Hi corneallatheart, if you manage to seal the surfaces, when it comes to skimming time you could apply a plaster bonding paint - these have grit in them to aid adhesion.
Regards S
Hi KJo53, you could buy a shortened casement and a fanlight casement, ******* a transom bar and hinge the fanlight using hinges on either side. This would be expensive and may approach the cost of a new window.. Presumably your widow catches have a night vent position and this is not enough. You cou...
Hi Papa. You can and should seal the ends of the pink areas under the dormer walls. This will effectively create sealed and hence insulated chambers. Damp in the vapour phase from below will pass through the chamber. You will need to insulate the purple areas between the floor joists, either with fi...
Hi caraid69, It looks like you have a sheet DPM under the floor slab and painted DPM up the walls. I would still recommend you fix battens to the wall to pin the floor DPM in place and accept both will be minimally pierced. Under the current weather conditions the floor slab will take months to dry,...
Hi np808, It looks like you have solid walls so damp is bound to be higher at low levels. If you can, slide sections of DPC down between the joists and the walls, fold and pin the DPC on top of the joists.its not clear whether you have any air bricks in place but it’s worth adding a few just the kee...
Hi np808, I don’t think you need to do any remedial works (fitting DPC) to the timbers on top of the wall, damp is unlikely to be a problem this high up and it looks like treated timber has been used. Possibly something you should address is where the floor joists are against the outside walls - the...
Hi pesky_wabbit
It’s very unlikely that you will find a direct replacement.
Your vent looks like a passive one (no electric) so you could stick something like the ‘extra aqua roof vent’ on the outside and stick a circular hit and miss vent grille on the inside.
Regards S
Hi corum_uk The damp around the back door will be due to bridging between the inner and outer walls. The problem may be due to the new back door, its frame profile will be narrower than the door it replaced. This reduction in profile may have exposed a narrow strip of the outer brickwork on the insi...
Hi palstave,
In removing the old putty you will probably expose areas of bare timber. Paint these with an oil based primer/undercoat and allow this to dry before you add new putty - I assume you will be using oil based putty.
Regards S
Thanks MRW for the advice, I don’t understand what has changed but I have not made any changes my end and yet I can now open the images. Richroberts44, having looked at the pictures the tiling on your roof is awful but even if this is allowing rain ingress the underslaters felt should still direct a...
Hi richroberts44, Unfortunately the link to your photo does not work, it’s better to embed it in your post - go to the welcome page and on the right in the text there is a link on using the forum and how to embed images. Since you have fairly recently had the roof felt redone it is unlikely water wi...
