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Any ideas what this might be, before I hack at it? A thin skim of plaster fell off as I was taking off the wallpaper. It's iron or steel, about an inch wide with a bevelled edge, and runs from the ceiling as far as the round magnet I've left stuck to it in the photo. I've run the magnet over the...

Hi guys, I have a sub-5mm vertical crack on an inside wall, resulting from a botched window installation. It runs from the window opening to just shy of the floor. There is a crack in the outer leaf also, which I am getting stitched (in a different part of the wall but also window-related)...

Hi all. In looking at repairing cracks in our walls, a local company offered a free brick tie check, so I said yes. They attempted to inspect two ties on different walls but could only get a view on one due to cavity wall insulation. The one they borescoped is below; https://imgur.com/a/D1voWqU...

Hi all, hope you can help. We have a 1950s semi with three cracks in the walls; one under the front room window, and two in the end wall; 1) A long vertical crack in the end wall, above and below the upstairs window, mostly following the mortar but has cracked through two bricks - pics...

Hi guys, I have a weird noise issue in our new house (to us that is, it was built in the 1950s, central heating added early 80s I think?). It has a combi boiler downstairs (Semia Condens). If I run the hot water OR the heating for any length of time, what appears to be the pipes in the bedroom...