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You want to use proper concrete repair which you can buy from DIY shops, you buy a 5kg or so tub and mix it with water. To fix the cracks chisel out any loose material and fill it as per instructions. To paint concrete you want to prime it and use a suitable paint. Some exterior paints specify...

1. You can replace them but you need to stop them from rotting again, make sure they dont sit directly on bricks, either use joist hangers on DPC 2. WOW. This is lovely... No idea what to do with it. I think what has happened is the floor started to sag so they have propped it up with those...

Hi, The vent wants to go inside the house, in whatever room the chimney passes through (assuming it is a bedroom?) either near the floor or near the ceiling will do, it's just to prevent the air inside the chimney condensating and creating damp. Probably easier to vent nearer the floor...

Doesnt look too bad a fix, just needs a beam and then whatever leak that rotted it fixing, but is it going to be safe taking down and asbestos roof to put a new beam in?

Hi, I currently have a number of damp problems, most coming from a cold and wet cellar. The biggest problems are that the two coal chutes which ventilated it have been filled with concrete (why?) and the garden has been build up with soil, then paving, then soil and then slate chippings...