Recent content by bobo29

Thanks. My fascia / soffits are all wood and aren’t in the best condition (including a hole where the former overflow pipe for the water tank sat), but I plan to get someone in next spring / summer to have a look at tidying them up, so will get him to check then. In terms of foil taping the...

Thanks for your reply. Would I stick anything down to the top of the wall to fill the tiny gap or is pushing it down as flat as possible sufficient? It’s a “cold loft,” so air can still get around from the loft, as I’m only using 50mm insulation board (rafters are 100mm).

Hi all My house has sloped ceilings (skeilings) toward the edges of the rooms with exposed rafter feet on the outside. The ceiling meets the wall at roughly 45 degrees for about the first 75 cm, before levelling off. Having taken the plasterboard off I see that there is no insulation...

Thanks for the reply Makes my life a lot easier!

I’m about to install some insulated plasterboard on an outside corner (around a redundant chimney breast). After it’s done I’ll be getting a professional plasterer in to tidy up and skim the rest of the room so it all looks the same. Just wondering, with the insulation being thick, what’s the...

Hi all Still a bit of a beginner here so hope you can help me. After having painted my windowsills with a gloss (uPVC Windows with a wooden internal windowsill) I have then gone around the frame with an acrylic internal frame sealant. This was about a year ago now. In the last few months...

Hi, I understand that but that isn’t my question. I was wondering if, because the chimney stack sits on the party wall, is there any possibility that I would have to potentially contribute toward the costs of repairing my neighbour’s chimney, bearing in mind that I also have my own chimney to...

Hi all, Just been up into my loft and noticed rain water trickling down the wall on the inside at the point where the chimney stack of my neighbour comes in to his house on our adjoining wall. I live in an end of terrace property (4 houses). Unlike many terraces the houses are not symmetrical...

Thanks for the replies all. Will investigate some rigid insulation.

Am looking to improve my loft insulation following recent removal of a water tank. There is already a bottom layer of insulation installed by the previous owners, in between the joists only. Not quite sure how to describe it, but the roof fits lower than the side walls and we have exposed...

Hi all My house has a thick concrete render which exists from new. It's starting to look a bit shabby now and most of my neighbours have had their house painted white (mine is currently magnolia) so was thinking of repainting. Can anyone recommend what company is best? I've heard conflicting...

Hi all First floor bedroom previously had a fireplace (removed a long time ago) and the concrete hearth was broadly level with the floor and was previously carpeted over. I’ve noticed that a part of it was cracked and not lying totally flush with the surrounding floor so I’ve removed the...

Have recently had a Triton Pirlo Thermostatic Bar Mixer installed to replace an electric shower. In the instructions (http://www.tritonshowers.co.uk/media/custom/upload/File-1532357017.pdf) it says that the Minimum hot water temperature is 55 degrees. I’d previously had my Combi boiler set...

Can’t answer that I’m afraid. By wide open, there’s a gap of about 1cm before the roofline starts. I wouldn’t say it’s wasted, the stack was very ugly and unsightly and would have required sealing if I’d have retained it. You could hear rainwater coming in when it rained!

Thank you. I managed to find a proper (i.e. non-Property Care Association) surveyor this week who visited and suggested that it may be a ventilation problem and suggested I install a vent in the bedroom to the chimney breast and an air-brick on the external wall going into the chimney breast...