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Some time ago I posted information about my experience of finding occasional Tarmac Floors in residential houses. The usual ignorant posters leapt about in near psychotic excitement that such a claim could be made. Mouths frothing, they piled in to deny that Tarmac could ever have been used...

oursurveysaid, NH lime is the right stuff. Best practice and traditionally, the joist tails were seated on the DPC and the air bricks were set in the bay between the joist tails. The DPC was (& still is) supposed to be 150mm above ground level. If your air bricks are simply venting the front...

there's been confusion all week about what to do ref the corona virus and the Building Trades. the Govt's giving out different stories, workers and small firms are also confused. Workers doing service work are now advised (is it an advice?) not to enter peoples homes. But service workers are...

no matter what kind of roof damage or leaking roof the recent storm may have caused to your roof - do not go on the roof or even raise a ladder until the wind has completely abated. stay off any kind of pitched roof if its still raining or the roof surface is wet. remember that all ladders and...

I've just read up, and looked at quite a few photo's of the collapsed portion of Chester's Roman wall. The collapse took place just a short distance from a similar collapse of another bit of wall, perhaps due to a similar cause, 12 yrs ago. There was also a more recent case of wall steps pulling...

we stopped today - no work for the next two weeks. apart from service work, is this Christmas break still being used across your end of the building trade and construction? thing is, nowadays lots of the suppliers now remain open over the period. but i dont see the value in attempting to do...

Rising Damp is Capillary Action by another name. Penetrating Damp is often Capillary Action by another name. Moisture is absorbed by Capillary Action into sponges, and paper towels, and bricks and mortar. Where it affects masonry we usually call it Rising Damp. To deny Rising Damp is to deny...

power tools esp. bench and stand alone woodworking machines can be deadly for accidents to hands and face. this forum DIYNOT.COM has pointed out the dangers of untrained gas fitting with its locked gas forum. perhaps this tools forum should have an open, preface thread to advise on tool safety...

Ronaldo for ever. Hes now up ther with Pele and Maradona. hope Messi does even better but a hatrick agaiinst spain is goin to be hard to beat.