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hi all, I am renovating a house and there appears to be every aspect of wood decay here, but lets start with this one. it was likey wet from above for a while (months-years?) it appears solid to knock but this white stuff is covering a large area. I'm wondering what is is, and if to...

hi all, After doing a lot of mixing and stuff to do with mortar and plasters I notice there is usually a sandy residue in the bottom of the bucket, and any water I pour away will obviously contain some of this sand. I've been tipping it out back in the yard, but this runs off into a normal...

Thought I'd post some links on my own question. I found these useful guides. indepth article http://www.heidelbergcement.com/NR/rdonlyres/1A42AFE4-CCB9-4353-AD22-CF5399F818BD/0/HansonNaturalHydraulicLimeNHLDataSheet.pdf summary guide of the above info...

Thanks for the links guys, but the original questions although probably waffled alot was about mixing my own lime vs buying ready made? I wanted to know if its fairly straightforward or incredibly difficult without a century of experience? thanks

joe, I'm sure with over 25k posts in your belt you must have something useful to add, or are all your posts simply like the one above?

hi all, after an earlier post which pointed me in the direction of Lime Mortar rather then cement for my old walls. I've been looking at the options and I'd like to go down the route of this...

joe, what the hell are you going on about? pine has been really helpful providing truly useful information, he hasn't judged my question in any way unlike some, and has in no way promoted or singled out any company/forum. the website/company at lime.org looks like a great range of products...

hi pinenot, funny I was just reading about lime-hemp-plaster, I'm going to speak the chaps at http://www.lime.org.uk/ next week as they appear to have all the products I will require. Just need to understand which ones i need. this whole listed/old building thing is a pain in the rear for...

oh I forgot one point, is this lime mortar case the same even with internal/party walls?

thanks pinenot, guess I need to look into this lime mortar mix then! your comment about open fires is interesting because all our fireplaces are bricked up, we are looking to put in a combi boiler and radiators so I hope this wont be to much of an issue. so assuming I go ahead and repoint...

hi, I've got this house, its 150-400 years old in different places. one of the oldish bits has terrible condition brickwork, you can pull the bricks out by hand and the mortar just blows away. I've been replacing it all so far with a standard cement/home sand/yellow sand mix. I just want to...

hi All I have a large(ish) (4x8m) mixed concrete floor, mixed as its slab, screed and part wood. I want to finish this room with a wooden floor and install some insulation to help keep it a bit warmer. So first off I'm thinking about laying battens down 70mm, installing a 20mm airgap and...

just doing up a property and some d**k decided the best thing to do would be to 'paint' out all the windows. I'm struggling to find a way to remove this without scratching the windows. The windows are big panes and have quite thick white paint on them. cheers for any help.