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As above. Or moisture has penetrated past the door or from under the door threshold perhaps?

Pics would help. Has the floor been waxed or otherwise finished? Was the floor surface "bloom" fee before the plastering - are you certain?

Its a strange "builder" who asks the customer to source his materials. How do you know that this "he's not a roofer" has done any roofing at all in the past? Screwing down slates is rarely done except for very particular conditions. Copper nails are excellent & commonly used fixings. Removing...

OP, To do a proper job you will have to: Remove all the hearth concrete surface - thats all the concrete. Lift the board immediately in front of the hearth. Remove the hearth infill to 150mm below the joists - including infill between the short stubby joists. Remove the fender bricks to 150mm...

The new treated skirting has to go higher than 50mm. The skirting can be kept off the floor by a few mm's. Only you on site can determine the state of the floor but I'd just go ahead & relay the carpet, & keep an eye on it.

Did the damp man suggest the cause of your damp and its history? Your pics show signs of damp on two walls. The skirting and the plaster do suggest that previous remedial repairs have taken place. You should remove the plaster back to masonry to a height of 1m along both walls. Re-plaster with...

OP, The RH side of the roof is butted against a parapet, & looks to be "flashed" with S&C pointed-in tiles - lead flashing should have been used (like the LH parapet side) but if there are no leaking problems then fine, leave alone. The RH fascia is showing water stains - the roof edge/fascia/...

There's the possibility that the old flow & return pipes have been merely capped off, and dead legs of water have been left in position? Any old pipes still connected to anything should be capped off at source, and all water drained. F&R pipes typically ran up to the cylinder position in an...

For a few reasons thats a scaffold job. A professionally erected & dismantled scaff. Dont attempt to DIY fool around with a tower. OP, there are a number of other remedial issues in your pic - if you want comment on them then just say so?

Do all similar neighbouring houses have the same render & Tyrolean finish? As suggested above, the black paint is doing you no favours. Perhaps both the white & the black paints are oil based plastic paints - they look too shiny for masonry wash. But maybe thats just my view? Is the wall...

Photos of the outside and the inside of the room/vent would help. Please show detail, and the whole wall with the vent and blown p/b. Is that outside wall solid?

FWIW: I've recently posted a number of replies to similar posts, & there's a mass of other similar threads in the search box.

4500 - no kidding, Gee Whiz. They just wont listen. Given that you are on a roll with the statistics, perhaps you've personally met these 4500 unfortunates who, through wilful ignorance, somehow missed your one fibre alarm, anyhow would you, just for the stats, tell the forum how many people...

Are you sane? On a DIY site you are complaining about people having opinions? As for colour fade - well yes, over a long time even bricks and mortar will fade in sunlight but the OP's concern was more immediate, & seems to have been accepted as a manufacturing issue. Given your constant...

Repetition & rubbish are well tedious but compounded with misinformation your post becomes pretty crap - so yes, it really does matter.

The coni roof man, What crap you are babbling - are you nuts? According to your "one asbestos fibre" theory everyone on the planet should stop breathing - just to be on the safe side. And all householders who paint over artex ceilings should wear space suits and have a licence. And just in...

If you attempt to provide a barrier then you could end up with more moisture being pushed up the wall. There's also moisture penetrating the wall brickwork below the level of the FFL and the tanking.

The moisture is finding the line of least resistance as it rises from below - ie the join at the slab and the wall. Its probable that using damp proofing sealants will only disperse the moisture differently and perhaps more intensely. You will not dry out the slab. The affected perimeter of...

OP, Your CI guttering is sat on a bed of sand & cement - after the vulnerable joins, the flat base of that gutter is most at risk from decay. When you next have occasion to lift or paint the gutter then carefully examine the base - if its perishing then replace it, hopefully with similar heavy...

OP, Is the wall in question a solid or a cavity wall? Is there render on the outside? Was there a musty smell in the bedroom? Was there any staining on the wallpaper in either room? Why not remove a length of the bedroom skirting, and examine the back of the skirting for decay? FWIW: your 1907...