tell the viewpoint for instance. Your cottage is rendered with what i dont know - render composition sometimes depends on where in the UK you are located? Its difficult to say what...

Stand back and photo the larger area context of the lintel, and the other sides of the beam, & a pic of the porch roof Flashing? Does the beam smell of mushrooms - is there a brown dust on the floor below? "damp in there" - damp in where, the porch? Examine the walls inside the doorway and...

OP, You are between the rock and the hard place. Best practice says strip all that render off back to brickwork. Cash outlay says can it be dodged up for a few more years? There seems to have been quite a lot of water absorbed into the render, & the paint job looks as though it never took in...

Heres a thing: by what i've viewed, ninety percent of woodworking machinery used on you tube is dangerously wrong, they have no idea about safety. Very few of the people - young and old - that i interview when they join us on site, has a clue about simple safe practices in using hand power...

Given that mechanical DPC's are the benchmarks for extensions etc - why would BCO allow variety in installations? I still dont understand - why the extra time and expense of two DPC's? In what kind of wall? Are you calling capped joist tails in brick pockets, or joist tails sitting on a bit of...

Whats "conflicting" about my post? We sometimes do work for housing assn's or large landlords - say 40 flats or 20 terraced pre-1914 houses that, along with other works, show small patches of condensation, similar to what the OP reports. And the idea that their RICS surveyors will allow what...

I guess the jog and slot were built into that 50ft straight run during the original build. A good precaution esp given the now proximity of the neighbour's tree. Trees and walls are bad news esp as garden walls are often on shallow foundations. Its possible that its merely the length of wall...

OP, is the wall a masonry wall or a stud partition? Is the bathroom on the first floor or the ground floor?

as flameport above, Steaming is a nonsense - why create a sludgy mess, and why radically disturb something thats potentially problematic. In a word why make things worse. Again as above, simply board over, and then tape and skim. OP, given that the ceiling is to be boarded then all you have...

Yes, fix any 18mm board to the joists to bring the floor flush. Make sure the 18mm board is supported at edges and screwed down. Dry fit with the trap and waste connected - will they later be accessible?

James45632, DIY'ers come on here for advice - they are often given it by skilled people.

As i suggested before "just a scrape and paint" wont do - you will have to hack off etc. Whichever way your joists run they will have been seated in a damp wall, & in all probability have fungal damage. Go under the floor if its possible, and examine the conditions down there. Your skirting is...

I'm not a brickie so bear with me, You have a two brick jog-out so it seems - the vertical open slot is an expansion joint. Is this the only one in the wall? How long is that wall? Will you post a pic showing the jog-out from the other side of the wall. Is there anything applying pressure...

OP, dont sweat it - if you feel better with two layers of p/b then just bang them up.

OP, Given how you've gone about opening up the cavity in the last pic, if you continue like that you will end up damaging large sections of the Plinth Why did you choose to open up from the outside? Whatever - under no circumstances open up at a corner - dont touch any inside or esp outside...

New house build produces the worst kind of building work. There's virtually no supervision, much corruption, and tremendous pressure to speed and finish the job. Whoever financed the job wants their money back double quick time.

OP, Yes well allowed & welcomed i'm sure - your text and pics are great for all those other DIY'ers who will follow your thread now and in the future, well done. Using Paramount in a residence is bad practice in my book - its for partitioning offices and commercial areas not houses. Why do...

The outer skin DPC was shown in photo number one. But why and how it was brought out from the brickwork into the sand & cement of the lower plinth is a mystery, unless the original builder's were parging as they brought the founds to DPC level? I dont understand: "DPC's at differing levels"...