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I've now packed the gap with some foam and mortared over it so hopefully be ok for a while? It would be a nightmare digging out that drainage system as it's a narrow shared entryway to the back gardens. The sewer then goes underneath outbuildings where there is an outside toilet, before making...

It is a 1930s house so yes 90 ish years old. The repaired concrete around the soil stack is from a water pipe repair I had to get done last year. Here is a picture of this that I took at the time. You can see the soil stack bottom left of the photo, the clay pipe goes vertically downwards. I...

Another photo attached. There was a crippled up piece of plastic stuffed down there which was covering up this pretty large gap. I can smell the drains now.

Hi all. Cast iron soil stack, at the point it goes into the ground the joint has deteriorated so there is a gap. What do I put around this joint to reseal it please?

The internal loading you mean, from items I put in there? That's fine I can do that, obviously the structural wall and transference down of the roof load will be by far the heaviest thing sitting on the cantilever.

Hi, I am planning to build a garden outbuilding. Essentially to be used as a large shed/storage area. There used to be a concrete sectional garage on the site so there is an existing brick perimeter wall that this used to sit on, at ground level. The width of this foundation is 2.4m (8ft). So...

I was planning to use beading but it got too expensive to buy it, as I would have needed quite alot to bead around all of the panels on all sides of the construction. I dont have any tools that I can rip lengths of my own wood with. Ive now ordered a palm router and a 5mm straight bit. The PC...

Hi, I am building a back to wall mini greenhouse out of timber. The 'glazing' will be 4mm twin wall polycarbonate panels. I want to recess these panels into the timber framing. Either by rebating one of the timber edges so that the PC panel can be recessed in and secured by some screws, or by...

We've had the windows open all day today in the whole house. Humidity outside was about 59%, I put the meter outside to check. It's now 9pm and the windows have all been shut for a couple hours now and the meter is reading now 63% inside.

And mustyness? Are you saying its ok if my humidity meter reads 70-80%, if i am still ventilating the house as much as I can? That doesn't feel right, the healthy range is meant to be 40-60%.

I have the heating on normally, circa 20 degrees target in the winter. In the summer its not on at all, but I was still seeing humiditiy above 70% alot of the time, which I just am really struggling to reduce. I understand air will be coming in from outside, so is the solution to completely...

I do try and do that but it's a losing battle continually. If the dehumidifier is downstairs then the upstairs humidity rises, and vice versa. Do I need to be sealing up the house more if using the dehumidifier? All the airbricks, trickle vents etc?

As I said, there are airbricks already in the bedrooms. We also open the windows regularly, and I have an electrical dehumidifier running continually. It doesn't make sense why I can't get the humidity down.

Not sure which section to put this. We have a 1930s house, solid brick walls. I am struggling to control the humidity and mould. We have a dehumidifier, on almost all the time and removing 5+ litres of water a day. Yet the humidity gauge won't get below 60-70% I don't understand what is...

I wish they were 28-32mm boards - they are about 18mm thick that's all. I used a hand plane (hard work) and maybe got a couple mm of material off. I don't know if I could use SLC anyway as the whole floor appears to slightly slope down front to back. I don't think this is an issue for laminate...

Here is what I have been working on today, trying to take some material off the hump near the bay window.

I think trying that would create even more issues for me. There is not only a low spot in the centre of the room, there is a hump in the bay window area too, followed by another depression right near the window. Ive been working on that hump today, trying to plane off some material. And by...

They aren't nice over the whole room, alot of mismatched colour, damaged edges, cut t&G, plus the levelling issue. Also its noisy with them bare. Heres the whole room:

Ok here is where Im at with it. The middle is two layers in places, the outer edge being 3mm. Is 3mm still too much of a step change to fit the laminate floor onto? If so, I need to try and feather it out even thinner somehow, with a material of say 1mm thickness. I have considered...

Ok been trying a few things tonight after a trip to B&Q. I have shimmed one of the floorboards which was already cut before so was easy to access. Its lifted the lowest part by around 10mm. Then I have got some 9mm ply from the store, and approx a 400mm square piece of that will almost fill in...