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Obviously depends where you are, but that sounds pretty fair to me. Lime will help wick out any moisture in the walls, and it's often more than twice the price of cement. We're having to have the entire 3-storey rear elevation repointed in lime after botched cement pointing decades ago, and it's an ...

realslyshady

Hi folks, Seeking some advice on repairing some rotten joist ends. This is in the ground floor of a Victorian stone/rubble house. The joists are huge — 9x3" / 225x75mm. The wall has had significant damp which we're putting right, and the airbricks in the floor void have been covered up — I'm un...

realslyshady

Hi folks. My wife and I have just bought a 3-storey semi-detached Victorian house in need of complete renovation. Needs pretty much everything doing except the roof. At some point in its history, the house has suffered subsidence, which is no longer an issue, but has left all kinds of weird angles t...

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Hi everyone. I hope you can help, because I feel like I'm losing my mind. My wife and I have just bought a 3-storey semi-detached Victorian house in need of total renovation. We knew it needed the works, and it does. Rewiring, replumbing, repointing, everything. Fine. But I'm going crazy trying to n...

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Re: Advice on Quote for Re-rendering 1850's House

Replacing Rotten Joist Ends in Ground Floor of Victorian Stone House

Lowering Ground Floor Joists to Level Floor?

Breathing Walls and Damp Proofing Walls - What to do!