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I am not in the trade so will try to explain. Please keep answers simple too!! I live in a terraced house built in 1884 and due to the slope of the road, my house is one foot higher than next door. I got the exposed one foot of exposed gabling between our properties re-rendered last year due to...

What is best to aid reducation in size of the damp patch a) a dehumidifier or b) an air brick installed (looks like the original air-brick has been covered by a cupboard) albeit that it is 6 foot up the wall and well above the damp patch.

Some damp has appeared coming up from the floor in my kitchen after this relentless rain (never appeared before) - I note that the air brick which is about 6 foot from the floor has been impared by a fitted cupboard placed in front of it. What's best to aid the drying out of this damp...

Just a thought as the rain normally hits the house from the other side and there are two bricks for this rain to penetrate ... is that possible? It is not a cavity wall design.

My house was built in 1884, so well before damp proof course was the norm for houses. Some damp has been sucked up by the plaster low down up to about a foot from the floor, on the inside of the wall. What is the way forward - to strip off the plaster and treated the exposed brickwork with a...

Folks, Thanks for the replies and for somehow hooking up my photo (how did you do that??). Would I be right in thinking that there is no damp course in my house in the area visible in the photograph? A possibility as the back door has been moved from a few feet farther to the right at some stage...

Folks, I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to load a photo onto this web-site from my photo album. I go to "edit" and then to "upload new images" which leads me to my photo album ....................... but is there a button to upload just the photo I want from my album? No there is not...

http://www.diynot.com/network/phil1963/albums/ Does this show the photo of the outside?

Folks - after this wet summer a damp patch has emerged in my kitchen, although it is not too damp to the touch (see photo). Is this damp that has travelled upwards from the floor area? The other photo shows outoor and there appears to be no damage to the brick work (which is double thickness -...

Yes that's the cap-type thing what is on the roof folks (cheers for your help so far), Even if there was not a hatch once upon a time, would the damp sitting on the ledge on the inside of the chimney be enough to force its way through the brickwork to show up on the inside of the wall? If so...

Excuse ny ignorance on all things of an airflow nature, but the bottom of the chimney where the grate sits is open so surely enough air should pass up the chimney and out of the top so that condensation does not ccur?

Would it be a good idea to remove the plastered area through which the condensation is passing and put a brick in the gap and cement it in place?

I live in a Victorian house and there is an open chimney (not been used for ten years at least) and hearth in the main room. About seven feet up the wall in line with where the chimney make a 45 degree and then goes upwards (the angle allows dust that has fallen down the chimney to settle on the...

Yes the bricks do look like they have been laid onto dirt direct - hmmm may have to get them covered with something else then. Any ideas?

Not sure that this is the right catergory .... but ..... the previous owners of my abode laid the floor of the rear yard (size 4 yards by 3 yards) with brick. Not only is this rather slippery in the winter, but in the summer weeds grown up rapidly between the said bricks as they were not laid...

The previous owners of my cold Victorian terraced house put the thermostat at the top of the stairs depsite any hot air generated from the heater in the ground-floor hallway going pass the said thermostat, up into the attic and out through the roof. Thus the boiler is always being called on the...

Under duress and following some rude texts from the builder, he gave me the name of the scaffolders (but not their ph number) and after much detective work, I found them and on payment they took it down this week within two days. Looks like had I not paid them I could have got some travellers to...

Can rain get under the flashing where it meets the tiles and creep along under the tile and into the brickwork or am I unnecessarily worrying?

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