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Oh and re flood and DPC: floor is suspended wooden floor, with new airbricks fitted. DPC not installed (though front wall had it 8 years ago, and is just bad as the other new paintwork!) Am increasingly suspecting we should have let the bricks dry out first, and were too hasty to complete! K

Hi guys Thanks for the advice. Exterior ground level WAS high, but had a drain filled with small pebbles and plastic (or plastic looking barrier) installed to address high ground level. The thing is, whatever has caused the new wall to be damp (which is sand/cement render mixed with sika...

Hi all We recently bought a lovely Victorian 3-bed semi in London... Downstairs, the interior of the wall that borders the garden had a lot of damp. So up to a height of about 1.5m we hacked off all the plaster back to the brick, and replaced with a sand/cement render mixed with sika. But...

Hi all I recently bought a 3-bed Victorian house, much of the internal decor is about 50 years old, including the carpets upstairs. I ripped out the upstairs carpets myself: they all had what I THINK was particle board as an underlay - it was like some woodchip board, about 5mm thick with...

Hi, thanks for this guys. The damage is done as it were, the guys on site didn't seemed fussed about the possible asbestos. I've asked them to wear masks, I'm not on site so can't supervise beyond that. Are there health risks to other people visiting the house, after the dust has settled...

Hi all I recently bought a 3-bed Victorian semi-detached, with Artex-covered ceilings (the swirly pattern) on nearly all the ceilings. I don't live there currently and have got some guys working on the plastering. Their plan was to skim (and presumably bond first) the Artex - but having...