Recent content by MacLaverty

So is it just worth leaving it as it for a few months and then re-plaster once salts stop or do I need to strip it the other 1.5 inches back to brick which I really don't want to do to let it dry out? Also, would I use regular plaster to repair the whole or could I use tanking slurry as well to...

Brilliant, thank you. Replacement it is..

Yorkshire water now deciding it isn't their responsibility to fix. Had a few firms out to quote and not sure whether to go for an internal pipe repair, resin lining, on the bend or for about £100 more get the rest bend fully replaced. What would be best?

125 year old Victorian terrace and had penetrating damp on external wall, cracked soil pipe now fixed, and damp/ salts coming through a small amount into internal lounge wall. Stripped paint off but salts still appearing through plaster. I have now chipped away the smalls section of plaster...

Yorkshire water have been tonight and cammed the whole thing and turns out I have a shared sewer so Yorkshire water will fix it!

So I dug under the pipe this evening to check and huge cracks under the pipe and the concrete where the bend meets the clay lateral sewer pipe has pretty much completely come away so vast amounts of water coming out from under the pipe and there is a pretty big cavity directly underneath the...

As in to replace the piece?

Well now the sealant has stopped the leak... Pretty lucky right now haha. I guess it would just be someone having to smash the concrete out to gain access to the pipe to then replace it if it did leak as wouldn't put tons of concrete in.

The adhesive sealant has stopped all water coming out for now. Could I just fill the hole around the pipe with quick setting concrete to hold everything in place rather than replacing or am I asking for trouble further down the line?

I've botched it a bit pending it being fixed properly and has substantially slowed down the water. Would you just get the cracked bend piece replaced with plastic pipe where is meets the lateral clay pipe or would you replace the entire pipework leading to the boundary about 1.5metres away all...

Unfortunately there is a crack that runs down the pipe directly underneath the large crack and it won't let me post a video but it's a lot of water that is coming out.

I have just discovered we have a crack in our soil pipe just under the ground where the soil pipe enters the sewer system and water is pouring out into the ground causing rising damp on the wall next to it. I have attached a picture, do I call Yorkshire water to repair or do I need a drain...

It was sealed a long time ago, probably at least 10 years+ and only lived in the house for 2 years so no idea. No bottom vent fixed and radiator in front of the old fireplace opening but no issues at all on the chimney stack apart from these salts. The bricks were completely white with salts...

In 2023 I had a chimney leak where the chimney stack below the roof line was getting extremely damp to about 1/3rd of the way down the stack below the roof line. In Jan 2024 we had the chimney sorted; all new lead, chimney pots and cowl all checked, new concrete flaunching and all mortar...

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