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Thanks Regsmyth. Very helpful. The roof is fine. The worst affected wall, where most, perhaps all, the water is entering is mine, accessible from the outside and is 10" thick. A bit of digging along the wall, then pointing/re-rendering looks like the way to go - I can't see myself chopping...

I have an outside loo, probably the same age as the 200-year-old core of the house - brick built and concrete floored. On two sides the ground outside the walls is higher than the loo floor. The brick on the inside of those walls is degraded and porous and when it rains the water leaches...

Thanks, all. Very helpful.

Job: sanding down 2 dining tables. One is two and a half feet square, the other 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 feet. I need to sand the tops and eight (3-inch) legs. I have an old cheap orbital sander but wonder if it's worth buying a belt sander. It would initially be a one-job tool (though I'd still...

It's a long time ago now, but if you read this, thanks again everyone. Breezer, Last time I visited my son I did look at the flood defences on the houses in Chiswick (ahem, while the rest of the family were in church) and found it instructive. They all looked sort of home-made (the...

Thank you JohnD There is a 4 metre ACO in the middle of the drive, with a drain running into a 2 metre soakaway. It has, I think filled up with mud, muck and rubbish. I have tried rodding it, but the rods hit a barrier. I suspect the pipe turns through a severe angle on its way to the...

Thanks big-all. Concrete, fortunately, and all floors tiled, apart from the one carpeted room - needless-to-say the one with the heavy furniture: desks, filing cabinets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, computer. FrankW

Breezer Thanks for that. My son lives in Chiswick and has just told me about the floogates there, as I was weeping down the phone about my latest carpet soaking. I thought that they would all be expensive and shop-bought, it being leafy Chiswick, but it sounds from what you say that there is...

My front doorstep is flush with the drive and with the internal floor, and very heavy rain leads to flooding. I want to fit a removable flood-resistant board, not more than 15cm high. Floodgates UK sell a gate that would do, but it's £300+ and much higher than I need. Also, the Floodgates...

During the past 2 years I have built a patio and installed a pond. I need the following wiring up: 2 sets of patio lights; low-voltage in-pond lights; a fountain; a pond filter (external) and filter-pump (in-pond). 12 qualified electricians considered the job. Two declined; 5 said they'd...