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Best Bodges?
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. |