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Refurbishing our 1960s house. Window fitters have fitted replacement UPVC windows, viewed below from the inside. Plastering to come. Two of the windows fitted 1st floor front and rear elevation had nothing above to mechanically fit to (just soffit space). You can see some old blocks of wood...

Hi all Have knocked the plasterboard off above the top floor window recess with the aim of filling with insulation, probably rockwool type. These timbers I believe previously joined the old wooden window frames to the inner long timber you can see here. I expect the previous window fitters...

Hi all Renovating house to live in. In the garden there is an area which when there has been any rain whatsoever, does not dry out. It has been sludgy during the late winter and spring, particularly with the rain, and walking on it meant sinking into the mud about 8 inches or more. It was...

Hi all. We removed a conservatory and it's concrete slab base from this spot around Christmas time. No sign of damp bricks on the outbuilding at the time. About 6 weeks ago a water company engineer who was examining the sewer which is outside the back door, off to the right of this photo...

We are shortly due to have old windows replaced with UPVC. The plaster above the window recess (rear first floor bedroom) looked loose so I decided to tap a bit out to check all looked ok behind it. I am a beginner DIYer (first home project) and found what looks like one length of timber above...

Hi all. The cavity, where old window is fitted to outside skin, where the plaster is knocked back, is quite wide. Big gap where insulation is missing but there is insulation further back. I suspect the brickwork is too uneven to fit cavity closers even if I try to knock bits off and repair the...

Hi all. We are currently refurbishing 1960s house to eventually live in. After stripping wallpaper from inside walls of this window structure, we noticed the plaster which covered the cavity, at the very bottom on the left and right (circled in red) was damp and black with moisture. We've...

We have removed a concrete base where an old conservatory used to stand (as in another thread) and have found this square of concrete with a gap in the centre. What is it likely to be? Could it be an old drain that we need to leave alone? Or is it something we can break up? We did intend to...

Just took the house on recently and the outhouse needs some new guttering on the rear where its roof slopes to. The old guttering which was falling apart had a downpipe leading into a plastic garden water butt on top of this hole, the butt was full. We have removed that and underneath is this...

As mentioned within a thread on another subject, we have removed an old conservatory which was around 30 years old. We are now left with the concrete base and at present it is holding water when it raina which does pool up to the rear wall of the house. The base seems to be slightly lower on the...

Refurbishing our 1960s semi. There were 5 small windows situated on the gable wall approx only 500mm wide which presumably used to have timber frames and since having uPVC frames were identified on survey as potentially requiring adequate lintels above. Our builder has fitted an L shaped...

Hi all. We are doing up our first home which was built in the 1960s. After removing the gyproc coving from the living room ceiling I have found a few holes in the plaster where there seems to be some sort of brown fibrous material behind, which looks to be part of or weaved within the plaster...

Hi all. Brand new poster here. We are doing up our first home and removed an old conservatory a few weeks ago which spanned most of the width of the rear of the house. The house was built in the early 60s. You will see there is what looks like either a pre-stressed or reinforced concrete...