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Please be as pedantic as you like - it is very considerate of you to help me in this manner KenGMac. There were, presumably, two fire places - one upstairs, one downstairs, which have long been covered over. So what we are saying is that, possibly, the flue for the upstairs fire place (and the...

Thank you once more KenGMac. We paid for the air brick to be installed last year and as far as I can tell it is double bricked (with air bricks). I have also attached a photo of the chimney cowl. As far as I can see, we should have circulation at the top and the bottom? Does it need an air...

Thank you very much for your reply KenGMac. I have attached a further photo taken from the outside. As you can see, the only air brick is actually where the fireplace downstairs used to be. There is no corresponding air-brick upstairs. Is this our problem? I did try the tissue test and no...

Please find attached a photo of my daughter's bedroom. This is an outside wall with a disused chimney on the other side. The wall had shown signs of damp for some time. A few months ago we had the wall re-skimmed and then painted it. The damp issue re-appeared though and we asked a roofer to...

We purchased our 1959-built-house two years ago and just starting to think about ways in which to update the staircase. Would any users have any advice on establishing whether there are likely to be spindles boxed in behind this woodwork (based on houses of the same period)? I have tapped the...

I had the same problem this morning. A pool of water had formed below the boiler leading me to the problem. So the government insisted on using outside condensate pipes to only find that they freeze in extreme temperatures, right? :shock: I must be one of thousands with this problem. Anyway...

My bathroom tiles are starting to bulge in one place. It seems to be in one place only. You can see it the whole way down from the ceiling, almost like a line where the tiles on either side of the grout are being forced outwards by something behind. The tiles do not feel loose when you touch...