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Thank you so much to everyone for your responses. I am very grateful that you would put all that time in to reply (and quite chuffed that it's stirred up a hornet's nest :wink: ) oldun - thank you. Slates are 20 x 10 reclaimed and that seems to be the going rate round here. Thanks for the...

OK, sorry for adding again, but just been up the scaffolding debating and looking. The other problem with having gutters up now is that the downspouts will be in new locations and the drains aren't ready. Because we can't be certain exactly where they will be till the chamber is in the ground...

Oooh that's an idea, thanks noseall. OK, don't rub it in about the elusive arrows - I obv have rubbish keyboard - still can't see the little swines....

Thanks chaps, I can see that the price looks pretty good when compared to the £4.5kish that people seem to be paying just for a reroof - I look tight now. A friend was meant to be doing the roof for us and it would've been £2k all in so budget is very squeezed now that he can't do it...

Hi all, We are having a 2 storey side extension (5.1 x 3.7m) on a 1940's ex-council semi with hipped slate roof. Extension will have new hipped roof to hipped roof. Existing roof is backfilled which is all dropping off, slates and ridge tiles starting to slip and needs sorting so we are having...

Found the foundation for the chimney/kitchen wall thank god! Under chimney hearth is defo just soil however so still have a filling-in problem, and wall is going to need sorting damp-wise so cream/slate/rebuild question still stands. Many thanks Kirsten

Hi all, Been reading posts for months, now we are on with the work and sure enough, I need some help! We are having a 2 story side extension which is nearly at roof height and going well but that's another tale. While we are doing this there have been a number of problems thrown up showing...

Thanks so much for your replies and sorry didn't acknowledge them sooner. OK, will look into room stat. For condensate, think we can sort it to drain into the shower waste (the shower is next to the airing cupboard the boiler is in). It'll mean pulling out the shower tray to connect pipe...

Hi, First post but been trawling the forum for ages with interest. We bought and renovated our house 10 years ago and got central heating system with Saunier Duval 30e combi put in. We now have to run taps at a trickle to get water hot enough for a bath although the central heating is fine...