Home DIY

Looks wet all down the corner, how’s the guttering above it? And it also looks like a real patchwork of repointing, maybe worth considering giving it a proper repointing that covers more of the surrounding area.

Machining metal with a wood router? Interesting. What cutter did you use?

Yeah, I did ask the guy who repointed the back of the house to patch that up, but guess I should have got him to rake it all out and repoint everything. It’s South facing and gets a lot of sun.

Yes, but with slow speed on the router and a normal 8 mm straight bit for wood, but an older one, looks still good to me.

There is no side gutter (that’s a downpipe from the upper gutter), so maybe that’s what the problem is.

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Does it perhaps splash where the pipe feeds into the gutter?

Haha yeah that is leaking from the top.

Also the adjoining gutter is a bit wild.

Get that shit show sorted then get the pointing un-ducked by a brickie or at least someone with a glimmer of competence

The brickie that did the other pointing referred to whoever did it as a ‘have a go hero’ 😆

I don’t even know what that shit is between the bricks. Mashed potato maybe.

Some of our pointing is in a similar state. Badly done cement over old lime, patched up rather than dug out and done properly. Looks horrible, lets water in. Hopefully being redone in spring.

Tried oxalic acid the first time.
All of my veneered seventies furniture has stains from liquid plus steel.
Didn't work on all surfaces with original finish, but seems to work so well it's motivating me to do a proper restoration (Sand, then acid, then oil) where it didn't work.

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Yeah, to echo ^, look at the guttering certainly. I had similar in the recent deluge where the guttering at the front had gathered moss all in one spot, which caused the water to collect, all spill in the same place, catch the lip on the way over which directed it straight back onto the brickwork.

Always must've dried out as quickly as it got wet until recently when I found the bay window ceiling dripping onto the lounge floor...

Finding a tin of rool seal in the basement confirmed that it'd probably happened before too for the prev owners :/

This can’t have helped. My own fault for letting it get like that, but at lot of it is sand from the rake out that I was told was cleaned up 😣

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rake it all out and repoint everything

This, but with lime mortar - assuming thats a solid wall. The damage to the bricks is because of the cement mortar used previously.

What's the floor construction? It looks like itnis level with the outside, which makes me wonder about any DPC being breached.

As well as the dreadful pointing a fair few of those bricks look to have failed, and should be replaced.

100% the guttering causing this. Pissing out over the top of the gutter at speed. Cut up a drink bottle to channel it properly.

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You could just have that downpipe exit onto the extension roof and run off into the gutter

No good deed goes unpunished. Replaced a couple of knackered shelves in a kitchen cupboard and plugged a draughty hole in the floor I found underneath.
Now the cupboard is full of condensation because it's built against solid walls on the corner of the house. I guess the draught was keeping them dry.

Your conduit box should be pointing down, with a cable loop below so the water has somewhere to drip off. There is a water ingress point. DAMHIK

I think someone in this thread hired a dehumidifier - where from and would they recommend? Or any other suggestions? I've come to help my dad after a flood and it would be useful to dry things out properly. He was away over the cold snap and came back (last night) to an inch of water in the back room and utility. Wet vac has been put to work this evening.

I mean, I wouldn’t like to rely on a PVC conduit box/lid and rubber seal to prevent water ingress in the first place tbh.

Unless you really want one permanently I would hire one that's designed to dry buildings after a flood.

If you really want one long term Meaco is a good place to start.

Won't the insurance provide one?

Don't think he's planning on bothering insurance.

Could rent a heavy duty one for a few days that would work.

Where does one hire a dehumidifier from? That's what I'm trying to get at