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We’ve had the plaster taken off our old bricked up fireplace. How realistic would it be to tidy this up to make into a small feature brick wall? What would need to be done to make this look good?!

Hi all We are having the bathroom done and the floor has already been stained pine boards. The house is a cottage and we’d like to sand the boards down and paint them chalky white. Is there anything else we need to do to the boards apart from the sanding and painting given then are in a...

I have bought (1 year ago) an old house in NW England - it’s 300 years old and sandstone. It’s been empty for a year but in the past 6 months has developed damp in two main locations: 1. The internal walls the back onto one of the blocked up chimneys are damp in all three floors (ground first...

Some help needed please! I have recently bought a 300 year old house in the UK that has a basement with a sump pump in and is obviously natural quite damp. Above the basement there are floorboards with no damp proofing. I’ve just pulled up carpet in lunge and revealed the floorboards. Would we...