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From your drawing, I would suggest you need to take a look in the loft, use a strong bright light and check the location of the chimney and look all round it if you can.

When mortar is mixed, air is also mixed into the sand and cement. Water is able to rise by capillary action though the air bubbles to a height of 4 feet above contact with the ground.

Rising damp is caused by: Earth being placed against a wall and touching the wall above the damp proof course. The damp proof course being damaged, cracked or badly installed. Just because someone writes they have never seen rising damp, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. You can also...

As the insulation is not very thick, you will probably get away with it. However, cutting through plasterboard with a Stanley knife is quite easy, I recommend, glue the board in place, then cut out a couple of strips the size of the radiator supports, fix the wood to the wall, then the...

Fit some blocks of wood to the wall, the same thickness as the insulation plus plasterboard, then fix the radiator to the wooden blocks. Wood is a reasonable insulator, not as good as foam, but you need the strength as radiator plus water is a lot of weight.

For that small patch I would use self levelling cement.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ You are very negative! Once installed, insulation lasts the life of the building. That no only improves comfort, it saves money. You have choices......be cold miserable, with money in the bank? Be warm and comfortable all year round at much lower cost!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Until he buys the stuff, that request is impossible! Another old one.

If you sit on the floor, you will find it quiet cold and uncomfortable. If you then place a 1/2 inch thick layer of polystyrene on the floor, and sit on it, you will find the floor warmer more comfortable. The best way to insulate a floor is to lay sheets of polystyrene, or Styrofoam over it...

Interesting thing insulation. When it comes to floors, keep in mind that our body temperature is about 30C. The average floor is about 17-19C. This means that heat is moving from your feet into the floor, the whole time you are standing or sitting. Putting the insulation as close to the heat...

Insulating a room is an interesting project. Keep in mind that usually the purpose of insulating a room, is to retain as much heat as possible within the room. If you line the walls with Celotex PL3000, you merely heat the air in the room and the plasterboard lining. Celotex PL3000 is fixed...

Damp only rises 4 feet from the supply of water, ie;usually the ground.

If the chimney is a single stand alone chimney then take it down. If it is part of a multiple set of chimneys that terminate above the roof as a group, then it will support itself. Ask yourself a question, do you use any of a group, if you do not, get rid of them. The front of a chimney is...

Your picture isn't very helpful. Please confirm that the chimney has been removed above the roof? If it has not been removed, get rid of it before you remove the chimney in the room below. Bricks weigh 45kilos a cubic foot, a chimney contains a lot of bricks, is very heavy and dangerous. If...

Jal, the dot and dab idea is not always the best way. Brick layers are often mean with their mortar and leave thousands of small holes in the walls. With dot and dab you may have cold air blowing between the insulation and the bricks. A better way is to wet plaster the wall first to make sure...

It will be behind the wardrobe!

Your intended use will cause the garage to collapse. Better fix up something that is free standing and self supporting.

If you put your hand on a sheet of polystyrene, you will quickly feel the heat reflected back. Simply lining the room with sheets of polystyrene will slow the heat loss and make the most of whatever heat you put in there. May I suggest that you look at quartz halogen, placed in the centre of...

=========================== In your average room the floor surface temperature mimics the close by air temperature. However our feet measure about 30C.....therefore heat is always moving down out of our feet into the floor. Choosing a floor covering with a high resistance to heat flow slows...

Its simple really, you cook, wash, breath, sweat....all this and other things add water vapour to the air in your home. Water vapour is programmed to condense on the nearest cold surface, that corner of your room. You can either, fit and use extractor fans in the kitchen and bathroom, keep...