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Hello Literally just had my roof felt & battens replaced. When they started removing tiles they realised the tiles were stretched causing the leaks in the beginning. I live in a old terraced property with clay double Roman tiles. To over come the stretched gauging which both neighbours also have...

Hello, I want to build a pond fairly soon. I plan on it being 3m long 2m wide 0.75m depth. I also want to do this myself as I don't have the funds to pay someone for things like this.. Now I've never done anything like this so looking for advice. I thought about using concrete blocks 2 skin...

Believe it or not, we experience the same thing. We live in an old cottage, which in areas has hygroscopic salts leaching through the plaster. On warm humid days we get the same smell along with 2 patches of "Salt Damp". The smell could he wallpaper paste residue re hydrating I suppose. In my...

Thanks. Sounds like a good plan. Just a few questions. What kind of thickness should the angle iron be roughly? Also what sort of length. Should I go a metre or so past the rot? Thanks

Thanks Woody, what would a repair be to this? The rot is about an inch deep and extends about 5/6 inches along the length of purlin and is situated about a metre away from the brick corbel. I was tempted to get a 2 metre length of say 7x2" timber and coach bolt & spur connector them together...

Hello again, We are getting our roof re felted/battened etc in the near future along with 3 rafters. But I found some rot in the purlin which I told the roofer about but didn't say anything at the time , just said he'd would be in touch once they have got through some of there work load. They...

Hi. No only under 1 rafter. Total of about 7 inch length.

Thanks. Using existing clay double romans but have 100's of spares to hand. Gave go ahead to roofer to take on the work

Hello again. Im after hopefully some really sound advice as I just dont know what to do... So basically one of my purlins has some rot but doesnt appear major - the purlin is 7 inches x 3 inches in size and is unsupported in the middle due to the load bearing wall being in the middle of the...

I had a similar situation to you. 3 rafters were rotten below the ridge board. I just sistered them with new timber of similar size (tight fit against ridge board) using coach bolts.

I tell no lies :) my mate recommended him. He goes around all day with 2/3 others and they do loads of smaller jobs in a day and charge less if you get me. Took them an hour, ridge tiles were loose as **** and chimney is small.

Depends on how big the roof is - I had the flashing completely replaced last week and re bedded all ridge tiles ( 12 crested ridge tiles) and paid the bloke £100 cash... 3 blokes on it took them an hour. Climbing up battens that is lol

I bet its condensation...I had the exact same thing in my back bedroom...turns out there was literally no insulation in the eaves...put some in there hey presto.

Hi. does anyone know If I were to sister a length to it with bolts etc if i would need to support it? One side will be resting on the brickwork. Its just there is nothing to support it on ie: load bearing wall is in middle of loft. thanks

I get no luck either as lost my job :(

Thanks for reply, would I get away with not supporting it? I've been up in the loft again today after fitting some new flashing to the chimney. I attacked it with a screw driver again and it only goes to roughly 1.5cm for a 6 inch span of the purlin not all the way across the top of the purlin...

Can I sister a length to the purlin, using big bolts & washers ? The rot is about a metre from the end of the purlin so say I used a 2 metre length of new timber the same size? Thanks

It will be a joint job if you get me - as in the cost should be split, as you both need to buy / fashion a connection up that both types of gutter can link to without leaking.

The rafters are bird mouthed over the purlin -The purlin itself sits vertical if you get what i mean

Hi chappers, Yes there is a load bearing wall down the centre, we removed the wall on the ground floor though and its rs'jd do I need to put supports in? my neighbours have the same. Think its how they built them