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My house is the usual shape Victorian terraced. With the side return. The ground floor is on two levels you step down to what is now a kitchen diner at the rear. The ground level seems to have bee risen also and there is no sign of any airbrick in the rear side return. I will install one, but...

£10-£15 per square metre is the going rate i think.

I want to learn and practice plastering on some block walls in my garden. Should i coat the walls first? I would like it if i can knock it off easy so i can re-apply and keep practicing.

OK thank you guys.

I do not really like the branded 'decking timber' you find in the big sheds with the grooves in. Can i use plain timbers? My mother has the grooved stuff and its slippery as anything so if the grooves are there they are not doing much. Would should i look for that will last externally kiln dried...

My new house had a crazy paving style front yard. when laid they raised the ground level covering the slate DPC and level with the air bricks making it easy for rain water to run in. There is damp on the wall and this is the culprit i suspect. The house is on a hill and if i lower the ground...

My new house has raised the ground level of the house and covered airbricks and the original DPC. I plan on digging this out back to ground level and put some drainage in. I'm worried i will put a spade through the mains wire coming in or pipe work or something. Would a live wire and pipe...

Thank you everyone.

I've had a damp guy in regarding a dpc. He mentions suspected fungal decay in joists but as not lifted the floorboards to find out. Is it any way he could tell this without lifting floorboards?

I assumed that was what they would do just patch in the bottom. So they quote I've received might be to have the walls skimmed after? I'll have to get on to the company.

Thats why i'm worried. I would like nice new walls how good a job is a damp guy likely to do of plastering wall? I was considering hacking off myself then get the injections done then get a plasterer in i know does a nice job?

I dont know I better ask. I thought wet plastering was a dying art.

OK thank you. Should i get them to just do the half wall then get a prober plasterer in for the skimming?

I'm in a process i purchasing a house. The survey as come back with high damp reading. I've just had a damp guy in who recommends a damp proof course. I do no like the idea of them just re-plastering half the wall will this just look rubbish? I'm considering hacking all the plaster off myself...

There are steps down to the kitchen diner so there is no levels to match up and can afford to lose the height. This maybe a option thank you.

Yeah i thought that but then i read a article of kitchen diners and they recommended them?

I do not like the tiles so would replace them anyway. I thought it might be nice to car the wood right through the ground floor.

I have lovely floorboards in my new house except in the kitchen diner, where there are tiles. How would i go about laying reclaimed floorboards? I understand the need air circulation so would i have to lay joists and mount on them? Can you rip the tiles up and lay them on cement? Could be...

Thank you, I'll do some research.

How would I find that out. Would the carport not be classed as a development?