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Hi I have an out building which I have made into a store room and utility - not attached to the house. The bottom meter was rendered and it was flaking off . On removal some brick were missing - flaking until disintegrated. A builder replaced those brick that were too far gone and rendered the...

Hi Update. The smell has gone. I'm not sure why - it went before I got the dehumidifier. I removed the bricks (no smell from air gap). I also borrowed a dehumidifier - I got 125ml of water for 8 hours use the first day, then used every other day and got about 5-8ml for 2 hours use. I don't...

Hi So I took out two bricks in the wall between the cellar and front room air gap (about 3foot gap between floor & floorboards)- not an easy job and it looks dry. Not knowing how high the front was compared to the cellar I took out bricks high up & cant get to touch the ground but no smell of...

Hi Thanks for all the suggestions. To answer a few points the floor boards are the old fashioned straight type ie not t&G and not covered ie no carpet etc. I varnished a year ago could it have taken this long to show up? The airbricks are free from debri. If I took a sample of the...

Hi We have been living in an old (1896 I think) small semi for years no problem. Now (last 4 weeks) as we enter the font door we can smell damp. We have 2 air bricks on the front wall and 2 on the side wall. The house is effectively a 2up/2down. The damp seems to be coming from the front...

Hi all, I am going to attempt to lay a retaining wall using Tarmac 100 concrete blocks.I will lay them back down to give better strength. It is 9 m long by 1m high so I've calculated 200 blocks. I bought 1 ton of sand and 10 bags of cement, but now i'm wondering if I have under ordered. I don't...