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I'm about to paint an external solid wall with Sandtex stabilising solution and paint. There's an area at the base of the wall below the dpc where there is a layer of salt like crystals (salt?). The question is how do treat this area? Stabilising solution or something else? I've taken a...

Thank you for all your replies. Sounds like my concerns are unfounded. Would the moist air be causing the mortar lines under the eaves to darken compared to rest of the house?

My daughters house has the boiler exhaust coming out from the side of her house under the boxed eaves. Also it looks like the previous owners have had a sheet of material positioned above the exhaust to act as a sort of baffle. I'm thinking that needs to be replaced with an extension pipe that...

I've read several posts about this topic which have been helpful. I have a 1912 house with a suspended timber floor which gets so cold you feel the draught from it even though its carpetted. From the posts I've read so far, I'm thinking of using Celotex 100mm cavity insulation as a relatively...

Sounds like you might be right Sam. I'll play the long game for now. Wait until the whole lot has trickled out before taking the plug out as you suggest. Thank you Sam.

I've been at this for a couple of hours... The water is trickling out at a very slow rate from the system. The upstairs rads are all open the downstairs ones are still full of water so I can't open them. Boiler is switched off. Vents all open upstairs. Any ideas please, short of sucking the...

I've got a couple of dozen plain tiles to swap out this weekend. All of them apart from these two should be quite straightforward. Does anyone have any advice on how I can replace these without being able to nudge the ridge tiles up because they're well bedded down ...

Thank you for all your posts which I'm only just catching up on. So, towel rail went in fine and looks great. I'm pleased to have been able to do this myself and save £84. As for the X300, that got replaced with X400 on your advice thanks :) I also decided to take up the boiler service...

Thanks Ian Who's Tony ? The recommendation for X300 came from the heating engineer who serviced our boiler this week. He also recommended fitting a magnaclean which I might do later.

I'm changing out a towel rail tomorrow and plan to use X300 to clean out the central heating system. Does anyone have any advice on when to do it and how please ? Thanks tDub

Get to know your enemy.... I read up on mould to find out what it likes. We've deployed several strategies in our home such as ventilation, bigger gaps behind cupboards and so on. For the shower, we have one of these squeegees to remove all the surface water from the shower wall into the...

Thank you guys for this excellent information which will get me going. I'm pleased to know that I can have the configuration I want after all. Just one more small question, but I guess the kitchen company will be able to work this out. How do I calculate the btu rating required for the room...

We're in the process of having a new kitchen fitted where we want under cupboard heating to be provided. We want grilles that are connected to the central heating. Behind these or integral with them are fans which blow the warm air into the kitchen space from under the cupboard units. We want...

Thanks for the responses.. Yeah, guess I am just trying for a short cut to avoid the grubbing out and so on. The coal bunker is completely sheltered within a covered canopy so the floor is bone dry. Which is why I thought I might get away with just putting a self levelling compound on it...

The coal bunker which is set into the side of the house has a brick floor, laid straight onto the ground. Its been down for probably 98 years, but it has become uneven over the years. What I would like to do is to pour a self levelling screed or concrete over the whole area of approx 2.5 sq...

This is a chimney that I've been asked to look at for a relative of mine. The joints look quite open and in need of repointing, but I'm also wondering if it would be better for the chimney to be taken down brick by brick and rebuilt again. When you look at the top area, it looks as if it is...