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This may not apply to you; In a general sense, humidity will condense on the coldest spots. When the weather gets very cold, where there is plenty of insulation, it will stay warm, but where there is insulation missing the cold spots my act like a magnet to damp air condensing on those points...

Hi I want to put blinds up speedily, cheaply and with minimum fuss as quite a lot of them ( i.e. prefer not to have to use battens) I have sash windows. On one of the windows I want to put it on the architrave surface mounted at the top. The architrave may be ogee ?? At the top edge of the...

I used my own pot of Zinseer coverstain and hey presto the stains are blocked. I wonder what they did use, or just 3rd time lucky...

Great tip about cleaning brush etc. I will be trying some more stain block after hols

Hi Its a ceiling. Not much rain recently so should have dried out.

Thanks for input and helpful info. I read somewhere that when a plumber needed to raise floorboards on an install they used a crowbar to raise the screwed down floorboards and ruined the boards/joists. So I need to have the correct screwdriver ready ! just in case

Carpenter used star head spax screws to fix trad floorboards to joists. i don't have a star screwdriver so what do I need to buy if I need to raise a board? Totally confused as not much clarity about what size these screwdriver kits are and if compatible. I don't speak the language Do plumbers...

:)(y)(y) I googled it and Sanderson have already used it (one of the wallpapers in the V&A) so think again !

Thanks for input. Would you be able to say more ?

I've chucked the pieces now. They had lime plaster on the back so they felt substantial with layers of paint, but just seemed like embossed 'wallpaper' to me.

Fabulous story Pete. So that sounds like it means it's a pre-1963 pattern. I'm quite sad that my wallpaper's days are likely limited now. It looked great until the accident.

What about open windows too

The plaster they use stops any damp coming through

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/rising-damp-is-a-myth-says-former-rics-chief

Hope you can see it; very faint. Don't think its mould. Looks like water stain One of the stains is almost in the middle of the picture, to the right of centre They used Zinsser cover stain twice

Hi I had some brownish stains come through ceiling in the back bedroom a year or 2 ago, edwardian terrace, about 30cm away from the edge of a chimney breast. This happened during times of torrential downpour with high winds when a lot of houses leaked that do not usually. At least I thought so...

Are they cracks (i.e. splits) , or places were the wallpaper has lifted. for me it's hard to tell from the photo

Trying to match it; trying anyway It would be interesting if any old hands recognise it even if not available Someone did a Frank Spencer on the ceiling

While I was away builder put foot through ceiling of lounge from bedroom above where floorboards were being repaired Edwardian house, lime plaster and lath ceiling He says he can put up plasterboard and skim to patch the hole. I am concerned for the integrity of the ceiling, now that it has...