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nice one redherring thanks for the information, most of the bricks are sandstone and theres a mix of all sorts of mortor on the wall. i've heard that a cement based mortor retains water?

just wondered if you knew what the best mix for external mortor was as there are quite a few gaps in the external wall between the bricks. thanks

disregard the last message as i think you have already answered it. As for the joists. I'm no expert but i'm sure they should be attached somhow to the wall, at the moment they are just resting on the dpc level, they are not touching the external wall and seem to be held in place by the...

Thanks for the advise, i guess i will lower the external ground level and replaster the internal wall and see if that helps. I just wondered about 2 more things concerning the internal wall. a) Do you know what would be the best mix of plaster to go on the internal wall? b) Is there...

Sorry to take so long at getting back to you but have been pretty busy, i hope this information usefull. The wall measures just over 40cm in depth, it looks as though its a cavity wall but i'm not 100 percent certain. The level of the external floor is about the same as the level of the...

Hi, i'm just after a bit of advise about my external wall which does not have any dpc. My house is an end of terrace built in the early 1900ish, the builders ran out of money when building the terrace leaving the external wall with no dpc as there was supposed to be another house built...

picture is on its side the left is the ground

one of the joists resting on the dpc, the ground is on the far left as the picture is on its side

the picture is on its side the left hand side is the bottom, you can see a damp proof layer that goes under the joists only

This shows the external wall and under the internal wall

I am replacing my old external water mains pipe with 25mm mdpe and was just after a bit of advice on fitting a new stop tap. I have 15mm speedfit pipe (white) internally and wondered what stop tap you recommend to fit between the two. I guess i will need to put inserts into both pipes that are...

Thanks for the quick reply...I was thinking about putting in a new close coupled wc and dont mind building a support at the back... I was wondering if you know how deep the pan connector might go ( just so i know roughly how much concrete i need to chip away. If i do break the existing...

Just wondered if anyone can give me some advise on replacing my old wc, it has a waste pipe going into solid ground. The existing pipe is quite old and i want to replace as much of that as possible with new pipe. 1. Is it worth knocking out some of the cement and cutting the pipe below the...