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Hi, My house has suspended floors, so all the heating pipework has been done subfloor downstairs, with rising pipework to each radiator. At the back of the house a drain valve has been installed which has been put through an outdoor airbrick. See picture. Obviously the fact it's outside means...

Do you think it really needs 3 airbricks there? Could I get away with deleting the middle one?

Render is off. Red paint underneath now also mostly removed using a 40 grit flap disc. The brickwork here is pretty poor, whoever fitted the french doors did a poor job as it should have been repaired properly when the doors/windows were out. Repointing tomorrow.

If I only cut out to the DPC level then that will leave those three airbricks proud. It looks like they were installed at the same time as the render was done, as they are flush with it. If breaking off all the render I would be replacing the airbricks with single plastic ones as I have done on...

I have some render on a small section of wall around some french doors as per picture below. Its been painted with a horrible thick paint over many layers and years. Its also rendered over DPC nearly to ground level, actually it was below the level of the paving that was there that Ive started...

Hi, Been doing some more work on the exterior of my house. Ive had areas of water damaged brickwork replaced, stripped horrible thick paint from large sections of wall, had a section of wall professionally repointed, and Ive repointed a section of a wall myself too. Im now lifting pretty old...

How do you tell if loft is ventilated enough? On my 30s house there are no dedicated soffit vents and it's been felted. But presumably it won't be air tight, there will be gaps in places I imagine and there are old cables and pipes through in places.

When its colder outside we get condensation forming on the bedroom windows in the morning when we wake up (in our bedroom, plus in the other bedroom we don't use, it happens there too, so its not only the breathing that is causing it). These are fairly modern double glazed windows with trickle...

I have a similar problem. 1930s solid wall house. Just cant seem to get humidity down. We're constantly in the 70% humidity range even with the heating on. There's no obvious cause. A couple of gutters drip slightly in heavy rain, but nothing significant. There are airbricks and trickle vents...

I have one of those slightly curved brick jointer tools to smooth it out with.

Hi, Lots of conflicting information online on this topic. I have a mid 1930s house with solid brick walls and I need to repoint. I am doing one area currently but eventually the whole house needs doing. Sections have been done in the past (before I owned it) and it looks like they've used a...

Here's more photos of the area.

Im not proposing to, why do you think I am? The water that lands on the shared access path between the houses needs to flow downhill, round the corner into my back gate, round the corner infront of my back doorstep, and then down my patio onto my grass. That's the only path it can go downhill.

The guttering drip needs to be fixed yes but it's not terrible and isn't directly causing any of the water pooling. It's just the lie of the ground as there was no continuous fall away from the area to direct water on the ground away. Even just normal rain falls onto the path then sits there as...

Are you saying 45 degree cuts in a paving slab in order to get a fall in two directions? I'm not sure whether to put paving slabs there or just lay a concrete pad. Then I can shape the pad to fall in the direction I want. I do have some dripping guttering up at the roof too. Problem is I can't...

It's the neighbour house. We share a side access 1m wide. All the guttering downpipes, kitchen wastes and bathroom wastes go into a shared drain/sewer running down the centre of this access. The neighbours house is slightly higher than mine so there is a step up into their back gate. So I can't...

Ok understood. Can I just ask a couple of clarification questions then please. The area in question is round a corner of an outhouse and is only narrow. If I slope a slab or concrete away from the house (which obviously I want to do) it would be sloping towards the outhouse. Does this matter...

Ok thanks. I'm aware that either gulleys or acco drains are available, but the advice I need really is which option to choose or how to go about the job. I can't re lay the existing slabs to achieve the level of the existing gully because they would have to be lifted quite a lot and over a...

Thanks but not sure why you have just linked me to a website that doesn't even ship to UK, and I'm still none the wiser on how to actually install some additional drainage I.e what configuration to use in my diagram above?

Hi, I have water pooling in the area shown on the plan below. This is what caused my brickwork damage in this thread which Ive now had repaired and repointed. But I need to sort the drainage somehow. Does anyone have any advice please? Water pools in the area shown in blue. The existing...