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Are you the tenant or the landlord? When I was renting, we had a similar situation. Gutter was faulty and water was pi55ing through the walls. We told our landlord & estate agents numerous times and they never fixed it. So we stopped paying rent for 2 months :)

thanks by the way

Problem is its a terraced house, and there is no load supporting walls near the purlin...as I was going to sister a length to it if needed but that would also need supporting - right? ahh help.

It really doesn't appear to be majorly rotten. But obviously I can't see inside the wood. No sagging etc and its unsupported for the entire length

Right ok.....is there any diy repair I can do? without cutting the existing purlin?

The beam is about 110 years old. So i take it to be oak? The span is around 4 metres. Supported either end on brickwork which petrudes from wall. Rot is about a metre in and appears to be solid after the rot was scraped off

Hi, I noticed my 7x3" purlin has some old rot in it, this is from a roof leak in the past which also caused some rot to a rafter. I (sistered) the rafter. But didn't notice the purlin. The rot is on top side of purlin where the rafter sits. I scraped out rot back to what I believe to be hard...

I.E.D's will solve this problem

Out of curiosity, what did you do about the rafters?

Hi, Was in my mums loft earlier & noticed 4 rafters next to each don't quite reach the ridge board. I thought maybe they had spread - But the birdsmouth over purlin was tight fitting & no other signs of spread. Could they have been cut too short originally? Should she be worried? I'm sure I...

Hi. I get exactly the same thing in my house. Same age as yours & solid walls. Its hygroscopic salts in the plaster in my case. The salts suck moisture in and it appears damp. But to the touch its just cold. Search salt damp on google. I also have a chimney that suffers from it due to salts...

Most probably salts left behind from when fire was in use. I get it in my property. Salt staining on chimneys & one exterior wall in lounge. It flares up when humid/cooking or raining.

How rotten are they? Poke with a screwdriver. I sistered 3 rafters in my loft. They had some rot just below the ridge board on the top edge of rafter. From an old leak before we lived here or possibly condensation. I just scratched out the rot. Maybe just over an inch deep on top of the 2x4...

Hi. My bay window wall suffers from the same (wall gets soaked overnight when cold). Its because there usually single skin blockwork in period properties and suffer from condensation. Only real fix is to insulate the wall with insulating plaster board on battens. I still need to do this haha

This is most likely the case. I had the same thing in a property i used to rent.

Thanks for putting our minds at rest :)

Hello, I live in a 100+ year old home with the same age roof rafters. In that that time some of the rafters have twisted in the natural drying process and the rafter cuts that meet the ridge board are twisted,so the full face of the rafter cut is not sitting completely flush on ridge board. Is...

Hi, Neighbor found out today that they may have a leak in the mains water pipe supplying there's & ours house. Water board and fairly sure its under there property & not ours. But seeing as its shared are we responsible for any costs incurred from repair/replacement? The water board bloke kept...

Yes I would insist, its your hard earned money..a proper job should be done. I don't fuss about tears in felt, my roof is full of them. But at the same time yours is in the process of being done and I'm sure when mine was done years ago it wouldnt of had rips in it..

Thanks for your reply woody, would you advise me to carry the new piece of timber over the purlin? Cheers