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That’s fair enough Robin, I appreciate the faith! In all honestly I’m very early in my DIY journey and haven’t quite built up the confidence to take on a job that involves building control just yet. Hopefully one day

I didn’t know what I was dealing with to start with. It very well could have been an easy DIY job if it was just a case of repairing some felt. Thanks to the experience shared I now know that’s not the case.

I’ve got plenty of other jobs to be getting on with and it’ll be far less agg using a pro than doing it myself and having to deal with BC! Not opposed to ree’s suggestion at all

@ree absolutely, that’s the plan. I’ll get a pro in but will the tape do until I can do so? Any thoughts on ballpark costs?

Thanks for the thorough explanation @ree . I hadn’t considered that the joists would be running the other way due to the fall. That’s slightly less concerning then! If I’ve understood you correctly, the drip batten can’t have been wrapped given the felt is resting inside the gutter? Or perhaps...

Potentially this is not actually the case, it seems it would only be classified as "building work" if it was compliant before and wasn't after, or was never compliant and is now less so.

Yep indeed, but I think BC would still need to be involved given it then becomes a structural job?

@noseall yep that's a bloody pain, I assume because 50% of the thermal element is being 'renovated'? I lived next door to a roofer at my last place so I've sent him a message, I think replacing the joist is out of my wheelhouse especially with having to get BC involved! Re the surveyor - they...

I've just been up a ladder and the joist isn't looking great, definitely seems like dry rot to me.

Thanks @Notch7, yeah it's in surprisingly good nick other than some of the grit having come loose. I'll have to get up on a ladder and see how the wood is looking. I'm hoping this is a relatively new thing as I'd be baffled if the surveyor hadn't caught it a few months ago. In terms of doing a...

Hi all, We moved in to our first house a couple of weeks ago and I've just noticed this out of the spare bedroom window. We have a half width, single storey extension which contains the downstairs bathroom and toilet. The survey did say the roof would eventually need replacing but didn't...

Well, I’ve discovered the first of what I imagine will be many pretty ugly jobs in our new house. The under stairs cupboard in the kitchen was (and soon will be again) used to house the washing machine with the dryer stacked on top. It had a false floor which wasn’t in great shape and had...

They are, that’s not a bad shout at all!

Hi all, I’ve just finished up fixing an interior vent cover to the front wall and was a bit surprised by what I found when drilling. I picked up some yellow plugs with 35mm screws. I’d drilled probably 30mm in to the wall and suddenly broke through in to some sort of void. Our survey was...

For what it’s worth, my theory is they’ve dot and dabbed some insulated plasterboard (given it’s an external wall) but instead of joining it up to the pitched ceiling they’ve whacked a picture rail on to try and conceal the gap

We’ve just moved in to our new home and starting to look at redecorating. It’s a semi and all the rooms upstairs have a “semi pitched” ceiling on the external walls. I haven’t been up in to the loft yet to see how they’re constructed but that’s a bit beside the point. One of the rooms has a...

Thanks for the reply Woody! It was only a level 2 survey rather than a damp survey, so they didn't go in to that much detail. It had been seriously wet when the survey was done (this was around March, didn't stop raining) so certainly could have been penetrating damp. The damp readings were at...

Hi all, We're getting pretty close to completing on a 1920s/30s solid wall semi, so I've decided to finally stop lurking and make an account here. We had a survey done prior to exchange which noted high damp readings in a couple of places, as well as a few potential causes: 1. Pebbledash...