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Hi, got a GRP flatroof with a few flaky patches of the topcoat. Is it easy to re-coat in a TopCoat,diy? What prep do I need to do? Clean off the birdshit and rub down the flaky bits? Anything else? Also regarding the weather, it's pretty hot at the moment ... when's the best time to do it ...

DPC is total b******* apparently, here is the UK history of DPCs: https://1stassociated.co.uk/damp-proof-olderproperties.asp

Perhaps you know or can find out what their solution to damp is?

thanks

No it's a victorian conversion so that pipe would run along the ceiling of a bedroom before it reaches the outside wall. I just don't know what to expect if the pipe is put in there attached to the wall (looking at a low profile rectangular section one) ... and a mdf box put over it, is it...

Was looking at attaching a rectangular section duct to a bathroom extractor about 3m to get it to an external wall. Is it likely it will make noise fluting or anything? Any good solutions like rubber sleeve or inserting rubber sections to break it up? Anyone ever done anything like this? Yes it...

They are locked the wheel protrudes either side of the rail. Well call be crazy but the need for a water tight seal does not inviolate the need for horizontal locking even if the building is heavy, but I have not studied the types of failures that occur ... it seems that sometimes the do occur...

Hi .. a friend is looking at buying a place but I noticed that out back the neighbours dormer is sloping down at a serious angle? Is this structural failure or something? Or is this normal? Thanks for any help

Yes 100 tonnes vertical, but horizontally the upper structure has little resistance, like with Earthquakes. I am not a builder but I am surprised there isn't a different solution, like using special lapping bricks over the DPC at intervals (using the cavity in cavity walls) with the DPC wrapping...

Thanks ... but masonry to plastic is not a good bond, it's not like plastic to plastic or mortar to mortar. Is there no technique to interlock the DPC through alternate bricks or courses so that there is a continuous concrete bond interwoven in it? Couldn't you just heave on the brick structure...

Hi, I am not a builder just curious. I often saw that the foundations of a house have a DPC membrane that is put above the foundation courses and the above ground structure. My questions is ... don't the bricks above slip off the DPC? Are the bricks above tied to the bricks below or is it safe...

Yeah so in this video a guy easily removes a traditional felt roof with a spade .. .gaining access to the screw heads and you can do what you like with no damage to the timbers right. What the hell will you do with a GRP roof? I think you are screwed. Perhaps that's why the builders used...

Don't care about them ... just interested in general if somebody knows how to remove such a roof. Unless you are the 1 in a million person who has taken care to mark on the surface the location of the screwheads and covered them so they have no resin on them ... probably 1 person in the history...

My neighbours replaced their normal asphalt roof with Fibreglass sounded very fancy until I saw two builders screw down some chipboard panels and with a roller roll on the resin etc... in a few hours ... then I realised how unskilled and moronic these new materials are. I would criticize them...

Just put some Thermawrap around the boiler condensing pipe ... what kind of paint should I put on it? Don't want the birds to peck on it? Weathershield masonry or something else? Cheers

Can anyone recommend a company for spring roller blinds made to measure? Cheers

Cheers I think you are right, I can put them in the front part of the top sash .... will have a look at the cellular blinds as well. Thanks

I need to make a roller blind 100cm wide, with 150cm drop but very very thin, because it's behind the old fashioned curtain. What's my best option? Should I go and find a tube of stainless steel from a merchant and fix on some ends ? Any ideas? I have about 3cm ish for the entire thickness...

Hi every time I switch energy suppliers they don't have my flat listed on the database and they end up taking over my neighbours meters ... and it's a goddam hassle to get them to sort it every time. The house number usually appears on their databases without my flat number ... so it's a...

Thanks guys actually no commas in that part of the text ... anyway the floor void is mine, so I'll get them to run a pipe out under it which I'm sure they will love at the top of the master bedroom wall, but needs must. Cheers