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Thanks so much for your help. One final question. As you can (probably see) from the photo, the mortar isn't too bad. Do you think I should just re-point anyway or do you think it's just the weather? I don't mind re-pointing but I'm not whether that is the best action as I'm not sure if...

Hi, Thanks for the advice. I've attached an image of both the inside and outside of the wall in question. You can see outside that there are fine black lines. I don't know if these are just that the wall needs a good clean/is old or weather the brickwork is actually damaged? Cheers...

Hi, Firstly thanks for the advice. I should have been clearer in my explanation. My house was built circa 1930 and is of single, solid brick construction. Therefore the is no cavity and hence no cavity wall insulation. Any advice welcome. Cheers.

Hi, I live in an end terraced house. The exterior facing wall at the end of the house is showing some signs of penetrating time = cold to the touch, wrinkling wall paper etc. As the house had been empty for sometime when I moved in and subsequently the heating had been off, i suspected this...

Well that is good news. I can get 12mm easily from a local DIY store, any more and I'd be off to a timber merchants, at clearly a lot of cost! Thanks Richard for your informative replies, I feel a lot more confident about pressing ahead. Cheers!

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Hello all, I am renovating a bathroom and having searched around the forum I think I have found the solution, however I wanted to double check. I am removing all the flooring back to joists, then: 25mm exterior WBP screwed every 300 mm(?) 3mm fibreboard underlay (to help reduce sound...