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Hi Robert, I'm afraid I've had no luck so far. I found an old sink drain pipe in the wall that I wanted to expose, and that would have turned the project into something rather complex, involving brick replacement to get rid of the groove. Now I've got a bare patch (with a pvc pipe) behind the...

Hi! I'm glad you answered, it got me looking a bit further, and I even found (again) an old blog post I first read when I bought this house http://brickcitylove.com/2012/07/17/exposing-brick/ The crumbling and the dust are there, indeed, but also the solution. PS I'm indeed writing...

A sealant might serve to keep moisture, dirt, etc rather than prevent abrasion or crumbling of the surface. It's this second purpose I'm looking for, and that has not been easy to google, I'd say. It might even be the case that leaving the brick exposed is a bad idea, because the grout cannot...

Hi! one of the walls in my kitchen must be replastered, and since there's moisture and salt damage to a substancial part, I thought about removing the entire plastering and leaving it exposed - the bricks do look alright under the plaster I had to remove already, and pipes and wires are not...

Well, a tubular latch does afford space for screws.. if I want to use the mortice to keep an entire box of them :) Using a different latch only solves the problem if the said latch is perforated and fits in the existing mortice, since this would let me use a through bolt and have the set...

Hi, thanks for the answers! Indeed, I see that my location is indicated as NL.. well, probably not by chance, but it happens that backplate sizes in the Netherlands - at least for this kind of centered latch - are similar to those in the UK. Unfortunately, the front plate, where the screws...

Hello! I guess this post could have gone to 'windows & co', but it seemed more of a carpentry question, therefore.. I've got an interior door, still in very good shape, where I need to place a new door handle. The problem is, at some point in the past the first mortice lock with 60mm...