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Mortar on the reverse of the tiles to seal the gaps when there’s no felt.

There isn’t, and putting it in is going to be a bigger pain than insulating the roof. Imagine I’ll end up doing both.

Yes, I get that - having the wind whipping through the attic has made the house cool down much more quickly upstairs than with the old torching in place.

No, but the rooms underneath were cold before, and are even colder now - and to insulate the attic floor would be reasonably involved due to layout, joist depth etc.

Not this much draught…

Looking at a 1920s roof with no felt - some tiles (flat and ridging) were replaced after storm damage a while ago, but none of the replacements had the torching put back. There are some big gaps and it’s very draughty - I was thinking of trying to line it across the rafters with a membrane...

Thanks -that makes perfect sense (now I’ve realised what the tail adaptors are for).

Thanks both - so something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-compression-adapting-male-coupler-15mm-x-1-2-/69358

Revisiting this - (finally) got around to fitting the replacement tap today, but the tails fit slightly deeper into the body of the new one. This means the new 300mm flexis are around 20- 25mm too short to fit onto the plastic water pipes with the compression fittings; I would just chop the...

If anyone is going to be paying anything, it’s the agent and not me (but that doesn’t seem to be a concern at the moment).

The landlord only found out two days ago…

And the “warning notice” (received along with a £3k quote to sort from the same in-house gas engineers):

Failed the gas safety inspection, apparently not safe to use:

Thanks all. The (large, national chain) agent is beneath useless and will be losing the business. I’ll hopefully find out if anything was actually done to the boiler when another gas engineer visits this week (apparently this same boiler was condemned six weeks ago at its inspection - only just...

It’s a managed property, it was a failure of the managing agent.