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In my sisters house, we simply hacked the old lime plaster off up to a meter, with it's GLOSS paint coat :shock: and replaced with new lime plaster and breathable paint. Victorian terrace, solid masonry walls, lime plaster. No reoccurance of damp thus far. The 3-1 is a cement render...

Boggo tiles on a moving roof :D Have you thought about maybe dropping the floor instead? Could double as a paddling pool when it rains :shock:

Surely building without a PWA is reason for some enforcement action. At the end of the day, is the wall that much of a bother? I'd just get a few quid off the developer and put up with it, unless it's blocking out light etc. Don't need to worry about alienating the neighbours as it's a...

Does the roof have to be insulating or just weatherproof? For me, the obvious solution seems to be a retracting canvas/membrane roof. Also please do this project, it's like something out of thunderbirds :lol:

Media blasting with something like baking soda? Probably half way between power-washing and sandblasting, which will take back the surface (being as hard as the sandstone...)

Who had what contract with who? There's a limit to what BC can inspect; sounds like the builder's stitched you up...

Could pressure wash, soda-blast, bead blast, or use a brick-cleaner dependent on the type of stone. Soda and bead blasting are kinder to the stone, and will only remove the crud. You need to watch out for the mortar of course, but if you're planning on repointing, it's more of a case of don't...

What an improvement, nice choice of kit. You hardly need tiles with an upstand like that, and the cooker in the middle of the room.

Well I'm not going to argue with that! :oops: Sorry all if I posted anything misleading; any questions were to get more detail about the OPs situation, the OP did not provide enough information to give a reasonable answer in the first instance. You obviously know what you're talking...

It can, but the flange is 254, so 154 will be in thin air. I was just wondering why the OP chose to use the UC in place of a UB out of curiosity.

Ah, I thought I made it clear (in each post), "in the direction of the span", but possibly this was missleading/useless information. Perhaps the OP had been told that there was a minimum bearing, this is why I mentioned it... I was trying to illustrate the point that there is no minimum...

Government planning portal, OK it's a sh1t source, but I can't find what I was looking for; Beam(s) Structural Support The beam should be designed to cater for the loads that the wall was originally taking. This beam then needs to be supported on two other supports (typically walls)...

The bearing I think is the corusinconstruction website. Cba to find a link.

There's also the compressive strength of the blockwork under the pad... I'll be quiet. But the question still remains, why are you using a 254mm UC? Is it to give a bearing to the joists? What's overhead? Wouldn't you be better off using a WF Beam, and saving a bit of weight...

I think this only applies if you live in a square windmill. :shock:

No, it can width-wise, my point related to the bearing "length" of bearing I guess (in the direction of span, not in the width of the beam, as there is no hard and fast rule for the width; though if it was less than the flange of the beam I'd be worried...). OP: How can a 254 UC bear on a...

Sounds like exactly the same thing? The "under pressure" method will better saturate the bricks I would have thought. There's a kit available from HSS if you want to have a stab at it yourself. I'm sure there's a video of someone on youtube spraying liquid dpc all over themselves...

Needs at least 150mm in the (direction of the span) bearing onto masonry, and it should be a dense pad. But width wise it's less important, what size is the flange on the beam (guess its a 356 or 40something? depth) Is the beam restrained perpendicular to the span by joists ? Ultimately the...

Someone's going to slap me for this; but if you're doing the plastering yourself, how is anyone going to know what percentage has been replaced unless you tell them?