Recent content by ElizabethMcC

thanks Nige, sounds like a good idea. I'm going to speak to a scaffolding company and see what they say. I had thought roped access would be cheaper, but they all seem to cater for industry only, so a piddling little job like mine doesn't seem worth bothering them with!

thanks for your reply Jason. the single width worries me though since the tower will need to be quite high - it's a 3 storey house. Do you think this would be safe?

This is a really tricky one! We have a gutter just under roof level at the back of our house that's leaking - causing torrents of water to land on the patio when it's raining heavily. There is no space to get a ladder through the house (which is terraced, so no side access), and there's not...

Hi everyone, I hope you can help with my query. When we bought our basement flat, the surveyor used a damp meter and detected high levels in some of the internal walls, although he said as these had been plastered over and there was no visible damp coming through, I shouldn't worry about it...