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Big old trees close to your property do not only damage your houses and garages’ doors, but also are places for snakes, hidden cameras, and hiding intruders!

Excellent video with all the special effects 😂😂😂. Also very informative, thanks

Your a star!

Someone who hates English Ivy as much as I do. Here in the Pacific Northwest USA, it is a horrible invasive species. It kills big old healthy trees. We have parks that are nothing but English Ivy strangling trees. I hate the stuff.

What about builders crack? Or smoking crack?

Thanks Dave.

The Downpipe joints on 68mm always leak and don't even fit properly.

was watching the video with all seriousness until your dramatic way to end the vid. 🤣.. Thanks!

Fun video. I'll trim mine back a bit. 👍🏻

Bit superficial to be honest and in particular a tapered crack does not necessarily mean subsidence (which was not defined). For example it could be the opposite - heave. Anyone interested in cracking to their house would be well served to read Building Research Establishment Digest 251 (Assessment of damage in low-rise buildings) as this is the document most surveyors initially refer to anyway. Most importantly it concludes that “The only certain way of confirming the progression of damage is to take a series of measurements with time.”

He’s bang on with joist otherwise put up with dry rot.

Stops 5g and emfs

Ivy is amazing. Purifies the air we breath so those with asthma would benefit from having it around. It also attracts birds and bees. Covering your house can keep it 8% warmer in winter and 18% cooler in summer. Natural insulator

Keeping ivy away from the guttering is sufficient. I see many bigger tasteful houses clad in stunning ivy offering birds and bees habitat and food year round. Well maintained it will protect your wall. The claim that ivy on a wall makes it damp is NONSENSE. It is the opposite! Check the RHS website if you doubt this. The ivy drains the water off the wall surface through its aerial roots and the wall behind is dry whereas without the ivy a north facing wall would stay damp. Ivy does NOT penetrate sound brickwork. I've removed fence panels that were rotted away except for the ones covered in ivy for years which were bone dry and looked brand new underneath because they were protected from sun and rain. Modern age fixation with tidiness and killing things is leading to a wildlife apocalypse. Ivy on sound brickwork or rendered wall will do zero harm to the structure. Let it grow and help our dying wildlife. Its more important than garden vanity. Just keep it back from the gutters.

Air bricks may be important for moisture but as anyone with these kind of houses knows, they are very cold houses! Adding more airbricks should be followed by you need to insulated the floor too.

All houses on my estate have solid floors and cavity airbricks. I always thought airbricks were to keep air flowing through the cavity but now everyone is encouraged to cavity fill. These seem to fly against each other.

What can you do about the heat lose with cold air coming up through the floor because of the air bricks

I'd rather have the look and maintain it, all day long

This is a super helpful video and a great find. Subbed. Look forward to watching the rest of your videos. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Lol aint gonna happen just trim it

You can have a hot water tank and still have a new boiler. The header tank, meaning an open system, is an older/traditional system. Swapping to a combination boiler from a hot water cylinder system would require lots of pipe work mods, depending on the pipe work layout, combination boilers often struggle to serve simultaneous hot water demand and high flow showers.

Thank you this information is helpful

Ivy can also run off with your wife.

hahaha run!

Wish we got a full survey done on a recent house purchase! Garage conversion done on the cheap and the room is now ruined! 🙁

Just trim it. Problem solved. Safe ivy plants

Awesome visual effects, you guys could work for NASA.

Wtf

Haha 🤣

Is cross flow ventilation vital?

Man these are some good special effects - very helpful video.

house: I can't breathe

If I do the floor concrete do I need to do the Air brick

Very helpful information

Very helpful

So we are rebuilding and fixing up an older house, our plan is to cover it up so it doesn’t go airborne, is that something we should do?

Hi Dave Keith here, just a quick question if I may. We have an all brick "shed" with concrete flooring there is no air bricks at all in the walls, if I put some in with an air flow could/would that stop condensation building up? thanking you in anticipation. Keith

can we just appreciate the humor this guy has? :DD

Great video and to the point

Thanks for the tip that was useful

A while back our house was given an additional room from space that used to be two outdoor cupboards. It's been around 15 years since the upgrade and we had numerous "experts" in from the housing association to assess dampness issues. Throughout all this time none of them, have acknowledged that the floor is hollow and that there appears to be no air bricks at all present around the outside of the building. We're currently in the process of buying the house. Do you think we should take legal action to rectify this situation or are going to be better of counting our blessings and paying for airbricks to be installed from our own pockets?

Over the top...

He forgot to mention number 4. Ivy can creep into your home and in the middle of the night it will strangle you while you're asleep. Lol

No examples of cracks in internal walls or ones coming from the ceiling ?

I've just wasted five minutes playing/freezing/re-playing this video because I thought one of my damned alarms was going off. A warning would have been nice.

You didn't mention anything about that very visible diagonal crack on the corner of the window!

Great video!

If you don't trim English ivy and keep it at a certain height, it would grow wild and destructive looking like a mess. The plant looks nice when it's kelp neat.

What is the typical 'yellow' roll insulation made from?

Thank you very much for uploading this very informative video.