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Ok great thanks both - will get the professionals in.

Afternoon, Can anyone ID these 2 pipes please. Not in use - gas or water? I want to get rid of them, without flooding or blowing up the house. Thanks in advance!

Thanks - didn't know that, bought the tiles now and it's not a rectangular space, but definitely would consider another time.

Morning, I'm building a hearth for a log burner. Plan is to use bricks to build it up from the concrete subfloor. I need to level before tiling. Can I shutter it and pour a thin (say 5mm) layer of self levelling screed to give me a flat surface to tile from? My concern is heating might cause...

Kitchen isn't really damp - just one corner. Near an overflowing drain that was soaking the outside wall. Now unblocked as of today. Damp is mostly in living room in older part of house. Pretty certain no DPC in the older part of the house. DPC present in the dry new part. Will get pics. Where...

Kitchen isn't really damp - just one corner. Near an overflowing drain that was soaking the outside wall. Now unblocked as of today. Damp is mostly in living room in older part of house. Pretty certain no DPC in the older part of the house. DPC present in the dry new part. Will get pics. Where...

yes, parquet on solid concrete. Bitumen bonded, now loose as the bitumen has degraded. Going - some rot and woodworm in the edges. Most of it seems OK, will store it for now and decide.

Sorry I confused water meter with damp meter. Yes there is a water meter - I misunderstood. So check if the water meter is moving even with all the water off right? Stopcock is inside. Will see what the water meter is doing and get back to you. Will read tonight and again tomorrow pm and see...

I've ordered a resistance based one yes - I really hope it's not that since that's my budget gone on digging up concrete. The damp is quite widespread, not localised in one place. Neighbours house is a mirror image, turns out they have damp in exactly the equivalent walls, to the same extent...

Fair points. I didn't know the photos can be in the post. I just wanted to say what I was going to do so as not to waste people's time with answers like 'have you checked the gutters' I don't know what needs to be done - I think I did suggest I may be talking *******s :) 1 chimney breast, there...

Pics are in this album, thanks in advance! https://www.diynot.com/diy/media/albums/a-damp-house.26913/