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    Timber survey needed on house purchase?

    Level 3 survey on a 2-bed Victorian terrace has recommended 'PCA-registered joiner inspection of timbers for rot and woodworm'. The house is empty apart from kitchen units/oven and has no carpets or floor covering except on the stairs. Previous occupants used rugs over the floorboards/tiles...
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    Is tanking a basement a good idea?

    Looking at a couple of houses both ~1880, 2 storey terraces with basements. In one the basement looks untouched and has one obviously damp wall (the 'party wall' not the external one). The rest seems dry and there's no visual evidence of damp in the ground floor walls. There's quite a large...
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    Buying house with loft conversion w/o regs

    I put in an offer (cash) on a house which had been a 2-bed but the current owner had moved the bathroom into the 2nd bedroom and was in the process of finishing a loft conversion to make that the new official 2nd bedroom (it was already furnished as a bedroom). The works remaining at the time of...
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    Roof dipping cause?

    Is the dip on the lower part of the roof to the right of the chimney of concern? It's over a bathroom. There's no evidence of issue inside the room. Thanks!
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    Cause of damp around chimney breast in loft conversion

    Hi, is there a common cause of this sort of damp around a chimney breast? It's on the external side wall of a loft conversion in a Victorian semi. Mostly it is at the horizontal/vertical joins but there are some small patches on the face of the chimney breast as well. Thanks!
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