Recent content by rhythmstick33

Cheers. Do you think 15mm copper pipe would be OK?

Thanks. What thickness of stainless or copper should I go for?

Great stuff, thank you.

Is it possible to work out what shank length I need just by measuring the length of the exposed part of a good slate? (I'm trying to avoid having to hire a roof ladder twice.)

Thanks, so just hook it over the top of the timber or hammer it into it?

They are stone tiles, so pretty heavy. The pointed end of the slate hooks, does that need to go into a timber or is it enough just to wedge it between two existing stone tiles where there's no timber behind?

OK, cheers.

I have a stone roof and a couple of the stones have slipped, which I need to repair. Found a YouTube video of someone doing the same repair and he used lead strips to hook around the bottom of the slipped stones. Is this still the best practice? If so, what thickness and width of lead strips...

Thank you. I'll update in due course...

Many thanks for the reply. What mortar would you recommend to use up there?

Can anyone help?

Yeah, no chimney breast in the attic room. Not exactly sure what a purlin is but there's a couple of beams as you can see in this photo.

Here's a better photo. I've marked on it the route of the chimney according to the damp parts of the plaster.

The chimney is behind the internal wall you can see in the first photo.

Hiya, I have a problem with damp/water ingress in my attic room: You can see where I filled the cracks in the plaster with white filler. The damp patches seem to follow the course of the chimney breast down to the floor below. This is the chimney from the side: There are a few cracks in...