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    Plasterboard used as a fire check.

    Hi guys - sorry if this isn't quite 'DIY' based, but me and a builder at our work are confused by this piece of information. In a showroom thats having a refit, the existing plasterboard that is boxed around a girder in the ceiling is there as a firecheck. Some of the plaster has superficial...
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    Bulge in Cellar Wall

    Thanks for all replies ; As mentioned, I have learnt from the neighbours that the pathway between the two houses used to be in poor condition where the problem in the cellar is. If the concrete was broken up and in poor condition, and allowing water run off from the garden to come down the...
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    Bulge in Cellar Wall

    Hi - thanks for replying tim00. The next door neighbour's cellar has been filled in, and the external wall is even and level. There used to be a problem in the pathway along the alley, and apparently, according the the neighbour, the path was concrete that had sunk due to the concrete breaking...
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    Bulge in Cellar Wall

    Hi all - I'm buying a property which was built around 1895. Its a terraced house, but as you look at the property from the front, the left side of the house has an alleyway giving access down the side of my house into the back garden. Along this wall used to be a door which at some point in...
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