cellar

Dear DIYnot, Longtime lurker; first time poster, so be gentle! We're currently having our cellar tanked with a cavity drain system (Wykamol). It's the full works: membrane on walls & floor, perforated channel around the outside, sump with twin pumps, and I think I understand how it all...

I have just had the lath and plaster cellar ceiling removed. However, the contractor did not take down the small section beside the chimney breast. There's a metal protrusion and what appears to be solid concrete rather than lath and plaster around it. Does anybody know what sort of Victorian...

I'm living in a house with a cellar which currently doesn't have any air bricks. I want to install some but I have no idea where the cellar wall meets the outside world. Using a masonry drill, I started drilling a hole about two bricks down from the ceiling of my cellar and have got about 30cm...

I am looking for advice on the best method to remove rust and repaint steel joists in a small cellar. House is a 2 bed back to back mid terrace house built 1860 (Budget end). Front door opens on to pavement. The property has a small cellar (Approx 4m x 1.8m = 8m2) under the kitchen which...

Hi All Cellar of Midterrace Victorian (likely 1905 ish), not used for anything at all (currently empty) other than hosting the electric board and meter. We're having the front repointed, should we seize the opportunity to repoint the cellar too? One guy said he could render + put insulation, I...

Hi everyone. I'm hoping someone could give me a bit of advice. I want to create a small opening (no wider than a door's width) in the cellar's internal brick wall. The reason for this is because currently there is no access to the suspended floor below and I want to access it so that it's so...

Hi all, I’m looking for advice on a particularly tricky situation we’re having with our cellar (end of terrace 1880s Victorian house). We moved in 7 years ago and although everything in the cellar was slightly raised (insinuating there may have been previous flooding), we didn’t have any...

Hi, My cellar, which has always been a little damp seems to have got much worse over the past few months. During some really bad rain I could actually see it seeping through the walls and pooling up on the floor. I've had the guttering cleared as there was some overspill at the time. I was...

Hi everyone. Our cellar has a sleeper wall in the middle of it but is not honeycombed. Its quite musty down there and so I want to improve the cross ventilation by adding some air bricks to the sleeper wall. What I want to know is whether it's okay to have an air brick lower down the wall with...

Hello all, I'm just starting out with redoing the patio in my back garden as the original and addition section had all moved and most of the concrete pavers were rocking. I've pulled the old patio up and i think i know where I'm heading with the new one apart from one bit. There is a grate...

Hi Moved into my house a few years back and have recently been going through some documents I found relating to the house. One of the documents is the schematics for the house as it was in 1988 and another one with proposed alterations which is how the house is now, both documents show a cellar...

So, after starting a job today it soon turned into something else so thought I'd get the views of people on here. I live in a 1840's stone built end terrace. The previous owner has converted the basement but it leaks and the walls are often damp so it clearly hasn't worked. I'd love to rip...

My Victorian terrace has a large cellar that, while not liveable, is pretty dry and doesn't smell. Long-term, I'd like to convert it into liveable space but we don't need the extra room right now and it'd be expensive to do as it might involve lowering the floors. I'm 6'3" and can stand up in...

Hello. My cellar still got a bit of nasty humid smell. I already installed porcelain tiles, but the walls are drywall. I painted drywall with primer, which did not help at all. I heard that mould is not growing on concrete but it will in plasterboard, so would be clever to remove plasterboard...

I've just bought a house with a very usable cellar - it's been insulated and has heat and light and fully decorated - all with planning permission. We bought it as a non-habitable room for storage as it didn't meet building control. I've looked at the regulations and I'm not sure why it hasn't...

Hi All, We are going through a cellar to basement project and just want to ask a few details about the drainage layout and what offers both building regulation coverage, but also what is the most practical solution. We aren't 100% tied to the layout so if a more suitable layout would be...

I've just moved into a Victorian property with a cellar that I'd like to convert into a proper utility area for now and liveable space in the long-term. There are effectively three rooms in the cellar: one below the hallway, one below the living room (front) and one below the dining room (rear)...

I've just moved into a late-Victorian, mid-terrace property with a great space in the cellar that we want to use as a storage/utility area. While there is a useable drain, there is no ventilation to the space and I'd like to make sure I'm on the right track with my plans. Two surveys didn't...

I want to convert a coal chute cover to a window. Has anyone had experience of this? The current cover is on street level and the angled chute flows in to the cellar. The cast iron cover has gaps, which make the cellar very cold and with heavy rainfall small puddles appear at its internal...

Hi all, I'm replacing my kitchen in the next few months and I'm toying with the idea of creating a void below the kitchen floor and using it as a mini cellar/larder. I've seen ready made spiral staircase wine cellars, but that's way more sophisticated than I'm considering. It seems like an...