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haha! i'm from yorkshire too. :mrgreen:

Well ok - today a couple of friends and i started the living room and after much discussion about what to do with the hideous ceiling (re-broad, or PVA and skim) we decided for the latter. Well I'd popped out to fulfil their urge for scottish eggs, and when i returned, they had put on the...

Thanks so much for your help :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: Thanks for your reassurance Shytalkz :mrgreen: I feel a bit better now - a good hunt around has shown up no cracks, so i'm more positive about this now.

and the lintel / old bit of wood, does extend the entire length of the square, and 5 inches either side - into the brickwork.

here a little closeup of the handywork... you can see the beam of wood across the top, and the hollow bit next to the door. There is another hollow area on the other side of the door.

haha! Shytalkz, however much of a joke this house is - luckily there are no "corner doors" (discovered yet anyway, it wouldn't surprise me!). You are right the photos are spliced together - it's just the colour difference. :lol: The "original door" area on the picture is where the...

here you go! :o

hi again shytalkz! The reason i am worried; i am pretty sure it's a supporting wall... and also sure that the previous owner was a total nutter. (Put it this way - he knocked out the bottom of a chimney and left the top in on the next floor.) So i am worried that his idea to move the...

It seems my catalogue of disasters is growing daily... Today i begin stripping the living room wallpaper to discover that the original doorway to hall has been filled in and replaced by a square opening about 1.8m to the left. The replacement "square," was next subject to a door being...

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Once again, thanks for all the comprehensive advice! It has given me confidence, and i'm really please to now have this background knowledge, and will be putting it to use. As you might have guessed by now, the house i live in is a real nightmare and it is a real learning curve as well on...

Hello, thanks for the replies again. :) I am really not sure what soil type it is, the house is near the coast so would assume it is likely to be a sandy soil? But once you get down about 40cm it is very sticky and i would say it's clay... Yes, it is a cavity wall, i shall have to...

Sure shytalkz, here you go! closeup of path (start) Closeup of where it comes out above the door it continues further... to the window! :o The doors and windows were put in last year - and he told me the door was "a lot of trouble to get in" do...

yes jbonding i thought that too - DPC companies just wanting to sell a product not really caring about the cause, and i've read the horror stories about the guarantees basically being worthless. hello again Softus, :) The crack is at the right hand side of the front wall, damp...

reet i'm off to the kilt shop.

feck.

guy #1 The entire ground floor needs stripping back to brick 1.5m and then injecting with a new chemical course, then replaster over the top guy#2 The damp is small isolated patches - you need to get it back to brick in just these areas and then just inject these areas guy #3 Take it...

The title says it all really. My neighbour kindly pointed out today a massive crack starting below the door, coming out the top pf the door, continuing up past the top window going slightly angled. (The bottom of the house you can see it following the bricks but the top of the house is...

gentlemen gentlemen... handbags down!!!!!!!!! :shock: No need to get your heckles up - it might help you to know that EVERY SINGLE person i have spoken to has given me a totally different remedy, and this includes : 4 different men out to give tests and quotes Each different person...