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    Damp / Water Ingress Problem?

    What’s the outside wall(s) like in terms of how well protected/pointed, any leaking gutters/downpipes etc. Photos will help
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    Bottle gulley and aco drains install

    I deffo wouldn’t do that, I know it’s a faff but re-routing the aco and rainwater pipe into that IC, is gonna be a better solution and worry free then
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    Water pooling near backdoor

    Drilling a few holes in it may help if you go all the way through with a long bit Or bed a paving slab or two down so you’ve got a dry bit to step out onto
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    Replacement of lath and plaster ceiling

    Agree. I’ll randomly give you a guesstimate figure of about £350 ballpark which it might cost. It wouldn’t be that much less, if you went for just a skim
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    Loft already boarded - but only 100mm insulation

    Not sure there are many other options? Your additional 300mm will get you better than most houses. Not sure what the condensation concern is.
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    Replacement of lath and plaster ceiling

    You wouldn’t need to fill. As long as you do a decent job of boarding it (right direction across the joists, stagger the boards, enough screws, gaps no more than about 8mm ish) any plasterer would be good to go.
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    Replacement of lath and plaster ceiling

    It’d be easifil, and they’d need to be tapered edged boards. I wouldn’t go that route, and pay someone a couple of hundred to skim it instead.
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    Bottle gulley and aco drains install

    Is it vented at the top? Probably needs to be, that’ll reduce chance of it pulling the gulley
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    Damp cause by a possible damaged roof or capped chimney

    I thought that, but then realised the photo is taken in the (converted) loft.
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    Damp cause by a possible damaged roof or capped chimney

    That looks like a leaking roof, not condensation, and totally unacceptable to tell you to wait until March!
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    Don’t understand want this hole is in my wall the flute above is from My boiler

    Sorry, I was talking about the upstairs bit. Overflow to left of bricked up bit. Missed the downstairs part
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    Don’t understand want this hole is in my wall the flute above is from My boiler

    Looks like an old overflow from a toilet cistern, at that height. It wouldn’t be causing foul smells.
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    Cheap hard core wanted

    The thread title got me interested, but I misunderstood. Local facebook pages is a good shout, often people want rid of it. Or grab hire companies can often offload it.
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    Garden house dimensions maths check

    If you weren’t clear what 6x4 meant, I guess the builder could claim it’s the overall footprint including things like soffit/gutter/roof overhangs which it probably will be
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    Replacement of lath and plaster ceiling

    It’d be 12.5mm yes, but removing the lath and plaster is a very messy and unpleasant job. Many, many ceilings in houses like that are overboarded lath and plaster, it’s a very common system, so I’d say yes to removing the existing boards, but do a proper job (not hard, use the right length...
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