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I never considered any problems with breathable felt, but a few years back my brother worked on a site of 30 odd houses, the majority having condensation problems in the loft. He fitted airbricks and soffit vents on these which did cure the problem. Since then a few people have told me about the...

I've done some work on a friends house, it's originally a cowshed dating from the 1700s. That's a single brick construction, with painted, roughcast render, and there's no sign of damp in there.

Indian stone is pretty uniform in thickness, just sort out your pattern and lay them as they come. As the stone is not all that thick you can keep the mortar bedding quite thin. I've found that joints of about 1/2in to 3/4in seem to suit Indian slab sizes, less cutting.

If the slabs are a different thickness, use dabs. Use soft sand on the laying mix and sharp for the jointing. Make sure there is enough mix under the slab so that when you bang it down the dabs spread into each other. When the slab is in place make sure all the edges are filled. Force muck...

I have layed a lot of stone patios, especially yorkstone. These can vary in width from 1in to 6ins and the easiest way is definately on dabs. The dabs have to be big enough that the slab has to be bashed down into place, this helps to fill the underside of the slab. What really holds the slabs...

On my last loft, couldn't use tri-iso but could use Thinsulux.

Comms After it's finished go around and say the builder wanted a test done, you'd forgotten all about it but better late than never. Should be interesting.

Comms I'm between Maidenhead and Reading. I'm pricing a job now, some building work and a rewire. They have two quotes for the rewire, £3500 and £7000, though the second one does include making good the chases.

Is this for a new kitchen going in? It's not possible to price something like this without a spec. but if it was just a straight forward job you could expect £1-2k. More if there are any complications to get over. In Berks at the moment, prices have come down, there are some very cheap...

My FinL has got a mole plough, he uses it with a tractor. It cuts a deep, narrow trench in which a pipe or cable gets laid. He uses it to lay water pipe on his farm. The bit of kit for pulling cables etc. underground, I've always known just as a mole.

This was an art gallery and the step was incoperated into the final design. It was only three sides as the rear wall was taken out. This method was a lot cheaper than under pinning and the basement was going to be left as just storage but the price was low enough to warrent the work being done...

Can't say I've heard of them. The job in Kensington was a one off, terrible place to work. Expensive to park, no skips, don't want to work there again.

I found it quite useful, my bills are always neatly folded.

Last year we done one of these, and it happened to be in Kensington. It was on the High St., full of galleries and antique shops. The cellar floor was lowered about 2ft. and we done it the way John has seen it done. Dug out in 1m strips to expose existing founds, we left the founds as was...

But would it be gratuitous violence or poetic justice

I've never had a knife pulled on me. If an ASBO type ever does I will break some of his bones. Would that be gratuitous violence or poetic justice.