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    under tile insulation where slate roof has no felt??

    We have a slate roof circa 1870, original slate, no felt. Our 3rd floor (attic floor) is a livable space or at least it was many years ago, when we bought house it hadn't been lived in for ten years and so far in last 7 since we bought it we only used attic floor for storage. We now want to...
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    concrete yard

    This is going to sound stupid, but here goes. :oops: Our back yard is concrete with odd drainage channels run through. We want to improve the look so want to lay slabs. We have no DPC as house was built 1870....so do we lay slabs over concrete and raise drainage cover or dig up concrete and...
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    Dry rot or Wet rot

    There seem to be a couple of similar topics in the forum but nothing that gives me a conslusive answer. We bought an 1870's house stone built and there was definately rot in the a back room that had the outside road onto the back wall and no DPC. The skirting was rotten along a back and side...
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    To Tank or not to Tank????

    We have bought a wet room type shower tray 1200x1200 its plumbed into the floorboards and two sources have told us contradictory advice re tanking before tiling. The shop we bought the tray from (Fired Earth) told us we must tank the area up the walls (plaster) and floor surround (plywood)...
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