Recent content by rreanor

Sorry I mean just replace them with generic cottage style windows, rather than keeping them the same look. The house isn't in a heritage area, so I just want decent windows but which don't look like cheap new build ones.

I couldn't care less tbh, I'd rather make the house more efficient. It's not like it's a Tudor house! Happy to patch repair in the near term and replace them longer term. As such, do modern equivalent look decent? What are the options?

The one at the top is the most problematic as it's a bay window. Here's another one from the other side . You can see the rot at the bottom

It doesn't look stuck on! Are you sure? Here's a closer pic

Looking at a property which was built 1920ish and has black painted timber frame lead lined windows, many of them have rot. Attached are some examples. Are we looking at replacements or fixing? What are the costs? If replacement, can you replace with double glazed versions? It's not listed or...

Thanks. What costs and hassle are associated with this roughly? I've only ever done work under PD

I'm wondering if planning permission would be required to convert a single skin brick outbuilding and link it up to the main house. Currently there is a path which separates the two. This is essentially a garage conversion plus short hallway to connect the two. See pic.

I'm buying a leasehold flat which is in the top floor of a 30s block in london, it is a masnard style roof and i want to know how much of a likely issue this is going forward. Is this style of roof a problem waiting to happen? There is no evidence of any leaks in the flat itself, however you...

I've had a couple of rooms which have had the rads turned off for over a year, as i dont use them. I've turned one of them back on, and it's not getting hot whatsoever. At first i thought i'd unbalanced the system, but i've turned off all the rads now except that one, and it's still totally...

I'm in a large 4 bedroom house and up until now i've turned off 2 radiators in rooms i never use. I'm now turning them back on and finding the system tricky to balance. There are 6 very large radiators in the system, as it's a poorly insualted house and the rooms are massive (high ceilings)...

I had a full house rewire in 2021 when I bought a renovation job. I never actually got the completion certificate, and now I've come to sell I need it for the sale process. I've sent a few messages to the electrician and now he's stopped replying. Surely it's easy for him to just...

I have an existing soil stack which I can't get lead flashing behind. Any suggestions? See pic, the corrugated asbestos has now been replaced with slates.

But how would I get that round the pipe, it goes all the way up to th top of the house

Just trying to think of the best way to slate around this soil pipe and avoid water getting into the roof around where It meets the roof. It already has old lead flashing around it, but I can't quite decide if it needs another piece which sits underneath thr slate above but overlaps tthe one...

This is what I need! I've fitted a third of the slates now, is it possible to fit one without removing them all and starting again?