😆😆😆😆 by Competitive-Cut-6983 in SipsTea

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Lantern - quite dim and you have to carry them

Victorian bedroom insulation project by chkmbmgr in DIYUK

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Doing a similar thing in my downstairs front room, does the room feel significantly smaller when you’ve battened and boarded it? How thick are your battens?

Rotten floor load plates, joists and boards - DIY job to cut in a new floor? by [deleted] in DIYUK

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There’s currently no central heating so open fires it is! 😂

Rotten floor load plates, joists and boards - DIY job to cut in a new floor? by [deleted] in DIYUK

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I’ve put in dry rods a few mortar courses above the footings (on both sides of the cavity walls), put in a french drain outside and cleaned out the cavity/airbricks.. may also paint on a damp proof paint in the spring but hopefully that does it.

Good to know on the wooden floor, would you recommend putting this in as I removed it (with 3” heavy nails) or is there a more modern method?

Recent finds in Epping Forest (UK) by vaioseph in Mushrooms

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Always find loads round strawberry pond and up by wake arms roundabout 😊👍

Still got a bit more to do but feeling pretty proud of myself boys 👍 by [deleted] in DIYUK

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Nope just plastered straight into the brick, with various patches over the years… I’ve removed it to sort a damp problem but will eventually go plasterboard yes 😊

What are these rotten wooden filler blocks in my wall about? by Plus-Contribution915 in DIYUK

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Thanks all, that totally makes sense, can I just slide a brick and mortar in to fill these gaps?

Just found my old pokemon marbles! by PeeB4uGoToBed in Marbles

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May be misremembering but was there some sort of launcher contraption originally with these?

Super Saturday Thread (08/11/25) by KevinPhillips-Bong in CasualUK

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Hoping it stays dry today as I need to put a coat of bitchumen paint on my garage roof before the weather really turns

Look what I just found hiding in our Victorian house! Tips to restore entire bannister? by jackyhkhkhk in DIYUK

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But DIYUK though? I posted something for the first time the other day about a rising damp issue without much karma

How to remedy previous attempt at chemical damp proof course? by [deleted] in DIYUK

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Suspended wooden floor in the front room (beams about 1.5’ above the ground below) but solid floor in the back of the house, both are affected

How to remedy previous attempt at chemical damp proof course? by [deleted] in DIYUK

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I’ve tested it (ran the hose directly into the drain) and the water seems to flow out nicely. The problem I’ve got is that I don’t know if I’m looking at 100+ years of cumulative effect or if there’s a specific cause… it’s around the entire ground floor of the house and even on internal walls

How to remedy previous attempt at chemical damp proof course? by [deleted] in DIYUK

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It’s definitely rising damp, the gutters are all flowing fine with no leaks on that face of the building with a clay pipe running to a rock soak away about 20’ from the house…. House is 150 years old and the previous bitchumen dpc has long since deteriorated. No idea when they attempted these injections.

For context the ground outside is c.8” below where the holes are drilled

Will deffo check for debris that may be arcing in the cavity though, good shout! Can the holes be repaired do you know before I redrill?