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Hello This won't be a DIY project we'll undertake ourselves, more for general advice. We have had an offer accepted on a 3 bed mid-terraced house about 100 years old. As is typical, the house is suspended on wooden joists close to ground level. It is L shaped with a ground floor bathroom...

He was convinced it was a gas pipe and that we'd need a gas engineer to sort it out; not something we had time to do.

He offered us two options, the cheaper of which was bonding; the more expensive option, which we went for, was sand and cement mixed with a waterproof silicone resin (if I recall correctly). As far as we can tell the outside damp problem is cured, but now I don't know. The original plaster was...

Hello all, I really need some advice. We've recently had our bedroom wall replastered after it was ruined by damp coming in from the roof. We had the guttering redone and, after waiting to make sure the plaster didn't get any worse, we had someone come in to strip it back and re-render and...