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Thanks for the reply Noseall. As you said, I will fix plenty of straps to the wall plate and take plenty of time on the joints. I decided on chemical fixings as the main wall is stone & lime mortar and although it looks fairly sound I thought it would be less stress than expanding bolts...

Hi, I've got an old stone house with a 60's single storey lean-to kitchen extension, block cavity construction with asbestos roof. I'm planning to remove the asbestos sheets & purlins fit a wall plate, pitching plate & rafters and as the roof is only 10° treat it as a warm flat roof with...

Hi, I'm having all the roof slates replaced next week, the old rag slates are too far gone to do an economical repair. The current roof has no felt or battens and will be replaced with felt, battens & Brazillian slate. I'm going to fit the facia, soffits & bargeboards myself while the scaffold...

Thanks Noseall, That makes things clearer. I was hoping to get away with not ripping the ceilings down. I've got plenty of headroom in the rooms so do you think it would be ok to put 75mm Celotex between the 100mm rafters and then if the insulation proves to be inadequate, rip down the...

Hi, We have a very old stone built house with a rag slate roof with no felt or battens. I've lagged the main roof space but the bedroom & bathroom at the back of the house have sloping ceilings because they are partly built into the roof space and are very cold because there is no insulation in...