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1. Will keep that in mind. Is it a silly idea to remove soil from the front garden so that it is then much lower than the airbricks as required - but it would also be below sidewalk level 2. Copy that, see above 3. You mean the garden party wall between ourselves and neighbours I believe? Why...

Here is the long awaited diagram. Also here is a view of the outside, with 2 of the 3 airbricks and the gutter in the corner. JohnD a leak has not been ruled out, still need to go round the neighbour's house to check what's happening at her end, but she is not home H2Gizmo I am starting...

bobasd, we can do the repair work ourselves and will do. However, my main source of concern is understanding where all this damp/wetness is coming from. I don't want to make everything nice, and then find myself a square one in 10 years because we haven't tackled the root cause. Alarm CO works...

As you can see from this first picture, we are having a massive infiltration problem around the chimney breast. To give some general information, we are at the ground floor of a two storey Victorian house. To the right of the picture there is the external wall. We have been living in the...

Sure it is a small frame, which means both there are still a lot of bricks where the weight of the house can be transferred down and the uPVC frame will be relatively rigid because it is small. So probably your house won't fall down. But I would personally always have a lintel installed. Also...

No, not to my knowledge, why do you think so?

Hi all, we have had roof leaks now for a very long time; the roof is flat, bitumen. The leaks manifest when it rains hard and around the boiler vent; there is actually a hole in the ceiling where potentially there was a tumble drier exhaust and the water drips in the room from here; the water...

Hi all, thought Iit was going to be a real simple job, but the more I start reading about it, the more complex it is becoming! What we need to do is nice and simple (or should be), dry lining the reveals (sides) of a new patio door we have installed. Right now it is bare (and broken) bricks...

our bathroom is finally almost complete, simply our bathtub just lacks a very useful shower screen. Our builders built a stud wall, filled with rock wool and boarded with plasterboard, further there is tiles around the bath area. The shower screen hinges will be positioned on the tiles and I am...

assuming you already have all the builders, plumbers and sparkies all geared up to start when you decide, by the time you have the SE do the drawings (and in our case he came twice), submit to BC, start the work, you can expect for a good two months to have passed already. If you are not in the...

I would also think inadequate footings. And let's remind each other, anyway 3/4 of the UK soil is cohesive (not going to use the S word here)

Thank you all for the advises! It's been quite some time, but I thought to reply how I have made it, I hate it when I read people posting about their problems and never commenting back with the solution! Firstly, a couple explanation: they are normal floorboards (not T&G), the word that I pick...

Hey all We've done the floors a couple of weeks ago but there's a bit I'm struggling with. Essentially one floorboard is very swollen up but alas it's swollen up where the architrave sits on it. Normally you would just plane it, but this floorboard being so close to the wall I cannot really...

As the big building job we are carrying out is approaching the end, the builders had two plasterers round to plaster the big bedroom (original wall and boarded up ceiling). The property is end of year 1800. I am very pleased with the walls however I cannot say the same with the ceiling. When...

just to conclude this story, insulation was stacked thinner panels due to supply issues, which in hindsight makes sense, on all the building sites they are mentioning to phone them to check for availability of any insulation board product. The only thing that annoyed me is that they haven't been...

Hi KenGMac thank you for your reply. That is what I'd normally do, but unfortunately I can expect Saturday mornings Kingspan is shut and he is going to lay the insulation first thing tomorrow, as the rubber man is coming sometime in the morning! :eek:

Hi all, a quick opinion would be appreciated, it is our first (re)build and obviously I have a lot to learn and potentially not everything which looks odd is an issue (this is my behaviour by default! :P ) Came back home to find a bunch of 45mm Kingspan TW50 boards, which will be presumably...

bobasd, do you mind quickly commenting on a couple only of odd things? I don't see the option of calling someone competent over mainly because of three or four annoying reasons: . the work has progressed . the work has already been delayed quite much more than expected so wouldn't like to hold...

That is an interesting point, I am wondering why in all the diagrams the VCL is never under the joists though? Had a look but their drawings don't seem to answer my doubts The roof has been re-done from scratch and changed from pitched to flat and actually my original question can be regarded...

Unfortunately we are already amidst our renovation job, which includes also the redoing of a flat roof and upgrading it to a warm roof and I have a question regarding the insulation of the fascia, I find shocking that there isn't really much material on the web about it! The new joists have been...