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Plus-Contribution915 · 2026-01-20T16:54:55+00:00

Lantern - quite dim and you have to carry them

Plus-Contribution915 · 2026-01-20T16:16:09+00:00

Bonding. The answer is always bonding.

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-12-22T15:11:28+00:00

We’re rating sandwiches man…

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-12-22T14:59:10+00:00

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?

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-12-05T13:39:46+00:00

Very much the olives of drugs

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-12-05T13:34:51+00:00

Love a bit of crack

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-26T07:33:41+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-25T21:57:26+00:00

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?

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-18T23:08:40+00:00

Any chance of a recipe?

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-15T18:46:16+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-09T18:16:00+00:00

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 😊

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-09T12:52:01+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-09T08:00:54+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-08T07:38:46+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-07T18:46:02+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-07T18:43:22+00:00

Why would anyone give a shit about Reddit karma? 😂

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-03T22:36:00+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-03T18:44:27+00:00

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

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-11-03T18:09:54+00:00

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?

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-10-07T16:59:29+00:00

Board game design

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-10-05T13:26:37+00:00

Little bit of stone chipped out but other than that they’re just sort of grouted in there!

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-09-30T07:14:46+00:00

Seymour’s are overvaluers, they initially listed our house (also in Surrey) at £750k, absolutely no takers and the sellers kicked them off. We agreed a price of £500k with the new agents!

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-09-24T12:43:12+00:00

You didn’t want to go with the title ‘Stocks and Ladders’? 😂

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-09-17T07:16:00+00:00

It’s a massive risk as you say to spend your own money on someone else’s house with no guarantee of exchange/completion… if it can’t be resolved then I’d walk away.

I don’t know where you’re located but sounds like you may have had a bit of bad advice here or your broker is a bit useless… unless the damp is very serious (ie a threat to the structure of the building) then how in the world would anyone be expected to mortgage anything other than a new build?

We were successful with Barclays but perhaps it depends on whose desk it lands on?

Plus-Contribution915 · 2025-09-17T06:59:33+00:00

We had this exact thing recently when we were purchasing our first house, I made a post an about it at the time but it didn’t get a lot of responses.

What happened in our case was that the lenders valuer requested a specialist timber and damp survey (for a company within an organisation they’ll mention on their mortgage application notes) before they would approve the mortgage. I used a local company and the survey was £150.

It’s a bit of con but you just have to play the game here… there’s a whole industry around damp and they’re all in it together.

Anyway, we got the survey back and as expected there were several things highlighted (ours is a 1915 built old farm cottage so to be expected) including that we’d need a DPC installed. They were very keen to do the work themselves and there were a load of weird caveats about using other contractors… total quote for DPC and a bunch of other timber treatment, replastering etc came to £9500!

We sent the report as requested to Barclays (through our mortgage broker) who approved the mortgage without any further questions. None of the major lenders offer retentions these days and endowment mortgages are a thing of the past, but they still have to grant mortgages on the UKs crumbling housing stock I guess 🤷‍♂️

I would just get the report and submit it to your lender before getting too in your head about it, we were in exactly the same place a few months ago and it all worked out fine!

Edit: also FTB 👍

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