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Yes we did a load of cutting back ivy and nettles this year and cleared drainage ditches. We’ve “lost”one small building / stall to bats - but they’re quite cute and we have an old open hay barn which looks precarious but seems to stay upright.
Cow shed from the front and you can see it still resembles a house -
Yes brickwork, plaster is indeed damp, fucked and removed. Think I’ll give it a go, cheers
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The builder has started removing plaster from our kitchen wall and has mentioned a dehumidifier may help dry things out , is this a rental job or would something like this do the job?
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ebac-powerdri-18ltr-dehumidifier-unit/41553
It’s for a quarter of a wall in a kitchen / diner of a typical London Victorian terrace -
Cheers, not too bad then, I reckon if you can get a heifer through our door a micro-digger will fit.
I think ours will be something we do in the longer term, and something we’d have to get someone experienced to look at re new roof, wall loading etc. -
Have you any plans on how your doing the floor, damp proofing etc. We have a cowshed as well, it’s stone probably a few hundred years old and was a classic style Irish stone farm house until the 1940s when a new house went up and it was converted. It still has concrete stalls in it and it seems a bit of a waste to leave it slows decaying. Only photo on the phone is the back of the building- also no windows .
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Yes the damp meter read pretty high up in ours :(
Please tell me you got it sorted, I have nightmares about this being the bane of my life forever (or until we move to Ireland). -
Return of builders into the house:(
Waited for a recommended builder to be available and today he starts removing all the damp plaster in the corner of our kitchen prior to damp proofing being applied. God knows what disasters he’s going to find. The plaster is pretty fucked now but still no real clue where the damp is coming in. Going to get a drain pipe sleeved as well.
Hopefully start of before and after photos ; Shagged plaster; -
Interesting study just published on why the UK middle classes all want to be working class;
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038520982225 -
Nice Brietling!
At home beer and paneer curry on the go, tool watch time
Meanwhile in London some rather shagged kitchen brickwork .