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OP, Maybe the Blackjack business will work - maybe not? Thing is, if it doesn't work you will then have three different types of roofing materials on your roof - with a final smearing of Blackjack. The roof needs (if you can get one) an experienced flat roofer to examine it - whoever built it...

A Stressed concrete lintel will easily span 1500mm. But there are other factors to be taken into account besides span? There are also various kinds of lintels that might be more suitable for your circumstances - why not call Mfr's?

OP, fwiw: Dig back behind the bit of whatever it is - by digging behind you will find if it is a piece of pipe, a connected pipe, or something else that got buried in a bit of ground fill.

OP, to find out if the floor was a previous suspended floor, simply go outside that room, and search at its exterior wall surface for air bricks?

J&B, You noticed a "mixture of asphalt and ballast"on the OP's floor. This, of course, is commonly known as Tarmac & has been mentioned on here by others and myself as occasionally composing residential floors. The fool trolls on here were almost psychotic with excitement in their ignorance...

OP, Its glaringly obvious why the panels wont work on your project - dont involve yourself with something that is expensive & unsuitable.

OP, Ignore, in fact run a mile from, user name bennymultifinish. Most everything he has said is wrong. He knows nothing about these matters. In a word he's not only ignorant but obliviously ignorant of the foolish stuff he pretends to know. All the plaster has to come off - no matter what. His...

OP, The above self sticking panels wont work with your proposals. Neither will they work if a bit of broken masonry or a rock in the backfill pierces the skins, and allows moisture penetration.

OP, you have an external chimney breast, & its very possible that chemicals from the flues in that chimney breast were and are penetrating what most probably is a single brick flue wall. Gypsum plaster was used on the bedroom walls - bad plasterer. All flues will need sweeping and the stack...

Next floors whether loft or first floor or any woodwork will burn - and for you to deny that wood burns is nonsense. To deny the Regs where fire is concerned is gross nonsense - and maybe a little stupidity. Does the idea of "sand and lime on brick" surprise you or even excite you? Do you...

Next floors whether loft or first floor or any woodwork will burn - and for you to deny that wood burns is nonsense. To deny the Regs where fire is concerned is gross nonsense - and maybe a little stupidity. Does the idea of "sand and lime on brick" surprise you or even excite you? Do you...

38mm best but 32mm will do - however, if you are intending to use large tiles then things change. aamoi, is your proposal to fix the p/b's around a shower or bath ie. wet walls? If not & you are using backerboard on the wet walls then what size screws will you use with the backerboard?

Do you have any ideas on the following: Can you explain this proposed retaining wall - where exactly will it be located, and to what height? Have you considered any affect the wall depth might have on the foundation of the lean-to? Where will the channel drain to - how will it discharge. At...

I cant open up your pics to see whats going on?

OP, knock off back to brick and re-render with a sand and lime render mix. dont use plasterboard or batten and board. batten and board, like D&D that has "venting", also provides a chute behind the boards for flame and esp smoke to shoot up to the next floor. why not post pics of the whole wall...

I will, no problem - but first show your authority. You were the one who made the Doolally reference. So sad. Dont you know that simply repeating whats just been said is not an argument - its the limited mental ability to copy. Oh I forgot - your never going to copy me again, wasn't that what...

And? So what? Thats not proof for what you say - show us an Authority who agrees with you? OP, Ignore such a panicky, & misleading circular attempt to justify a bad practice - it was bad in 2007 and its bad now.

OP, Presumably the render goes around the L/H corner flank wall, and goes further to the right - is the inside the parapet wall rendered? The parapet caps are not wide enough - the drip throat should be about 40mm from the wall. Maybe the weeps are from cavity trays in the wall? Is the chute...

"The bead just overlaps the lead and no more" - No it doesn't and it never has. The Bellcast stays above the lead chase - a clear gap should be seen.

A lintel has to be installed but, unless there's interior cracking, I dont think that there's any massive urgency - nothing is going to collapse. But the doors will eventually jam, & the glass may crack. Working from inside & outside, & using a tower, it would be simple to install a lintel...