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I'm planning on laying on solid wood parquet flooring in our hall. The current floorboards are not in great condition so, after doing some reading, I decided to lay 12mm ply to remove any irregularities etc and glue down solid wood. Now I've come to lay it I'm concerned about the larger scale...

Thanks for the advice, and confirming my gut feeling I probably shouldn't touch the thing. I'll get someone in. At least a bit of oil in the bearings has made it a nonemergency and I can get some quotes and shop around a bit. And yeah, slip of the tongue\keyboard. I know its carbon monoxide...

The boiler fan is on the way out. The wife lost central heating/hot water today and panicked and rang in a plumber, who diagnosed a dead fan. Quoted £300 to fix, along with a bit of a dodgy refilling/pressure filler (still works okay though, and had always been a bit slow). £180 for parts, £120...

Thanks, that's a good solution.

Worth getting it tested, our neighbors roof looked almost identical and overlaps our garage, I inquired and they had a sample taken and it came back negative, it was just an old alternative fiber cement. Treat it like it is, until you send a sample off and get confirmation though.

Hi, I'm re-roofing the garage and increasing the existing slope to a 5 degree pitch. I'll probably have to knock off the top layer of blocks and build up the new gable structure. I'm hoping to embed the joists in the wall, but I'm not sure the best way of building this 5 degree slope and...

Yeah, I've been having a look and its something I can do and take to the local tip. I'd have to shave the beard off for a mask though, damn. Problem is... it's not actually my roof. Most of it is on someone eases land. I'd have to start taking up whole sheets and significant parts of their...

I think the images are really huge, so it's made the text tiny! I'll try fix it (edit, think I have?) So it's definitely asbestos. Damn. Really throws a scanner in the works. The annoying thing is its not even my roof! Not sure what I can do about it. The local tip accepts small...

Just about to order some box steel to reroof our garage and I went up to take some last min measurements and noticed that the neighbours garage roof actually extends a few inches over ours. The problem is I was going to add a few blocks into the wall in order to raise the rafters and...

Thanks, makes sense. Searching "Cold roofs" shows a lot of info, cheers

Not sure I understand. Your saying the warm air with vapor is going to go through the insulation, and OSB, and condense on the steel? So it needs some kind of water proof barrier (vapor barrier like this: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Green-Polythene-Vapour-Barrier-2-5x20m/p/153230) to...

I think I might, probably the best solution.

Hi, I've decided to replace the existing sagging bitumen sheeting mounted on OBS3 and replace with box profile steel. Would this arrangement be adequate for reducing the condensation on the steel? I'd be using the existing roof board & rafters, basically just attaching 2x2s to raise...

There's not too much sag, no, I think most of the issues is with the length-wise slope being too shallow and the joists aren't quite lined up perfectly causing a sag on the long edge rather than the short edge. I'll stick to that and keep it simple. Thanks.

Pictures for context: Showing beam repair: outside showing pooling (last year)

Sorry for the bad wording. Garage is not new, I was trying to say I'm putting a new roof on. Should have said I'm replacing an existing roof. I'm trying to work out how much of the old roof I can actually use (rafters etc). It's already built, can't remember what time, maybe in the 80s? The...

Thanks. You think the existing 150x50 joists are sturdy enough? I ask because every data-table I read on roof spans says they should reach less than 3m (e.g. here http://www.home-extension.co.uk/tech2.html) No need for the steel

That's a slope of 1:45 which should be okay. What surface are you planning? I'd say add some more slope if it's anything that could sag like corrugated sheeting material.

I have a garage that's about 4.5m by 7m. It's currently leaking like a sieve. It has 50 by 150 beams at varying distances of 550 - 600 spacing that span the 4.5 m. That's covered with OBS, which has corrugated bitumen sheeting length-wise atop that. On initial inspection, it all looked...

That's what I'm looking for, would it be okay to run both appliances at the same time with this?