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Been looking and haven't found anyone yet. Looked at a buying a sandblasting unit myself but they seem to need a hefty compressor to power them, so the pots themselves are quite reasonably priced but the compressor would be expensive. Also it seems the media is quite expensive at £25 per 25kg...

Yeah I'm using a wire brush in drill now, in combination with more paint stripper chemical and a brick cleaner. It's working but the bricks will never be normal colour again I don't think. Maybe once Ive got the brick repairs and repointing work done I'll consider having the whole wall rendered.

Hi, I am considering getting roof ridge tiles replaced as the bedding mortar is coming out in places. Have been advised to go for dry ridge system. Also there is a small bay window flat roof to re felt due to deterioration. 2 sq m that's all. The house has a lot of ridge tiles as the roof is...

Im not having much luck getting quotes. I have one quote which was to replace low level bricks that are damaged (at/near to ground level), and brick up small window, areas of repointing around the vicinity. That was £1k including materials (estimated 2-3 days work). Another guy has let me down...

Thanks. One of my main concerns is that the mortar is so fragile. I could just keep scraping and it comes out like sand. So I could repoint like an inch all the way, but if the middle is like sand, what does this mean? Do o just keep scraping it out and filling ever deeper voids or what?

If the mortar is literally falling out, and I can get my whole set of fingers inside the void left by the mortar, the brick is essentially just floating there. The gutters are 'ok-ish' but do need some future attention. I had them all cleaned out of debris a few months back as some areas were...

Yes and I was intended to do some repointing work myself on other areas of the house. This seemed more urgent and far more damaged than a bit of repointing. * Below ground level damage * large voids in brickwork * missing bricks (patched in with big areas of mortar) * a visual droop in that...

Hi is the consensus still that it just needs repointing please, or is anyone thinking different? Do I need to dig out deeper around the house to check the condition of the sub-surface bricks? Do you repoint sub-surface bricks in the same way as above ground bricks? What can I do about the...

This slab was angled down towards the house instead of away from it. Water comes down the slope at the side of the house and pools in this area, flowing towards the house. I have removed the slab and broken out the old gulley kerbstones today. The old mortar in some areas is falling out...

I have no way to know. No obvious signs at ground level.

Its been overpointed numerous times by the looks of it, very badly. There are also lots of holes where pipes have come out of the kitchen in the past, that have been patched in with mortar. There is a bulge in the bottom of the wall at the corner, and the corner below ground level is very badly...

Hi, I have some very deteriorated brickwork on the corner of my house at ground level, possibly below and a few courses above. Pictures below. I think I need to get the corner rebuilt. Ive been in touch with a local builder and sent some photos. Can anyone offer any advice please, to help me...

I've now packed the gap with some foam and mortared over it so hopefully be ok for a while? It would be a nightmare digging out that drainage system as it's a narrow shared entryway to the back gardens. The sewer then goes underneath outbuildings where there is an outside toilet, before making...

It is a 1930s house so yes 90 ish years old. The repaired concrete around the soil stack is from a water pipe repair I had to get done last year. Here is a picture of this that I took at the time. You can see the soil stack bottom left of the photo, the clay pipe goes vertically downwards. I...

Another photo attached. There was a crippled up piece of plastic stuffed down there which was covering up this pretty large gap. I can smell the drains now.

Hi all. Cast iron soil stack, at the point it goes into the ground the joint has deteriorated so there is a gap. What do I put around this joint to reseal it please?

The internal loading you mean, from items I put in there? That's fine I can do that, obviously the structural wall and transference down of the roof load will be by far the heaviest thing sitting on the cantilever.

Hi, I am planning to build a garden outbuilding. Essentially to be used as a large shed/storage area. There used to be a concrete sectional garage on the site so there is an existing brick perimeter wall that this used to sit on, at ground level. The width of this foundation is 2.4m (8ft). So...

I was planning to use beading but it got too expensive to buy it, as I would have needed quite alot to bead around all of the panels on all sides of the construction. I dont have any tools that I can rip lengths of my own wood with. Ive now ordered a palm router and a 5mm straight bit. The PC...

Hi, I am building a back to wall mini greenhouse out of timber. The 'glazing' will be 4mm twin wall polycarbonate panels. I want to recess these panels into the timber framing. Either by rebating one of the timber edges so that the PC panel can be recessed in and secured by some screws, or by...