moisture

Hello all! First time poster: I have a semi-detached house in a high water table area and I noticed that under the suspended wooden ground floor there was some standing water. I carried out some investigation and it appears that more water flows into the crawl space (approx 4ft high) in when...

Hi All, Enthusiastic amateur here - I've fitted a couple of bathrooms, a kitchen, false walls etc, but I'm no expert. I have a desk job, so I enjoy doing something practical in my spare time. Not sure if you can help with a question about moisture, but thought I'd ask... I'm planning on...

Hello all, In the last week a horizontal crack appeared above my kitchen window, moving outwards from a plastic vent cover in the middle. I removed the vent cover and found the cavity to be full of fibre wadding which was quite wet and rotten, so I pulled the immediately accessible stuff out...

Hi all, We are having our bathroom re-done and are on a budget and time constraint due to baby bump growing fast! My husband took off all the bathroom tiles (floor to ceiling) yesterday and the walls are uneven and going to be difficult, time-consuming and costly to plaster. My builder has...

Hi. I bought my Victorian end-of-terrace house 2 years ago and am still trying to solve a problem with dampness in the subfloor void. As you'd expect, this has caused a lot of damage to the timbers, mainly wet rot and wood beetle damage. Photos are here...

I want to convert an attached garage into a utility room, having done quite abit of research on the forum and else where online. I wanted a few peoples opinions/thoughts on it if possible. Being a new build I can only presume that it will have been built with cavity trays in place, so am I...

I have an old chimney stack up from the kitchen and through to the bathroom. The kitchen stack part has already been removed (before we moved in), the bathroom stack is still there, not ventilated and was - i think - responsible for a big damp patch coming out on the adjoining bedroom wall. I...

Hi all, welcome to my post. The front room of our house has had damp issues since we bought it in early 2012. We then had an large extension later that year, although the front room with damp problems was not touched back then due to finances at the time. Our place was originally a cow shed...

Hi, I'm planning on replacing my kitchen counters with a solid walnut (stave) worktop and a new sink. I like the look of flush fitting sinks and my worktop supplier has said they can do CNC cutting for this kind of fitting but I'm worried that this type of fitting might not be suitable for...