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Hello all, Mrs Smithy has just reported that her beloved C2 (6 years old I think) is refusing to lock because it thinks the passenger door is open. It obviously isn't. I'm presuming this is a sensor problem of some kind, does anyone know how one goes about fixing this? The car's not with...

Just thought I'd bring things up to date. To find the leak, the plumber had to dig up the floor: With the water back on, a steady trickle of water was seen following the path of the pipe that was feeding the kitchen sink. Although we didn't actually dig along to find the actual...

I'll try to make this as brief as I can, it may be of interest to some. I've added a few pix as they speak loader than words of course. March/April we noticed damp on internal wall: There was also evidence of water running on external render, low down under the DPC. This picture...

If only I was... What's the point of having building regs and council docs supporting them if there's no come back? I would have thought that omitting a whole dpc was slightly more serious than just demonstrating poor quality of workmanship. Anyway, the reason I thought to post my question...

Here are a couple of pix John, the render has a line cut into it around the whole extension. I'd always presumed this was where the dpc was, but after both a surveyor and builder have seen it, they are of the opinion that this line is just an afterthought. I'm getting a chap to come round in a...

In short, bought a property in 2003. Consisted of a 1925 house with extension built in 1995. Recently we've been suffering signs of damp on internal and external walls in the extension. It looks like there is no damp proof course in the extension and we do have the documentation from the...