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Thanks for all the responses guys. I'm not planning on starting any work on the extension until april next year so i suppose if i need to get the water company or building control involved i have plenty of time and the building plans i have drawn for the the extension work would include the...

Great thanks for the response. Yes I suppose you are correct that i already have two windows ! I had thought about under floor heating but I already have a concrete floor so the only option would be electric which I don't want, so I will have to use either flat vertical rads or those kitchen...

Thanks for the replies guys (quickly!!!!). The sewer pipe (80yrs old) already runs along my alley way next to the existing side of the house. My extension will take up some spare area near the rear of the house but running inline with the rest of the side of the house. So after the work no part...

Hi there, I'm looking at extending a kitchen which will mean having a flat roof out back by about 8ft running approx 20ft across and then another 20ft along the side. The architect has mentioned fitting one or two roof light to get some light in to the room. This seems like a good idea but I'm...

Hi there, I live in a detached house and I'm planning on extending my kitchen out the side of the house nearer my alley way. Up along the alley way runs a shared waste pipe that is connected to my house and next door only and these connections can be seen under the man hole cover at the end of...

Haha my typing and spelling has been terrible all day.

Yeah thats what I was thinking, thanks for the reply. I'm more unsure about if I put plans in to the council for a kitchen extension which will require the current drain pipe and where it feeds in to the foul pipe to be move if they will demand that the drainage water now needs to go in a soak...

Hi there, I bought a 1930s house a while ago which has a sewer pipe running to the road and one of the rainwater pipes off the rear of the property runs in to this. Another rainwater pipe on the other side of the property runs in to a pipe that goes down the rear garden, a camera didn't confirm...

Yeah doesn't seem to get bigger or smaller now, not a clue what it is.

Yeah I removed hearth so it now vents under the suspended floor.

Not cheap. £500 but a fair bit of work and I had camera down all other pipes out of the house trying to track down other issues and where pipes run.

Hi, I've had a chimney hole filled in and the breast re-skimmed with pva and a rubber mesh underneath for strength. The old plaster was cracked and un-even. Anyway my question is that there is a small patch on the plaster that after two weeks still looks damp but to be honest I've had a low...

Hi just an update, the gulley was cracked so I had a plastic one fitted to replace it, problem now resolved.

Thanks for the replies. All useful stuff. As a first step I'm going to divert the down pipe as a short term measure over my flower bed, 6M away from the house. I'm only doing this because I'm half way through sorted out some dry rot in the floor of the house (not related to this leak) and then...

Hi, There are rain water runoff pipe entries at the corners at the back of my house. Whilst I had the floor up in the back lounge I noticed that some water was getting in when raining. I have tested with a hose and the problem seems to be caused by water entering one of the rain water pipes. If...

Hi yes the only reason for the T&G is because that is what the rest of the rooms have and I'll be patching about 8ft by 5ft of floor. Good tip about the underlay :)

Ah thanks for that. It would be a damn sight clearer if they advertised the real sizes then online searching would be easier. Can't seem to find anyone who does actual 6x1 inch T&G floorboards. I would have thought there must be a fair call for them for people with older houses. I suppose one...

Hi, I need some need T&G floorboard for a 1930's house, it currently has 5"x1" T&G boards. I look on various timer yard sites and they have boards of 150mmx25mm which is close enough, however they then state a 'Coverage' size which is usually something like 137mmx20mm. Now I can kind of...

Sorry meant to update. I've made a bit of progress, hearth dug out and gone down a foot or so, me and the old man have put new joists in and now put new floor boards over the hole. I've stripped the chimney of paper and I'm currently trying to find a plasterer who can take a look at it and sort...

The hearth is now out and I need to add two new joists to bridge the gap. There was actually no moisture at all in the earth and rubble under the concrete. There were signs of water ingress in the past via the front edge of the chimney but I suspect this has long been fix. So I suspect the...