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The problem that you can’t see in the photo is that the adjacent fence is actually a retaining wall that drops down ~1m and all the current pipes and actual bench in is directly under the wall. So it’s a considerable amount of work with potential disruption to neighbours etc. The gully that’s...

Yeah, that is what was suggested, connecting into the old gulley. So the better idea is to go straight into the existing pipe in blue? The complication is our water mains and another public drain running somewhere along there so access will be difficult. The manhole at the bottom of that...

We’re trying to connect the sink waste from our new extension to an existing drain on our property. The original idea was to connect to the public sewer that runs along our property (which only serves next door and not us) but access and depth (2m) mean that it would cause a lot of destruction...

We are having a single story gable house extension built. The roof pitch is 15 degrees so we have gone for a low pitch Sandtoft 20/20. The idea was to have a wet verge, but the roofers have put these roof tile clips along the entire gable end, which look horrible. How do we hide them? I’ve seen...

It’s connected to a steel post

There was a bit of a miscommunication between our builder and the architect for our extension, where the builder has put the RSJs flush with ceiling, leaving the bottom of the gable roof below the top of the steel. The steel will be covered by tiles and flashing, but I’m concerned about...

Thanks. That’s helpful. What would be best practice for parapet wall? They have installed some sort of flexible membrane above roof on one side. The rest of parapet doesn’t have anything yet. Original plan was for standing seam roof and parapet cap, but have changed to tile roof due to cost. I...

The render is some sort of pebble dash-ish stuff. The main roof soffit overhangs ~30cm. Would cavity trays be a problem so close to windows?

Hi all, We are having a single story gable extension added to the back of our 1950’s house. There are two steel beams supporting the new openings between old and new. The old house has a cavity wall, and walls are rendered with painted pebble-dash type render. I’ve read the for flat roof...