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A bit of background: The house is ~1860 and has no practical DPC to speak of (engineering bricks and slate at the base of the foundations). After digging out parts of the bay window for expanding the airbricks (they were badly installed - above floor level, behind the skirting boards - when the...

I'm replacing the suspended floor throughout the downstairs of my early-/mid-Victorian terrace (extensive rot and beetle activity), and the joists are a teeny-tiny 3.5" x 2.5". They're at ~40cm centres and the longest unsupported span between sleeper walls is ~130cm. I can't lower the sleeper...

I've recently bought a narrow c.1860 mid-terrace that has significant issues with wet and dry rot to the ground floor, as well as woodworm (all hidden under laminate, with no obvious smells or 'bouncy' floors despite large holes in the floorboards below). The amount of rotten broken wood scraps...