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If the work costs more than £250 (which it will) then you should be given consultation and the opportunity to nominate your own choice of contractor for a quote. There is a defined process and time periods. If your landlord does not follow this, then you may not have to pay your share.

What's the actual complaint? Who placed the foundations? Where are the centres of the foundation trenches? If the foundations were set out for the original dimensions, then the walls must be built off centre? If the foundations were not set out correctly and the walls are centred, then you...

Cold air at this time of year can have over 80% moisture. The slightly warmer cold air in the loft meeting the cold felt/membrane cooled by the colder air outside is an almost guarantee of some condensation occurring. The ventilation is bringing in humid air Ventilation will not stop...

It's a timber shed. Do whatever is easiest, don't get bogged down in theoretical detailing that will make no difference in this situation.

I was just confirming your guesses :p

Have a look at gravel binders

Lines of drips tend to be from condensation

A bit of moss

Those are non-standard and not bracing the trusses in any way

Bring the roof out, square it off and form a verge.

Party walls as defined by the PWA are not necessarily party walls as defined by any other document or common parlance. House deeds have nothing to do with anything other than the Law of Property.

How hard is the mortar? Will a hand saw cut it, or a block saw with tungsten teeth? Or a masonry blade in a reciprocating saw.

Those drawings are baffling. They look like an impossible flat/pitched roof Escher drawing. That's a poxy design where no thought has been given to building it or what it looks like. The best option is trying to fit a stop end outlet on the high gutter, but even so you've got the situation of...

No. Support really needs to be on the sides. You can't put angle iron on top of a floor joist like that anyway!

God knows :rolleyes:

Not for lintels

It's OK to do, but it's not water resisting or preventing. Check the external pointing all the way up to the roof or window cill above if water is coming in through a solid wall. An external wall water repellant may be an option. In some cases, a cavity tray is required even when there is...

What does this damp patch look like and location - wall or ceiling? Is the wall below dry lined or wet plastered? Damp from a wall with no cavity trays is often different to damp from a roof abutment leak.

Damp by a chimney is commonly related to the chimney or flue. Check the verge tiles, the flashing, the stack pointing and flaunching (cement mix around the pots) and the pots. The spread of that stain would imply damp coming down centrally from the stack or the roof apex

Because in the UK it was not used in that way. Not used in plaster. Invariably, all councils used similar specifications and that's a standard out house and that looks like a standard [concrete? ] roof with steel lath to support the plaster. If you can see hairs then typically it would be lime...