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    Repainting badly painted brick wall

    The rear part of my Victorian house is built of brick. Regrettably, some years ago someone decided to smear it with concrete slurry (0-3mm) and paint over the top. It then went pretty green with algae. Prior to selling to me, the owner repainted in a plastic masonry paint, which has more or...
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    Boxing in a boiler in a kitchen

    I have a 10-year-old combi boiler in my kitchen which I would like to box in because it's quite ugly. I looked in the manual and found the following diagram. There is a warning in the Service Clearances section that I should "...not restrict this space with the addition of cupboards, shelves...
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    Replace shaped bricks in bay window column

    Hi, I recently bought a late Victorian house in North Cornwall. The prevailing wind has been racing in off the Atlantic and has for years been stripping away at the brickwork on the front elevation. The brickwork around the bay windows is particularly badly spalled. In a couple of places, the...
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