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...which only works if air can get in elsewhere. Which can be difficult in a modern house.

I've curtailed my involvement with this forum for the new year, it's a very bitter school playground. It's self-selecting, only the people who think this kind of behaviour is OK hang around here, anyone with any decency quietly slips away. So you end up with highly concentrated weirdos...

They built some crap in the 1970s. Especially those things where they only have end walls just enough brickwork to hold the roof up and hopefully slow a fire down, the front and back are a timber frame with plasterboard on the inside and tiles nailed onto the outside. They don't seem to be...

The three storey houses are a joke. 4 double bedrooms, two per floor upstairs so enough for a decent sized household, but the downstairs is also the size of two double bedrooms. Most newbuilds feel like caravans to me. Anything from 1950-1990 will be much better. You get the cavity walls...

...but then the door would protrude into the kitchen. The real problem is that there's too much stuff in not enough space.

I'd want to move that kitchen/hall door to the other side of the toilet. But regulations don't require this any more.

My NTL/Virgin install had two cables up from the ground-level box to the loft. One was white the other black, guess that was what happened to fall out of the van on the day. I always thought their internet service was slow, although speedtest did show fast speeds. When I switched to...

Nope. There was one coax cable originally for analogue TV - clear TV aerial style channels for free-to-air, plus scrambled channels you needed to pay for. There was also a separate phone line, identical to a BT phone line. They laid a figure-8 cable, with the phone line attached to the coax...

Could you post some photos? If it's outdoors I'd be thinking stainless screws - presumably the original ones have rusted through in 20 years, so any standard ones used now will need replacing about when you're organising your baby's wedding. Pre-drill for stainless, as they're a little softer...

Mine was around Southampton, NTL. This was early 2000s. All the digital TV and internet was running, but the analogue channels were still there too. A heck of a lot of stuff in one cable.

I bought some garage floor tiles a few years ago - solid plastic things, about 10mm thick with dimpled surface that slot together like jigsaw pieces. They were just plain grey on the outside, but when I cut them I found they were full of short bits of cable insulation, all semi-melted together...

I took a reel of Cat 5 networking cable (similar to a phone line) to the local scrap place. They've paid for it by weight before a few years ago, but this time around they said they won't, as there's too little copper in relation to the plastic. They'll only pay for power cables, where the...

When I had Virgin (Fnnaah!) 10 years ago, it was FTTC, coax from the cabinet for data/TV and twisted pair for telephone. Each connection needed two separate cables. I don't know whether the telephone combined with the rest at the cabinet or carried on separately, it was all a bit of a mess...

Pretty sure all BT's cabling is just ducted, if they make any branches they do it in the cabinets. Anyway, the fact is they're getting billions from the stuff, so they must be pulling it out.

I can't keep track of who's in what gang and who's fallen out with who for what. It's got bugger all to do with Reform's policies though!

Power/lighting cables are usually armoured and just buried, but isn't BT's cabling normally in ducts? The bloke who installed our VDSL said they'd had an incident at one where someone had broken into the cabinet, attached the cables to a tractor and pulled it all out of the underground ducts...

You'd need to check the policies of the skip company. Artex is the lowest amount of the lowest risk, it's almost not there. But I agree with the above - it doesn't even look like Artex. We've got it, it's smooth and spikey, like whipped cream - not gritty. Definitely get it tested.

There's no chance of any telecoms operator using copper again... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/29/bt-recycling-deal-surplus-copper-cables

Makes absolutely no sense, but whatever. (y)lefty dipsticks click to agree with any old rubbish from one of your mob that sounds like an insult

Another option is to board over it, leaving it underneath. Subject to the joists being strong enough. The old board will add stiffness and insulation, for free. The artex will be permanently sealed in, so risk-free. You can also use insulated plasterboard to get super-warm insulation, I did...