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My house is one of six in a terrace, but between mine (the 3rd) and the next door (the 4th) there is a one foot drop in height as the road slops downwards, so at roof level there is a one foot exposed piece of brickwork (see photograph) as the roof is one foot lower too. For a short time damp...

A builder came to look at damp between mine and my neighbour's Victorian houses recently - his pal hastily erected scaffolding to look for the damp. A crack was found in our chimney and he called Building Control in and then gave us a quote for a re-build of the chimney (£2,500). My neighbour...

Thanks for the replies. The chimney is use by next door who I share it with but not by me. There are no pots and caps atop the chimney. Cheers for the advise - I dread to think when the chimney was last rendered. The house was built in 1884 and my roof repaired about 1990 and it is good...

Cheers for that gents- things took a twist after I posted the original question, hence the need for another one!

Many thanks for that advice - most helpful.

Folks, Can someone give me an honest opinion of the severity of the crack in the chimney (photo attached) running between where the brickwork joins the render. To me it look like nothing too much ....... but I maybe wrong!Any ideas of how much it would cost and how long it would take to...

What powers do Building Control have? Or are they just an advisory body? Can they tag an address to show that it has had work done on it which can be picked up when a solicitor does their checks if the house in the process of being sold?

I recently got a roofer and to come and evaluate the cause of some damp coming through either the pointing/flashings on an exposed bit of roof between mine and my neighbour's Victorian terraced house - my neighbour's being a foot lower than mine in the terrace. I also called a painter colleague...

Thanks for the replies gents - I have lived here for ten years and never used the fireplace and have no plans too, but my neighbour does. So far I have been quoted three figures (none of the roofers seemed keen to get on the roof either to see whether there was pointing of flashing damage.... or...

Many thanks for that. I have learnt a lesson here - don't employ a roofer who asks for scaffolding to be erected before he gets on the roof!!! Just had a quote two minutes ago to repair the lead flashing down the join between the two properites, re-render the (possibly) offending chimney and...

In the bottom right hand corner I believe. One roofer who went up there may well be trying to get some work. You can see though that the rain makes it quite damp so if it DID need removing I was wondering whether it would need taking down to roof level and re-building and just an idea of the...

I have loaded a photo into an album on this site and must hope that it is visible by this link - if not can someone tell me in easy language how to do it - cheers. http://www.diynot.com/network/phil1963/albums/

Could anyone advise on the cost of getting a Victorian chimney stack on a two-floor old house (about 2 ft across by 7 foot high). It is apparently "cracked" (What does that mean???) and will need to be repaired ..... or are chimneys taken down to roof level and re-built? Access to the chimney is...

Am I being too harsh or expecting too much that a roofer gets up a ladder and has a look? Have Health and safety rules stopped roofers getting onto a roof via a ladder??

I live in the Home Counties and in a two-storey mid-terrace house. The house next door (on left) is two foot lower than mine so the wall at the top of my house on the side is higher than that house so exposed and sadly the brickwork has weathered, pointing gone or flashing gone ... anyway damp...

In my first floor bathroom I have a cold water storage tank in a cupboard about six foot off the floor and below that a wotsit tank for storing the heated water, which is nicely lagged. In the corner is a shower cubicle. The attic above was converted into another bedroom so the previous owners...

My house was built in 1884 and has chimneys in each room. The attic was converted into an extra bedroom and in each corner of the said room are the respective corners of the front and rear chimney stacks which have not been wall-papered over. Just to the left of one of these visible chimney...

Hope this is the right section for what is a menial question! Part of the felt on the roof of my garden shed blew/ripped off during the night. Enquiries with quite a few garden centres/roofing businesses etc. locally all reveal that they only sell new rolls of roofing felt in ten metre rolls...

Thanks for the above - most helpful. The thermostat is not a digital one and the boiler a new one which works very well. My worry is that the hallway can never be acceptably hot as due to heat rising it just disappears into the loft and out through the roof. If I moved the thermostat to the...

I live in a Victorian terraced house which has 6 inch thick walls but which is not cavity walled. It has a 25x10 foot through lounge (2 radiators in it below the windows and high ceilings) and a 10x 7 kitchen dowstairs (1 radiator in it) and the hallway leads to the stairs and upstairs are one...