Owning your own home

these, if memory serves:
https://www.equipeceramicas.com/en/portfolio-item/artisan/

Thanks!

Does anyone have any experience using Wykamol / Sika / Synthaprufe tanking slurry and waterproof membrane products to reduce damp ingress?

• I've got a garage that has brick walls and a concrete floor. Two of the walls have surrounding earth/soil above the damp-proof course.
  Removing the soil from the exterior surrounds of the garage isn't going to be possible, so I am hoping to use something to reduce/prevent the damp in the garage.
  

No but that sounds very similar to my garage, so keen to hear thoughts too.
I am also wondering about insulation. It's detached and made from a single skin of blockwork. Is insulation going to help if there isn't anything to keep it warm?

Continuing the door theme - anyone recommend a company for a new Victorian front door? Prices seem to vary wildly for no discernible reason..

forget about socio economics of gentrification but this video kinda nails why I hate victorian/1930s/old as shit houses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsC5hNfPU4&ab_channel=Vox

this is dreamy IMO

If it cheers you up any, between my possibly reclaimed victorian door and my crumbling victorian house is an incongruous modern porch. Looks dreadful but too practical to lose.

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doesent look like that now obvs, nice bin store in corten steel

Also interested.

Zinsser have an interior paint product meant for this too. Which I was thinking of using when I get around to it. But only because... well... its made by Zinsser.

Any chance of a summary so we don't have to watch?

Yeah, have always liked that after seeing it in one of the design / arch mags. Mainly because it gets rid of timber sash windows, the devil's window.

Functionally lots of terraced houses in more expensive bits of London have become like that anyway - after you add a curtain wing, side return extension, loft conversion, pod and tanked basement there is very little left of the original fabric of the building beyond the party walls and the facade.

hate to admit i do agree with you. was visiting friends in bristol this weekend who had bought a really really nice victorian mid-terrace 3 bed in montpelier. wasnt even much of a "doer-upper" and perfectly fine to live in but just loads of painful shit to sort out like drafty windows, crap wiring etc.

full transparency i live in a newbuild maisonette styled like the neighbouring edwardian properties. there can be a happy medium........... i think

Keeping on the theme - builders started on the heavy stuff in our 1906 mid-terrace today.

First threshold will have french doors, with an unglazed transom/fanlight above for plonking some plants on or similar.
Kitchen will be open to the dining room, to the left will be some full-height bifold doors out into the yard.

Let there be light!

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no

Yeah, I never understood the obsession with low quality housing in the UK. It's like the Cubans and their cars but without the actual shortage.
It's some kind of weird poverty chic.

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Because new builds have an equal level of build quality, and the really shit ones haven't fallen down yet?
At least the older houses have been stood for 100 years.

the obsession with low quality housing in the UK

Isn't it just that the vast majority of the housing stock is old? It's not much of a choice.

I couldn't watch that due to their hideously irritating voices.
STFU narrators.

i live in a newbuild maisonette styled like the neighbouring edwardian properties. there can be a happy medium........... i think

Like this example built in 2012 to match the original victorian properties (check the history on streetview)

I live in a 1920s red sandstone terrace, which is still drafty as shit with a laundry list of to-do items still remaining (even after comprehensive refurb) - keep idly daydream about moving to a 60s+ house and fully retrofitting it to passiv standards

I genuinely thought you were being sarcastic until I checked the history.

Jingoism architecture harking back to the good old days

Thats an interesting one, nice to do it properly.

The odd looking gaps in streets with old housing are often bomb sites infilled with square modern 1950s houses after the war. So it may have been actually returned to what it was originally.