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Ah I see, yes I've no idea about the damp course or the foundations. However, I've always assumed that we've probably got a foundation a couple of bricks deep with the bottom few courses being laid directly on clay and being three or four bricks wide (that's fairly typical for terraces build...

I'm not totally sure what or indeed where the damp course is (it's buried) but from the age of the house I'd guess it would be slate but might have degraded over the years. Good to know that removing the concrete won't cause problem, I didn't think it would but it pays to be cautious.

Hi I'm looking for a bit of advice. We live in a Victorian terrace and have a small (narrow but long) back yard which is covered by a layer of concrete (about 8 to 10cm thick). This slopes markedly towards the house and bridges any damp course by at least 20cm at the highest point (the level of...

Ah brilliant. Lots of info, thanks very much guys. I'll be sure to post some pictures when I'm done!

I'm a bit new round here but this looks like a really good forum so I'm hoping to get some advice on the following problem. At the bottom of our garden is quite a high brick wall the bottom half of which looks particularly untidy: its old, some of the mortar is lost from joints, and was...

Ah thanks. I'd never heard of a thickness planer - looks like it might well be perfect. Are they easy to use or am I likely to screw up some of the boards and/or a few of my limbs?

Hi. I live in a Victorian terrace and in the past I've sanded and varnished the pine floor. A few of the floorboards had been badly damaged by woodworm and I've finally got round to replacing them. I sourced some reclaimed floorboards of the correct age and width however it seems I was slightly...