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Thanks for your replies. The purlin is shown on the plans and I assume it's wood it just doesn't have any sizes. It's certainly not suppose to be steel as you can see the steel on the floor /-/ kind of like that but straight and horizontal lol the purlin is shown as a square with a squiggle in...

The builder has liaised with the engineer, he was suppose to come here today and I was hoping to fire lots of questions at him. The builder thinks what he has done is adequate as does the engineer but they both say if that's what BC want then it has to be done.I wouldn't know where to start...

Thanks for your reply. Yes on the plans showing the flat roof coming off the ridge of the roof, just a metre or so from the ridge there is a square with purlin pointing to it. The write up for the roof says: 10mm stone chippings on 3 layers of built up felt to BS 747 utilising 3G felt base layer...

Oh and does anyone know why wood isn't adequate enough to hold a rubber roof 6m x 4m??? Is the inspector right to make us remove the wood purlin and replace with steel??? Thanks x

Hi I'm after some advice please. We are having a loft conversion with full length dormer. due to the pitch of the roof the entire right hand side will be a flat rubber roof. The builder has constructed the roof in accordance with the plans. The plans showed a wood purlin however this was not...

Thank you i will investigate tomorrow during daylight hours!! There is quite a draft coming from the large hole at the bottom and if i stick my hand into the cavity it feels dry - the top of the window feels totally dry but again i'll had a good prod at it tomorrow. The paint we had put on the...

Sorry dont know what you mean; its just brick all the way up to the roof, no windows above.

thanks is that simple enough to do? my husband isn't great at diy ;p

hmm not sure why the last one didnt rotate but the bricks above the window look a little out of place iykwim!!

the 1st one is where dh put some clear sealent when we had a wet sill a few years back - to me it looks pretty watertight from the outside??

uploading some now - ty

I am in the process of decorating my lounge and whilst i was stripping the wallpaper around the window it wasn't just the wallpaper that came away. All the plaster fell off and beneath it was, well i think it was crumbled plaster sopping wet. How to i fix this, do i need to put sealant between...

Thanks for your replies - wish i'd known all this beforehand but i guess its a case of learning the hard way!! :( So now the question is how much am i looking at??

There isn't anything behind the flashing, they didnt cut into the brickwork at all!! I pointed this out to them when they last came round, I showed them my neighbours porch and told them the flashing should have been done the same but they said no the water is not water getting in there - it is...

thank you very much for your useful reply!! Is this something that can be easily rectified?? The roof angle slopes approx 20degrees and the bottom end is roughly 8-10 inches lower that the top. I did question whether it was the flashing and pointed out that it should have maybe been fitted...