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I have been digging a trench to alleviate a rising damp problem. While excavating I have found a old unused soil pipe running through the brick footing. There is no lintel and one side of the bricks are slumping down. The idea I had was dig out the area a bit more without affecting...

I am after some advice, our Victorian house extension suffers from damp, there is no sign of an original DPC, it is not a suspended floor - just a concrete floor and brick foundations/footings We had a damp survey done on the house and it revealed that the concrete slab level at the back of...

So I have been ripping down a lath and plaster ceiling that was in bad condition. One particular area was a bulge which I honestly thought was a brick that had pushed the plaster down. After stripping the ceiling its obvious what was causing the bulge, a first floor concrete hearth that looks...

I have been redecorating a room and got to a room thermostat. Its been mounted on the wall in a real botch job. There is no backing plate, the earth is not connected to anything, the black wire plastic sheath has split and the wire is showing, the thermostat its self was not level with the...

Ok, have got a coolant leak on my ford fiesta finess V reg I have looked over the whole engine and the leak is not coming from the heater core/matrix and not from the radiator I have also checked all the coolant tubes no cracks and there in good condition. The leak is coming from the left...