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Hi there, we just moved into a 1950s semi-detached and we have blown plaster at the top of the office wall where it meets the ceiling. This is a shared internal brick wall with our neighbours and our bathroom is above it. We'd like to use lining paper for the room as we don't have the money to...

Hi all, we have just noticed a small spot of damp at the base of a ground floor plasterboard wall. The wall is in an extension which is only 6-7 years old. The wall is a boxed in stud wall against a brick external wall which has a DPC fitted. We've never noticed the damp before, including during...

We have a 1950s brick house rendered on the outside and were getting damp in the plaster around a window reveal. I have cut the plaster back, foamed around the window (there was no foam previously) and resealed with silicone externally. I believe the issue is that the window is mounted ~5cm...

We were recently stripping wallpaper in our house (built in the 1950s) and uncovered a long strip of damp plaster along the insides of the window frame which crumbled away as soon as we took the paper off. The house is brick with a cavity wall, but the windows appear to be mounted on single...