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This is the view inside the vent now I've cleared out the fluff/rubble that was filling it. Metal beam looks damp and a little corroded. So what do I do? Call a builder?

It's foam that was used to fill the blocked off vent rather than cavity insulation as far as I can tell. I'm not sure what the lintel situation is, the vent sits above what seems like just a timber that is about 20 mm thick, so I don't know if the proper lintel is above the vent?

Doesn't seem like anybody has an easy solution for this, which trade should I be calling?

Hello all, In the last week a horizontal crack appeared above my kitchen window, moving outwards from a plastic vent cover in the middle. I removed the vent cover and found the cavity to be full of fibre wadding which was quite wet and rotten, so I pulled the immediately accessible stuff out...

Hello all, At the end of the very hot dry summer some 1-2 mm cracks appeared in the upstairs spare room at the back of my property, my guess because the wet soil dried out. From previous posts I've seen I don't think I need to worry about subsidence. The crack runs vertically along the edge...