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Hi all, I have a 200yo house and have had to strip the dining room walls back to the bare stone and finish with a waterproof render and tanking system due to higher ground level outside :( Anyway the same room had an open chimney blocked up (which probably helped to cause a lot of the...

Hi all, We are installing a new central heating system into an old houseand have a problem that cannot be avoided :( The ground floor is of concrete construction and we have to sink a few of the copper feeds for 4 radiators into the concrete :cry: I have created the relevant chases...

Hi all, Finally poured the concrete in my dining room floor today :lol: Its 100mm thick with mesh in and I have got within an approx 5mm tolerance I reckon, then given it a wood float finish :wink: How long before I can walk on it and go over it with a steel trowel to finish it off?

Have been doing a bit of a 'project' lately and would be very grateful of some advice :) I've been replacing an existing flagstone floor with a new concrete slab in a 200 year old stone house :wink: I've dug 300mm out and so far filled it back with the following: 100mm Type 1 hardcore...

Hi all, Just joined the forum and am looking forward to a bit of clarity to a few problems I currently have with a house we have just bought :roll: We knew before we bought the house that it had damp issues - it is 200years old and built on the sea front, also the dining room internal...