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We are having a new bathroom fitted in our victorian terrace and returning the lowered ceiling to its original height. On opening up corner of the lowered ceiling to have a look, we discovered the that at some point the old chimney stack had been removed to ceiling height and left unsupported...

We’re in the process of opening up a redundant fireplace in our bedroom The original chimney breast was hidden behind a stud wall and we basically want to open it back up with a vent in the flue and re-fit a cast iron front so it looks the part but doesn’t need to function. Peeling back the...

We are looking into doing a side return extension on our Victorian terrace but not sure if it’s possible with the location of our drain inspection point (see pic). We want to extend the kitchen right out to the fence line but this would be over the drain Inspection point. We are in a row of 4...

Unfortunately the full roof load of good natural slates that came off went into a skip. We will be checking for leaks regularly but are now accepting its probably a case of when not if it happens, at least until we can get it sorted properly when we get our slates relayed. The contractor said...

Thanks for the advice all. We got an assurance that any leaks would be fixed but nothing more, and aesthetically it will still look out of place. We will be paying to have it sorted properly when we eventually re-roof ourselves (in proper slate)

I mentioned it to my neighbour and he was fine about it plus let me go up and have a look (see pic) going to have a word with the contractor today

The pic isnt great as hard to get a good angle but the neighbouring roof is tiled and they have just got the ridge left to do now. From what research we have done we had expected some felting or a dry bonding gutter but thought that would have been the first thing to go on not done last? what...

Hi, We live in an old Victorian terrace from about 1870, the roof is mainly original with slates but no underfelt. At some point someone has put mortar under the tiles (not sure if this is usual). There were a few gaps with daylight showing here and there but mainly fine, especially on the...