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Yes, definitely not lichen or staining of any kind. You can see where the surface coating has flaked off.

You certainly need to make a request of the roofer. Basically to never venture within a mile of your property ever again. What a horrible sight. You need to get an actual roofer to rip all that up and do the job properly.

When I had the roof done I paid after completion, which included about £3k materials and scaffolding. But when I had the kitchens and bathroom done I paid upfront for all goods, about a month prior to delivery. Fitting was after completion. The boiler and central heating system was 10% deposit...

Don't see them much any more. Just like real coppers.

It's an AI spambot.

I had mine done last month. Shellcast, but equally difficult. You can't just use a brush. Also, whilst it might help you sell the house, it's not going to last more than a few years. May not even last one. You can rent a spray gun. I'd recommend that. A fifty quid gun won't work. But you don't...

Likely a bird is building its nest in your chimney, and the sound you hear is dislodged mortar from its nest-based activities. I had this in my previous house, for a few weeks every year, normally between 7am and 9am.

Lucky it didn't rain before he got the tiles on. When mine was done a few months back we got 36mm of rain in 5 hours with 40mph winds - there wasn't a tile on the roof, just membrane.

I'm just getting a fan installed in the gable end with a 150mm hole and a vent on the outside. Controlled by a Wifi adapter so I don't need to go up there to change the settings.

Only 40C? Mine's that at night. I'm having an thermostatic extractor fan fitted tomorrow, just so it's possible to go up there without dying.

That's the roofing equivalent of Tom Cruise's shoes.

If mine was, then so is yours.

Except I didn't. I commented one hour after the previous post, which appeared earlier today and was deleted after I commented on it. I edited mine to reflect that, as you can see.

ChatGPT enters the, um, chat. ...now it's been deleted and my comments looks weird.

If it's particularly stubborn he could still be struggling.

It depends on the temperature difference. If it's small, air will flow upwards for a time and the house will cool. If it's large, air will flow both ways and the house will heat up. I intend to fit an extractor fan in the loft to dispel the nuclear reactor levels of heat we get on hot days.

I lifted my two with a 10in Stanley claw bar to create a gap big enough for a thin utility bar. I wish I hadn't, it's horrible down there.

Mine was certainly improved by removing the chimney and all those other horrible protrusions surrounded by manky leadwork and plastic. But I imagine if you have a more rustic house a chimney is more of a feature.

I can't see any cracks, just a few places where the pointing has crumbled away. That said, chimneys can be a pain - not from falling down, there's no possibility of it doing that short of a tornado strike - but from leaks and damp and the general maintenance they require. I had mine taken off...

Holy balls. Worse than useless.