Home improvement (5 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

Doubt we’ll ever find out. Hope there’s no need to anyway

I'm no engineer - but as the place hasn't fallen down so far, it's only like to be an issue if you extend, or if the ground it's standing on becomes significantly wetter or dryer in the years to come.

 

[ernesto]

I'm no engineer - but as the place hasn't fallen down so far, it's only like to be an issue if you extend, or if the ground it's standing on becomes significantly wetter or dryer in the years to come.

I think there may be subsidence somewhat.
Definitely was historically since all my floor joists were sagging toward the centre of the house before we started the work. And the house gets awful wet from the front (we have only recently cleared out a blocked French drain) and the neighbouring side. Crumbling adjoining wall plaster.
He was showing me his side and it’s definitely coming in the back of his house from a higher property (apartment block) that doesn’t get its drains / gutters cleared regularly enough. We’ve sorted a lot of water ingress / damp problems but there’s always more somewhere that will need ongoing maintenance!

We have a double story 1980s extension to the rear and it was just thrown up. Built directly on/into the neighbouring stone wall - not even any block work or an air gap. Essentially a lean-to mould trap.

We have plans to take back the wall to stone and potentially just like plastering it and leaving it and add vents where possible.
And hope for the best!

 

[ann post]

Doubt we’ll ever find out. Hope there’s no need to anyway

My grandmothers place was foundationless and the two things that we all remember is the moisture line on the walls of the living area would rise when the tide came in and it essentially had to be painted end to end annually to not be horrific to live in. I think you have foundations tbh.

 

[magicbastarder]

my wife asked me to make a new chopping board. this is made from the oak flooring i was given five or ten years ago.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

my wife asked me to make a new chopping board. this is made from the oak flooring i was given five or ten years ago.

View attachment 19068

you've gotten some mileage out of those boards!

 

[ann post]

my wife asked me to make a new chopping board. this is made from the oak flooring i was given five or ten years ago.

View attachment 19068

What size did you go for?

are we talking carrot or pizza here

 

[magicbastarder]

What size did you go for?

are we talking carrot or pizza here

31cm per side IIRC.

 

[magicbastarder]

you've gotten some mileage out of those boards!

and still some left!
plus, the offcuts are used for cooking pizza.

 

[pete]

and still some left!
plus, the offcuts are used for cooking pizza.

Grated or sliced?

 

[magicbastarder]

resawn.