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It was the short span that was worrying me as well to be honest. If the room was 5 metres wide, I could understand a bit of drooping but no on a couple of metres. Plan now is, as you say, pull the boards up and have a look. I doubt there's any real rot down there but I'd rather be certain...

Hi, No other mods have been made to the house, it's as it was when we moved in. The funny thing is that nothing feels untoward, the chipboard is solid, doesn't move and there's smell of damp. The only thing that seems wrong is that the middle of the floor is 6mm down while the room is only...

Hi All, I live in a 19 year hold house, soft block walls, chipboard floors upstairs etc., and a while back we had a leak from the cold water supply pipe to the bath in which the water made its way though to the ceiling in the kitchen below. We punched holes through the kitchen ceiling and...

Decided to carry on with the pick and found that they are indeed slabs but they've been laid onto a poured slab concrete block that looks like it's stopping the sloping driveway from inviting itself into the garden. Lifted the slabs and it looks like the patio will stop short and there'll be...

Must admit, I hadn't thought of that. The site was a school before the houses were built and brickworks before that. The part we're on was out of bounds during the school years and seems to have been backfill from the brickworks. What I may do, is get some steel bars and hammer them at an...

Sketch of the house available here: http://i.cubeupload.com/St8vf6.png The only thing I can see of any note about the positioning of the poured slabs is that they're at the bottom of a slope. Aside from that there doesn't seem to be anything special. They also appear to have sunk at the...

Hi all, I'm in the process of laying a patio and have been lifting the existing slabs which are 900x600x50mm council grey and are laid along the back wall of the house. To the right of house is a gate, and as you get near to the gate, the council slabs change into 600x600. I was trying to...