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OP, Installing a vent is a simple, 30 min job. Roofers should provide pics or video of their work on stacks? Definitely dont start venting the damp spot on the party wall. I've already told you twice what to do - forget Zinger and similar.

OP, Thats a nice bit of carpentry, well done, but unfortunately its not the best solution. However, no drama its down so just carry on with finishing the floor. Where possible, you could fit ventilation grills at the side edges of the floor - google "floor strip venting". You dont need "25mm...

OP, google "polished wood edging" - you will find a variety of edgings & trims. But dont order yet. First remove the dry fix tiles and appliance, and then post a pic of the exposed sand & cement surface? Will the appliance be live or is it merely a decorative feature? OP, google...

OP, Thanks for the new pics. 1. Where the rear downstairs c/breast has been removed then do as I suggested above in post #8. 2.The rear bedroom c/breast contains two flues - both flues need venting: a centred vent might catch both flues if a feather brick can be dislodged? 3. Given the state of...

OP, Hygroscopic chemicals can appear on the decorated surface at any time of the year. Sand & cement or plasterboard are not sufficient & could cause further problems - the correct remedy is to hack off all the contaminated plaster back to brickwork & then render with a 3:1 sand & NH lime...

OP, The render should finish above the DPC - if it goes down & makes ground contact it can bridge the DPC. Why not use a pic to point out where the DPC is? So what you call "the gaps" is rough looking but if the render finishes above the DPC, & doesnt make ground contact then its fine. If it...

OP, When did you first notice staining on the party wall? A long shot but maybe a chimney breast was removed, and the black stuff you expose was the back wall of the old flue. The black stuff being the soot residue of historic solid fuel fires? The top brick courses of the chimney stack are...

Cal fornia - the magnitude of the man, not bad at all esp for a three times Darwin prize winner. Just saying but if you were in Cali fornia you would probably have got a pardon by now & been released?

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OP, From the gutter outlet the RH down pipe is running very flat but there are no signs of leakage from the down pipe. From the pics Its difficult to see what the arrangement is up there? The LH down pipe is also running pretty flat - no signs of leakage there either. The running outlet on the...

OP, The horizontal crack appears to follow a join between two plasterboards - from what you say about movement, & maybe some "missing" framing then perhaps it would be best to remove the top board - the board from the crack up - & investigate? Use your knife to cut into inside corners at...

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Poster 24, With respect: I know its a simple problem but you turned a simple problem into an argument which you lost & have continued to lose by your own excited words - what does "Cali" have to do with this? But you have been arguing, & are now debating with your excited drama & losing diversions.

OP, The dimensions would show if your existing lintel was suitable for the Mfr's recommended opening.

OP, Your balcony could be silently rotting away hidden from view in the concrete. Any re-bar could be rusting and swelling - cracks could be allowing moisture to enter the concrete - the concrete could have moved away from the wall? How is the balcony supported - by projecting joists or by the...

OP, If you already have the dimensions then what are they?

Poster #21, Your attempt to divert to the man making the argument, and not the argument itself means, of course, that you've lost the argument. Pay cheap - pay twice seems to be what you are saying.

OP, Before you go any further you would be best advised to select a burner and take the Mfr's installation dimensions from the burner's handbook. Then work to those dimensions. Come back here if you need a bit of advice?

Poster #19' I know you are a plumber from Potters Bar but the job is in Bradford, & without knowing the going rate in Bradford I would imagine its far less than in London. The very name, "sealing" that we have both agreed on suggests just that - the CT1 seals. But as for making a "waterproof...

Poster #16, "running a bead of silicone around the sink where it meets the work top" suggests to me where the rim of the sink is sealed from water from the bowl splashing up etc. The other silicone that we can see in pic #2, I call the fixing silicone. Which one do you mean? My point is that...