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Thanks Stuart. I’ve had a quick look briefly and it looks like it’s more an order in kind of think than pop down to brewers..

Perfect... I might do the inside sooner then and it won’t delay decorating inside too much. Do you know of a recommended breathable paint at all or is lime washing the brickwork outside the way to go?

Brilliant, thanks Stuart. I might get the brick work back in and hold off the pointing until the spring then.. the pointing has failed all the way through the bricks due to the leak we had underground.. I’ve pulled the plaster off, so when I re point outside can I re do the inside to just as the...

Brill.. thanks John! Am I right in thinking I’m best to avoid doing it in the cold?? That does put me in a bit of a dilemma because I do need to fit some bricks back round my new toilet pipe and waste pipes and so using lime may delay this..?? I don’t know...

Lime mortar it is then... is the techniques much different than cement? Just out of interest, what breathable paint did you use John? It’d save me a whole heap of of work trying to clean them off...

Brilliant, thankyou, and do you think that although the house has stood for years having been pointed in cement it would be better to re do it in lime?? Particularly the lower parts?

Ok Stuart. Thanks. Am I right I’m thinking from the year the property was built and the type of bricks then the mortar should be lime?

Thanks John.. I’ll give the vinegar a go. Is there any point in me repointing it with lime now??

Hi there, Having repaired my underground drainage, I’m looking to repoint the wall. It’s been suggested to me by a builder quoting that the mortar is cement based but my terrace house was built in 1890 so I expected it to be lime. Ive taken a few pics, and I appreciate it’s difficult to tell...

wow!!.. paint it is then..

Its a 2 storey mid terrace, £60/£70 for dulux weather shield seems good to get it looking at least a bit smarter..

Thanks for your response Opps. Its a huge wall, so my initial idea was to paint it and see how it turned out, but Im guessing it would cost a fortune in paint. Is the process you talked about above an expensive task for a trader to come and do? Im just thinking of which one would be more cost...

Hi there.. We've just had some drainage work done, and after finally getting the all clear of no more leaks, we want to do up our courtyard. Whilst we wait for the damp to dry out some and re point, I was wanting to clean off the horrific job someones done of painting and clearly changing...

Hi there.. For some months we have had a damp mark in our kitchen, which is on the exterior wall, rising up about 12 inches at it highest point. Outside, the bricks up to a certain point show signs of damp. Our toilet and underground drainage all operate in this area, and as a result of the...

Thanks for your reply!! I’ve literally just been reading about something similar after googling what I wanted to do.. sounds like a plan..

We did consider it, but the other factors to move are parking, (we’re a mid terrace with on street parking) schools and we have 3 girls, who we’re quickly running out of space to accommodate all of their stuff..

Hello all... I’d like to try and sort our loft out, as at the moment when we open the drop down hatch, we get showered in debris and dust which is, I assume, being created when the wind whips up. I appreciate a new roof would be the ideal and have felt laid under new tiles but if I’m honest we...

We don’t get standing water no, it’s just really claggy... and is not noticed until I dug the underground drains out to do the work... I was intending on putting more gravel to cover the pipe work but didn’t know if filling the whole lot with gravel would help and whether the sand/ballast would...

Hi there, I don't really know if this is the right forum to put this.. I have just dug out quite a large area of our courtyard of our mid terrace house. The courtyard is full of sand that I think was mixed with a bit of ballast whenever it was done judging by the odd stone in it.... The issue...

Thanks just pumps... in that post I get what the member Richard the third was saying about just fit it...lol.. I’ve sat here all evening fretting about will the thing come off, what to do if it doesn’t, how can I repair it without trying to take it off.... it’s driving me mad... lol.