At last the revolutionary lime product that we have all been waiting for: From: https://vivus.solutions I have known for sometime that someday, someone (well I knew whom) would create a special lime product that would answer all the concerns that …
Bristol City Council came to the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (the STBA) to address the issues associated with the Solid Wall Insulation (SWI) works that they were doing. The video and associated tools (that can be found at https://warmupbristol.co.uk/content/planning-guidance-your-home) have been …
This is quite common to see bricks suffering from old age (and occasionally poor pointing) This is the type of wall that is commonly rendered over (using cement) because the bricks have lost their faces and hence are much more …
Last year we spent a lot of time getting the walls of our home sorted. I dug a trench around the house and installed drainage to make sure that rainwater was taken away from the plot as quickly as possible. …
In Wales we have had a tendency to design our houses with the minimal amount of overhang on the roof. The tiles sit very close to the walls. This has meant that anything else that we add to the depth …
Walls tend to have a lot of ‘punctures’ through them In the UK we build walls and then make holes in them. This is a bit strange when you think about it, but in older houses we are forced to …
Look no hands! Nine bricks being supported by their edges by a 10mm thick piece of cement render. I was planning on capping the wall that abuts into my house (this was to reduce the amount of water that is …
Haired lime putty render thrown into deep holes in wall One of the jobs associated with re-rendering the house has been to make good the walls before the main render coat is applied. This involves getting hold of some lime …
A piece of testing equipment! I had a question last week about which paint to use on a lime plastered wall that would be subject to heavy traffic. Now I had always used the official data for this answer, which …
The common thoughts about the cause of damp at ground level – rising damp Damp – It is a problem for many houses. Trouble is that we have coined a phrase that clouds our thoughts – ‘Rising’. Damp is the …
