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I am in the process of buying an old house, which I love, however am a bit worried and could do with some advice. The house is a beautiful character property and if it was more "done up" we wouldn't be able to afford one of its size. However, the ceilings look uneven and are wallpapered over...

Hello, I have recently noticed a crack in the outside wall of our house. It appears to run along the mortar lines of the bricks (the brick work is pretty old). We also have some damp patches that appear on the inside wall in heavy rain (which I am wondering if this is penetrating damp coming...

Hello, About four months ago I paid around £3,000 for extensive damp works to my ground floor flat (plaster stripped back, DPC injected, replastered.) They did a really bad job with the plaster and didn't look after my house well at all. On one wall the damp has returned in a line where...

Hello, Hopefully this is the right forum for my dilemma. I recently moved into a 1900s end of terrace ground floor flat which had damp problems. We had a new DPC injected, replastered and also fixed a few things like installing vents in closed up fireplaces. However, a few small damp...

Hello, I am considering using leak sealant in my central heating system to fix what I suspect is a small leak. (There was a small weeping leak in what I think is a compression joint in a copper pipe - plumbers tightened and we thought they had fixed it, we had it covered up, now we suspect...