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Hang in there mate. All of my diy knowledge came from moving into a house where an old dear had lived for about 60 odd years and the only improvements were from her son covering problems up. whole place was re-wired, rising damp was sorted, lead water pipes removed, no heating etc. That was all...

As skhudy says, I'd check for service pipes or something. We had a similar problem in our uncle's kitchen. It turned out that the dishwasher had sprung a leak behind the skirting and had been dripping away for months. It looked exactly the same as this, but because it was about 4 cabinets away...

Thanks mate. Think after extensive reading I'm going to go with dot and dab insulated gyproc board. seems to tick all the boxes without losing too much wall space.

hi, thanks for the reply. The exterior was rendered about 4 years ago. The window is a 70's double glazing affair with a huge gap around the sides and a stone cill. I'll need to support the window board with something underneath eventually but not too focused on that yet. the brickwork isn't...

Hi all. I'm looking for advice on what to do with our bathroom walls now that we've done the easy part of smashing all the 'lovely' avocado coloured tiles off them. It's an old Victorian terraced house and we're doing two walls (the other two are wetwalled), one of which is an external wall...