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I'm just posting a few questions on here to see if people can help me. The house I bought is around 1850 and half of the flooring is concrete with wooden joists embedded into the concrete and the other half is a void. I've attached a few photos to help explain this. As the joists are embedded...

So after removing some more floorboards I can confirm that the joists are too far apart for a small section of the floor. The rest of the floor the joist spacing is fine but I do have some damp issues towards the front of the house. Weirdly part of the floor with the span too far apart has space...

I wasn't going to block them up, just wondering if they needed repositioning higher up.

Hello, I have issues with damp in my house. Mainly to do with the chimney in the middle of my room but I have had some damp proofing companies come out and take a look. One of them mentioned the airbricks on the external wall and recommended I have additional ones installed. They didn't say...

It's not damp at all, I have floorboards that span the entire width of the room and they feel fine but one probably has been replaced in the past as it's not full sized so there's a slight bounce to it as it seems the edges are over the joists. It's not to the point it's really bad probably due...

Hello, I have been getting work done on my living room and found out the joist span I have in the living room is too far apart in a small section of the room with concrete infilled between the joists. Weirdly the majority of the floor is fine without concrete infilled between joists but just...

Thanks for this. I actually watched that video last night so it makes a lot more sense re ratcheting and I was a bit more weary to re-point it as they mention it'll just get worse. I may look into some movement indicators though. Like I said, there's nothing at all to indicate a problem at the...

I do think it is an extension but it seems to have been there for some time. The house was converted from office into dwellings in the early 1900's or so so I think it may have been done then. The original building I think was built around 1880. I'll get a further image to show more of the wall...

Hello, I've had my house about 5 years now, I did notice these cracks but nothing showed up in the report but now I'm starting to get quite worried about them. They've not gotten worse from what I can see and I can't see any cracks internally (Although, there's a cabinet right behind the cracks...