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I have never heard of an inspector wanting paperwork for a padstone. He’ll give it a tap and feel good vibes from your top notch installation, give you the thumbs up and crack on with his day.

Ah sorry I missed that nugget. I see the problem - that’s frustrating. I have thought about this and looked at your pic and googled the design specs and even found a pic on Samsungs website of your fridge sticking out from a set of units like this and it’s looks ok. Seems you could just do...

In direct answer to your question. I would say this does not look ok. Not trying to state obvious but presume nothing in the way back there stopping it from bumping back the extra few cms? Like any plumbing pipes etc that could be rerouted. Seems strange that a fridge freezer would be...

The damp maybe moisture in the air condensing at the mystery 30mm hole where your warm house air was meeting you colder air under floor or something. Anyways - you don’t have a problem here. No membranes required in my view it won’t do anything. Insulate the space between the joints and...

Yeh don’t worry about all this imperial / metric stuff. Imagine your house was an old house built from stone of all shapes and sizes you would still need to set your pads in amongst the irregular stonework. The core principle is to ensure your pad meets his spec to a minimum. It’s ok to make...

I believe you are over thinking this one. Just screw that ply up any way that keeps wastage to a min. Add extra pillars if needed to help connect two boards together. Don’t skimp on the ply quality though. Do use marine ply! Ordinary ply will be delaminating after just one light rain shower...

It’s a suspended timber floor spanning across the old external wall into the extension. If the joists are not damp then damp patch on your chipboard is completely unconnected to the damp you feel from the soil area. You sure there is any correlation at all?

Relax - don’t panic. It will be fine. If you had the competence to do the changes in the first place you have the competence to reinstate previous or enhance/strengthen new arrangements if required. 1. Without wishing to be rude to any surveyor - there is a chance they might not even notice...

A padstone is just a larger structurally important block of concrete designed to better distribute the weight of a beam. You don’t need to buy an official size - there is no such thing really. You could shutter out the area you need to meet his specs with some ply and pour in your own concrete...

Certainly the best you can do here is helical bars and fill/replace missing bricks and repoint it. Some might say helical bars not necessary or would prob add little value. But at 1800 house prob won’t have foundations so these brick walls can be prone to movement/cracking so I would be...

Self levelling is probably right approach. You can get external grade products for patio etc and if it is going to be poured over the rough concrete slab it will have something solid to cling to and will be bulletproof against those bouncing balls! You could even paint the free throw markings...

Maybe the hive support team don’t know what TPI stands for? Neither do I?

These days most boards that are supplied are P5 and there is prob not much cost difference however your installer is right so advise you just don’t need moisture resistant boards up in an attic. It’s just an unnecessary over spec. the joists rotting thing with P5 is a lot of scaremongering tosh...

Breathtaking workmanship. They should be ashamed. One wonders what other parts of the job they applied the same botched ‘don’t give a sh*t’ approach to. Anyways hopefully it is all working etc as it’s stands and I fully understand that you just needed to see the back of the cowboys so you can...

I’m not buying the condensation hypothesis. It’s just not adding up. The faint damp smell, the blown plaster and the sheer volume of moisture that seems to be collecting all in a property where you have a new dpc, new plaster to brick, the cavity wall has been upgraded - it’s is all good...

It depends on how the wall is finished below the render in other parts of the house. You would want to achieve an in keeping finish. If rest of house is bricks then you should probably do it here too. Dock the wages of the project manager to pay for it! It was careless for no one to notice...

Forgive me for not directly answering your question but what you are trying to do around wrapping the tub in rockwool etc is mad and will not add any value to your set up or prevent heat loss to any noticeable or cost saving degree. sorry to be a nay sayer to your plans but it’s pointless and...

Any other solution aside from taking those rads off the wall while you panel behind would constitute a botched job. Only a 10 min job to whip a couple rads off and it will make your panelling work much easier.

Forget trying to apply modern building regs about gutter angles and flow rates to a row of 150 year old terraces. It would appear the gutter angle has been successfully helping water flow off the roof for 150 years. And now you have a hump created by your contractor which is now causing the...

Top notch advice. That’s why they pay him the big bucks.