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When topping up my loft insulation I found that the cavity in the walls of a BISF house extends right up to the loft, which if the roof has its original asbestos sheeting is extremely well ventilated. Therefore I would say that wall cavity is very well ventilated (if you make a hole in the internal ...

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I'm in Bath, so the water is very hard as the surrounding district has limestone geology. Where do you get soft water to fill a central heating system if your tapwater is hard?

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Hmm, doesn't look that much like the image results I got from Google. Here is a photo of it (not close-up, as it wasn't taken for the purpose). You can see how it has been applied to the concrete render, steel window surrounds and steel cladding upstairs. This is the south-facing back of the house w...

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Thanks welsh brickie - is there any way I can tell whether it is tyrolean plaster? Normally I would try scraping away an inconspicuous bit as a test, but there isn't really an exterior wall that is hidden away where it won't notice.

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Just to follow up, thinking about it I'm not sure if it is pebble dash because:- a) It's very thin. It's only about as thick as a layer of paint with fine particles of stone/mineral stuck to the surface. b) It's applied to steel cladding as well as render, which seems odd. I thought pebble dash was ...

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The pebble dash on my house is starting to become loose and flake off in small patches. As pebble dash is a pet hate of mine (horrible grim, dirty pinkish-grey colour) I'd like to remove it but I'm worried if I start I'll get half of it off and find the other half impossible to remove. Downstairs it...

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My new house has a microbore central heating system running from a back boiler with hot water tank (ie not the combi type I'm used to). Anyway, the system works, but I'm not sure how well as I have not moved in yet. What should I look out for? The internal walls of the house are hardboard on timber ...

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On sunny days the air in loft spaces tends to heat up even if the air outside is cold. I was thinking that all that heat goes to waste as it's insulated from the house by loft insulation. While making some thermostatically controlled fans for an electronics project, the idea came to me of putting so...

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Just to clarify, I'm talking of the standard rate from Halifax being more than the one from Nationwide, not that Halifax are charging more because it is a BISF house, they charge that rate for an 85% mortgage regardless of construction type.

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It turns out it was rejected due to the original asbestos roof, which Nationwide apparently will not lend on. They will lend for BISF and other steel-framed houses, but not if they have asbestos roofs. My argument is that the asbestos roof was an inherent part of the BISF construction (ie all BISF h...

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I am trying to buy a British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) house, which is a type of steel-framed house. After doing some research I found that not all lenders will lend on this type of house, so the first thing I asked was whether Nationwide would offer a mortgage on a BISF house. After some tel...

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Magnolias come in many varieties and range in size from quite small to large trees, so you need to be a bit careful of which one you get. Magnolia stellata is one of the smaller ones, it is also slow-growing.

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This sounds like mould growing where condensation forms. Do you live in an old, poorly insulated home? I live in an old Victorian house with solid (ie no cavity) walls that get very cold in winter. When warm, damp air (moisture from breath, cooking, showering etc) comes into contact with them, conde...

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My thinking was that the exterior steel cladding will be such a good conductor of heat that the surface that faces the wall cavity is going to be cold no matter how poorly insulated the interior leaf of the wall is . Therefore, improving the internal insulation should not cool that steel surface sig...

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Thanks for your suggestion Welsh Brickie. This is pretty much what I was thinking of doing, but I was a bit concerned about reports of condensation problems. I take it that it's necessary to leave an air gap between the super10 and the external leaf of the wall to allow airflow? Sounds as though it ...

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