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Thanks. I've logged a request with my water board to test.

For reasons that are too longwinded to explain here, I'm going to have to get my supply pipe replaced. Currently 25mm Alkathene enters by the front door and runs approx. 10m in 15mm to the back of the house where it splits off to the taps, appliances and combi boiler. My question is: do you...

Thanks @bobasd and others for your opinions, so I've taken your advice, and the usual remedy seems to be tanking to above the DPC then plaster over. I'll talk to my plasterer mate and see if he's familiar with the process. I would love to have a nice suspended wooden floor and then lime...

I have a Victorian end terrace that has been a bit neglected over the years, that's not to say not modernised, but done so unsympathetically. The main living space at ground floor has a concrete floor which extends from side to side of the original house through the hallway. The rear of the...

Hmm, I fear getting a bit sidetracked here, but the drains run towards the back of the house and the water supply runs above the slab at the side of my hallway, so I don't think they're the reason for the dampness on the internal wall. It's a 3 way junction just off middle of the slab, so I...

I own a 1900s Victorian end terrace. My side wall is on the boundary and adjoins 4 neighbouring plots of an adjacent road. On clearing out the end neighbors garden yesterday, in preparation for some minor render repairs, I noticed that it's in much worse state than I first thought in places, so...