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Unearthed the original fire place yesterday after it was completely bricked up. Looking for advice on how to board up completely - my current thoughts were: - chimney sweep flue - bung flu with balloon/insulation (cap chimney with vent in due course) - scrub remaining soot/salts - batten the...

Hi all, I've finally taken the wall back to brick where we could see there was damp coming through. The damp was there when we bought the house and it looks like someone has previously put some 'special damp proof plaster on'... From the images, you can see it's pretty dry below the centre of...

Hi all (first post), I'm looking at insulating our ground floor bay window and have scoured pages to look for a similar arrangement to ours. The bay window has adjacent 'piers' (walls) at the end of the curve, I'm wondering whether I should/need to also strip the plaster back on these walls as...