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Maybe he's a bit Dence?

Double glazing salesmen will give you any old bunny.

You can get metal roofing sheets with a 'furry' underside, this helps to resist condensation, a few vents will help as well. Ask your council if they have an asbestos disposal service, in London boroughs, they will collect a certain amount free of charge. You have to bag and tape it up...

Seems I was right!

Still looks a bit tight, although the photo isn't the best. Sort the cladding first, the roof can be remedied if need be, but let's get the cladding sorted first. Answer, take it off and redo it. Not essential, but add breather membrane if you can, but with the battens it might bring the...

*Adopts Lynn Faulds Wood voice* This toy could potentially injure a small child.

He's useful to Farage, he's the pied piper, luring the real loonies away from Reform.

Look at the last picture, f all overhang, this is his second mistake. I'd be extending that even if the shiplap was ok.

Yes, I'm sticking with petrol for now, battery operated isn't for me.

Can we have a paid 'only adults' version of the site? Edit: I now realise that sounds a bit mucky!

If it were my house, I'd err on the side of caution. We get seasonal movement cracks on one of our walls, whether or not that's related to a previous owner installing a window 3 inches from an external corner can't be proven.

Then best to run it by the council beforehand.

The second one. No one will be bothered about a small shed, unless you are running a lathe all day long!

It's very very bad.

Go for it, you might get away with it. But be mindful that nobody on here has yet suggested that this is the best way to proceed.

If you avoid digging any big holes and clad it in something other than wood or uPVC, you don't need regs, it's just a shed. Timber framed would probably cost more in materials and time than the blocks alone, but when you factor in digging foundations and pouring concrete, it might start to...

The other option is to abandon the blocks idea, just build a couple of courses of brick off the slab, and put up a timber framed shed, you could use metal cladding sheets or fibre cement cladding to meet the 'substantially non-combustible' rule, insulate between the studwork for bonus thermal...

Dig a test pit at the edge of the slab and see what's what. You could save some digging by doing a pad and beam foundation, but you'll still have to dig holes for the pads, then the expense of steel beams, rebar or massive concrete lintels. When you come full circle you'll probably decide that...

Do you want to risk having to rebuild it?

You may have undermined the house! Older houses didn't always have a 'proper' foundation.