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Thank you Mr Chibs!

Thank you for all the advice! DPC is 4 bricks above our path. Hopefully the weather will start to be more reliable in the next few weeks and we can make a start. Happy to take the time to do the job right. We have a fairly small bungalow and only doing round the front of the house so don’t...

We’re having our bungalow cladded with Cedral cladding. The cladding can’t go below the DPC and for aesthetic reasons we’d like to paint DPC white - the reddish brick against light grey cladding doesn’t look right to us. Before shelling out for the painting to be done professionally, I’d like...

We’re having our bungalow cladded with Cedral cladding. The cladding can’t go below the DPC and for aesthetic reasons we’d like to paint DPC white - the reddish brick against light grey cladding doesn’t look right to us. Before shelling out for the painting to be done professionally, I’d like...

Thank you all very much for all your help, you’ve been most reassuring. We’ll be as accommodating as we can to the neighbours, we want to get along and be neighbourly, but ultimately we don’t want to take for responsibility for something that isn’t ours to take. Off to pour a large glass of...

Argh just had another conversation with neighbour and I’m even more stressed. We’ve cleared out the hardcore and found concrete under where it was which the neighbour is saying is causing the damp in the corner of his garage. The damp seems to be rising up through his floor and damp is...

Thank you, I feel that way too and we’re keen to keep neighbourly and will help where we can. The builder didn’t do any favours to either of us really as I’m sure our neighbours were awake last night thinking about it like I was!

I think that’s what’s thrown us a bit, they have no solution to the work as yet, it just seems like they’re saying the reason for the damp is our path and the hardcore that fills the gap. Based off of one builder having a look. I’m quite sure the neighbours don’t want to replace the wall, they...

Thank you Woody...! They’re very nice new neighbours and we’ll do what we can to help them, but when they mentioned party wall agreement I couldn’t think why that would be needed! Cheers for replying

Hi there Our new neighbours have popped round to discuss a damp issue in their garage. A builder has advised them a party wall agreement might be needed as he thinks the damp has been caused by lack of drainage from our path. The part of the garage that has the damp is in the extended part...

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Hi there, I need some help and opinions! We’ve recently moved into our 1950’s bungalow which we’re hoping to convert and add bedrooms/bathroom in the loft space. Before we undertake something bigger like that, we need to replace the existing windows. We noticed some cracking in the wall by...