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What you say about it being unlikely that damp would travel horizontally from the boundary wall to the side of the door without showing more near the corner makes sense to me. Also, the only indication of damp inside the house that I can see is adjacent to the door (on both sides) and so may be...

Thanks for your reply. That’s interesting. I must admit I had always assumed they were somehow connected to the difference in level between our two houses – the marks extend up the wall by 9 bricks, which is exactly the difference in level between our two houses. They have always been there...

I have some “damp marks” on the lower outside face of the rear of my house, which I think might be coming from an attached boundary retaining wall. My house is a 1920’s terraced house on a hill road. My neighbours’ house is set 9 bricks higher than mine and at the rear of our houses there...

So “copper roofing rivet”, “copper disc rivet” or “copper tail rivet” – thanks for the links.

After having a couple of roof windows installed I’ve found some of these clips/rivets lying around having been removed from the roof and discarded by the contractors. They appear to be made from copper. I can see from the undisturbed areas of the roof that these devices help to prevent wind...

Here’s a better photo showing the roof area between the two windows. You can see there are only two uncut rafters remaining and both of these are used as trimmer rafters. I’m not a great fan of rules of thumb but isn’t there a “good practice” rule that says “cut 1 or 2, add 2” (I’ve seen...

Best photo I have, I’m afraid. Still you can see the two cut rafters for the right hand window opening. The adjacent left hand opening is just visible. In the roof area between these two openings there are just two intact rafters both of which will be called on to be the trimmer rafters. It...

Loft Windows

I’ve just had two 78cm by 98cm Velux windows fitted by a local roofer into the rear slope of my 1920’s terraced house roof. The windows are placed on the same level in the slope with just over 800mm of roof surface between them. The rafters are 4inch by 2inch on approximately 400 mm centres...

Is there any product for repairing surface damage to laminate worktops? I’m installing a bathroom with white gloss laminate worktops from Mereway Bathrooms (I believe they are melamine-faced chipboard). I was fixing the tops from below with screws and made a silly mistake of using a screw...