AlexW wrote:

A recent thread damp reminded me of some tanking to the single skin
"lean to kitchen" (now demolished) that a previous owner of my house had
installed.

They had used cloth potato sacks all around the bottom of the kitchen
wall behind the dry lining ... neat, I wish I'd taken a picture.

Other choice work was the woodwork treatment ... pasted newspaper to old
oak beams ... or maybe they just liked the effect ... it seemed to keep
the buggers in though.

And also a small section of medium density blockwork (say 1 m2) repair
(above a window) to a 18" rubble filled wall supported on a small timber
lintel nailed to another small one nailed to the nearest rotten floor
joist. The lintels had no support at either end. Unsurprisingly it all
fell down with a a little "coaxing".

Any one else care to share some bodges found?

Best one I heard of from a long ex G/F was teh place she bought that
featured shelving put up by driving small cold chsels into the 9" brick
walls.

My old house featured supermarket shopping bags inder teh carpets to
stop the sopping wet floorboards from staining te carpet. Workled well
for 6 years till I demolished it.

Oh, and the removeable carpet tiles that allowed access to the manhole
cover that teh extension had been built over...

...the bit of old leylanddi used to replace a rotten rafter...

TIA,

Alex.