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?

TIA,

Alex.