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We have just had an aerial cable put in and you can see the guy's done a bit of damage to the brickwork and mortar and decided to fill with a bad matching brown filler/silicone. What would be best product to cover this brown gunk to improve aesthetics? thanks

Here's how roofer eventually finished corner. IMHO not exactly a work of art

Thanks the bit that vothers me the most is the lowest arrow. When rain hits the top of that brick where does it go. Into the cavity wall, onto the bottom of the roof beams

Can anyone suggest how this corner should be finished to ensure water tightness? I know the 'new' white corner is cracked but even the bottom arrow exposes a weak point i think. I know the gap between bottom of fascia and brickwork needs sealing. There's a gap along whole wall. Maybe a pvc...

We did try on 1 but the radiators didn't heat up, 2 is our perfect setting. my question was more about how boilers that contain their own modulating pumps will operate, we don't have one yet, will they go up to a level 3 equivalent of our current pump and therefore get noisy?

We currently have a grundfos 3 speed pump on our heating system. We have to set it to '2' as on its highest setting we get noise, higher pitched whinning, in the house, maybe from pipes. If newer boilers have modulating pumps are we likely to get intermittent noise as pump runs on its maximum...

Our structural engineer isn't really being very helpful about this, he says ask architect who's too busy. Neither is building control. What would really help us is if we were allowed to build a new wall with a smaller cavity, 50mm, and then perhaps add 50mm insulation on inside of new...

Is it possible for the end of the new wall to have no cavity, so it is solid masonary? Then a steel would sit across old wall blocks and onto new wall blocks, no need for the padstones in this orientation.

I think I can deduce from the pictures I posted of someone else's project that these would cause thermal bridging problems.

Thanks. It's flat roof single storey room with similar extension attached. No wall above to support. The perpendicular steel above this proposed lintel/steel bridges a 4m gap, flat roof through web. So a 30cmx30cm pier on corner should be enough? I've since found these pictures which do have a...

Hi we're building a single storey extension. We ideally want to put a steel across 2 walls of different thickness. one is the old part of the house 25 cm thick, other is a new extension 30 cm thick. SE says this is tricky due to the different width of walls. I've sent him the idea in the...

Does anyone have an opinion as to how modern flush up Windows compared to lipped upvc casement windows when it comes to sound insulation and weatherproofing. I'm particularly interested in Eurocell's modus range because they appear to have optional extra gaskets. Thanks

Was it building control who insisted on piles and ground beams? I have previously investigated this but the cost seems quite high about 15K for our project.

Yeah, I see Essex soil, mostly clayey, quite different to dorset. Hopefully we may get away with standard depth of 1m ish.

We're proposing foundations for an extension about 2.5 meters from a mature Apple tree 4m high. I've been using the labc foundation depth calculator but realise this is designed mostly for cohesive soils i.e. Clay. Our soil is actually Sandy/gravel, quite good soil. so I was wondering what...