Airbricks

RosesInTheHospital wrote: »

I also get a smell like fresh plaster when I hang my washing inside the two rooms that were renovated and plastered 2 years ago. I assume its just the walls absorbing some of the moisture of the clothes?

I do have a bit of a problem in that respect - ie re washing. In my last house (a Victorian terrace) - I put my clotheshorse in the bathroom and hung sheets over the banisters to air.

In this house - I can't use the banisters (it's a bungalow), can't use the bathroom (it's too small), can't use the utility room (there isn't one), can't use the conservatory (there isn't one) etc - you get the picture.

My washing machine (which is only a washer - but does wring washing out pretty darn dry) means I still need to use my clothes horse. So that clotheshorse has been "on its travels" round the house ever since I moved here - as I try to find the least obtrusive place to put it. It's landed up being my study - though actually the problem is least noticeable in the study (may or may not be coincidental that my study is the warmest place in the house). It's most noticeable in my sitting room actually.

I had the entire house replastered soon after buying it - including putting up fake ceilings and skim plastering them (to hide the anaglypta wallpaper on the ceilings and rip down the cornices).

I estimate it's now been around 4 years or so since the replastering was finished.

Witless wrote: »

You telling her & her listening (& obeying) could be 2 different things.

As to the brick construction - surely it was plastered inside and not bare walls?

Plaster inside as per usual - in both houses.

I don't get the impression of the last owner of this house as being the sort of person that would stick around where they aren't wanted.

I had the feeling she wanted me to know what next door neighbour is really like (was like - as she's now moved). The nfh assured me she and last owner of my house were about as "thick as thieves" together. Well - I'm tapped into the local grapevine rather better than that - and the "grapevine" has told me that last owner of my house couldn't stand nfh next door.

I have the feeling that Last Owner wanted me to know the truth on that and re stuff to do with the house that nfh was assuring me was one way - but I could see that it's actually different to what nfh said.

So I have a bit of a feeling last owner was generally a fairly harmless sort of person/who just didnt have it in her to stand up to nfh next door.

Errrm....and if we're talking in New Age/more esoteric terms - my garden boundaries are surrounded by protective "white light" anyway. It was done to keep the neighbours out (as they were very intrusive to start with....) - but I guess would work against all intruders of any description LOL.

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On a different tack - I've wondered about the 2 chimney breasts in this house - but think I'd notice the walls by them being damp and there isn't any damp. I made sure that both (former) chimneys were suitably ventilated and the chimneypots suitably capped off back when I first came here - so they wouldnt create any problems for me.