Cavity wall mess

[Tim Watts]

Mine has blown fibre - no evidence of big holes unless they blew it down from the top.

[Uncle Peter]

Probably a better company than the council contractors here.

[Bod]

Rendering.

[Peter Johnson]

I had a semi-detached house cavity insulated around 20 years ago, before it went mainstream; I suspect that some fill went into the neighbours', they didn't do anything to stop it. (I realised after I'd left that house that I'd have had more benefit from increasing the amount of loft insulation; what the builders' had put in c1988 was barely an inch thick, I did add more but even more would have been better.)

[Jeremy Nicoll - news posts]

I don't know if the term is Scottish, but it's a common finishing technique here, at least for those not in stone-built tenements or grander hooses. I remember childhoood holidays in England where one of the things that made the place feel different was all the exposed brick buildings.

[ARW]

Only one single socket per room, no RCD protection and if the immersion was switched on at the same time as the kettle the fuse blew.

[Uncle Peter]

And that required pulling the walls down?

[ARW]

????????????

[Fredxxx]

Redecorating != pulling walls down.

[Mr Pounder]

Until a few days ago he did not know what a joist was.

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[Uncle Peter]

It's the same thing as a beam.

[Uncle Peter]

You removed the walls to fit some wires?!?

[Uncle Peter]

The plaster anyway.

[Uncle Peter]

I think brick looks nicer. I don't see why people f*ck it up with harling.

[Uncle Peter]

That sounds like the technical term. Harling is the colloquial term, or perhaps pebbledash.

[Johny B Good]

You walked right into that one, just like a 'newbie'. :-)

[Uncle Peter]

He must be a newbie if he has to redecorate after adding wiring.

[Tim Streater]

Are you a ghost or something?

[PeterC]

spititus ex machina

[Jeremy Nicoll - news posts]

Yuck; messy.