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1. Are there any damp issues? 2. Trouble with boarding out, altho it would well do the job, it can create quite a bit of detailing and re-fixing, and, for DIY'ers, it can cause further conundrums regarding fixing units etc. 3. Good on you mate for having a go, thats a great attitude, if...

1. As has been said above: 2. hack off the degraded plaster and remove the skirtings(examine the skirt backs). Render 4-1-1 in S&L&C or 3-1 S&L. 3. Is it a solid or cavity wall? Solid or suspended floor? 4. All this and much more if you research these issue on the Building forum.

1. post more pics showing the whole of that propped area. And of the area below esp. the old door head. And back down the loft showing the steel purlin. A view of the new timber lintel would perhaps help. 2. On the face of it, thats a rough job which appears to have destabilised the apex...

1. Please dont apologise, there are no stupid questions. 2. Perhaps this should have been posted in the plumbing forum. 3. Does your cistern stand-off the wall? I assume that the WC has not yet been plumbed-in? 4. If you are tight to the wall, say with a few mm gap, then mark the wall thro...

1. The head height is also a "for furniture" height. 2. Measure down from the"bottom" of that wall panel over the stairs - from where the vertical goes horizontal - and report back the drop to the nosing line of your treads. I very much doubt that it will be 10ft. 3. If you'r certain that it's...

I cant see that working unless you knocked off the render and pebble-dash. You could do it over a smooth faced render but not over the irregular stone unless some new technique is on offer. I assume that you are talking about insulated silicone render? What exactly did the contractor...

Yes, given the appropriate, above conditions.

RonnieRaygun, I agree, and might mention a sometimes practice of carpenters in the USA. They will often fix the high side only of herring-bone strutting leaving the other side free until just before boarding over the ceilings, or the house is dried-in. That way the floor can take whatever...

I prefaced my post with a For What It's Worth ( FWIW ), i didn't make any claim for the information except that it's an interesting, different view of the subject. At no stage did i say that i relied on the studies, nor did i encourage others to rely on them, I merely presented them. It's a...

I presume that you mean a fillet of S&C instead of caulking. Yes, the same mix will do. Although, if the fillet will come away easy perhaps remove the S&C, clean it up and caulk the join between frame and brickwork.

Well i can, to the best of my ability, answer your queries, but in the final analysis you will have to get a jobbing roofer or builder to rearrange some tiles and guttering, and fit some lead flashing at the bottom of the hip area, ie the corner of the roof. 1. the verge is the roof edge bit...

As i i indicated by using the plural "studies" there's been more than one study - several over a period, by different institutions. In recent years, Fine Homebuilding and Journal of Light Construction both had articles discussing such studies. The claim referred to is not mine as any...

FWIW: In the USA, the home, of course, of timber framing, studies have shown that blocking or strutting is not necessary in joisting for sway, squeaking or structural integrity - it's claimed that 3/4" or 1" sub-floor will do the trick. Framing contractors know this but it's a rare site where...

noseall, glad to hear that, esp. the notion of standing inside it - that's obviously well useful.

1. Is this a bungalow? 2. The lintel arrangement you describe seems adequate but perhaps some pics would help. 3. Pics would definitely help with the flimsy blockwork detailing, i cant visualise where you mean.

Yeah noseall, it's a handy tool, but given the imbeciles that drift thro the building trades; my two cents is that it's too flimsy - likewise the laser, a brilliant device if kept accurate.

1. Are you saying OP that you split the shared stack above the roofline? 2. Back in the day of Housing Grant Aided Work, and no mention of PWR's, chimney breasts were often fully, or partially, stripped from bottom to loft, including "shared " party wall c/b's. I've never heard of a...

FWIW: why not cut a 1200mm x 1200mm corner from a sheet of 22mm ply, jig out two weight reducing cut-outs from the field, and you have a permanent perfect right angle if required.

1. The frame is under the interior brickwork. The outer head has a soldier course supporting it - the soldiers have dropped slightly, but thats common. 2. The sill has a pressure crack from the weight of the right hand, thin column of returning brickwork between frames. 3. Peering thro...

1. joe is on to something: the detailing at the short piece of verge is wrong . 2. There's no supporting and projecting cement fillet, and the tile dont project out far enough off the wall face, esp. with the new remedial work. 3. Notice the return end of the gutter is too long, is bent out...