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    'pon my soul, you're in the wrong hole.....cavity insulation)

    Hi. Advice appreciated please. I am chopping out blown bricks and rebuilding the outside face of our house step wall. I find loads of cavity insulation in the wrong hole ...so between the basement garage wall and the wall/sunken pit holding up the steps to the house (the blocks on the right of...
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    Sorting out my big damp pit

    I have a 2.5m x 1.5m concrete block pit that our entrance steps go round. It is filled with greensand and stones (ballast really), the 1980s membrane to the walls has failed and the moisture seeps into our integral garage and soaks through into blocks/bricks and has blown the render a few...
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    Foundations - is my house built on a pad, gurt deep foundations, or am I in deep do-do?

    Hello. We have a split level house half of which is built over a double garage. For the right hand bit of the house we have 90 degree concrete/stone steps up to the front door which go round a 2.5m deep pit of soil and rubble with no DPC to any wall. This is causing damp to our garage and all...
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    rotten garden wall rebuild and 11kV power cable

    Hello. First post from me as I really need some wise words please. We had a bloke come and replace our knackered brick garden walls with some 'treated' sleepers some years back which looked lovely. Needless to say they all rotted out within a few years and I want to do something myself or get...
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