Intro ...

[AbsoluteBeginner]

Previously I've only part-renovated a house before, kitchen/bathroom/re-wire/repaint/new carpets (ok, just planned and then paid the bills).

 

The current work is on a cottage from 1860 with damp issues, and the renovation has been forced on us by a severe flood. The insurers aren't paying for build-back-better as it happened last year and they had only joined the scheme for policies starting later than our renewal. 

 

Regardless, we've so far not found builders or surveyors with good knowledge of how to apply flood resilience on an old property when the normal wisdom is to let everything breathe. We have a builder now, seems a good sort and so far admits when he doesn't know something.