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Hi. My house is mid 60s. It’s had a lean to extension installed at some point in the past. It’s single storey, flat roof, roughly 3x3m. My neighbours tell me it has been around since at least the mid 80s, so it has been standing for a long time. It’s all square and true outside, but weirdly...

Hi all Looking to add some soffit vents to my soffits to try and alleviate some condensation in my loft. At the rear of the house this fine, but st the front they will be above a bathroom window (first floor), boiler vent (ground floor) and in the future, vent for kitchen extractor fan...

I had loads of photos but I must have deleted them! I only have a snip of a section from another photo. The roof looks like this all over - it’s all very uniform and straight and square. Imagine this.. covering an entire roof. I know it’s not an ideal image.. I’ll get some better photos tomorrow.

Argh. I somehow don’t have any photos to hand. I’ll have a look through. Could there be condensation on the underside of the tiles that then drips - is that something that could/does happen? Tiles are concrete square ones, flat, interlocking. Theres about 7cm of headlap on where they lay over...

Example photo here. Little spots like drops have hit the membrane from above? Have this in a few places. Some are longer, like a drop has run along the membrane. Unsure if it’s condensation. I am going to look to add some more ventilation to the loft. They seem to be more numerous after rain...

Hi all End terrace house had new roof (tiles, battens, membrane) within the last two years). It’s been rainy gently the last couple of days - no high winds or driving rain - and I see little tiny marks on the breather membrane like wet spots or trickles. These marks were not here a week ago...

Yes, I was going to buy some and add to the general purpose cement mix. Now unsure whether to skip that step and get mastercrete instead - I don’t think it’s much more expensive. Maybe you get less in the bag but I don’t think I’m going to need all of it regardless! I think ready mix will work...

Thanks for this. So you’re suggesting use standard blue circle general purpose cement -not mastercrete - and no plasticiser. Ready mix seemed like a bad idea not without concrete (pardon the pun) advice, it was my last resort!

Hi all. I’m redoing a wet verge on my garage roof. I’m all sorted and set, but I can’t work out what mix I need for the mortar for the wet verge. I find conflicting opinions online. I’ve finally narrowed down the mix I think in need - a combination of cement, building sand and shape sand and a...

on the left you can see the untreated rear of the red painted wood from the front.

hi all, House ownership is frustrating! My garage has a tilted roof with tiles. Inside, you can see the wooden supports running from brackets in the house down to the edge wall of the garage. One of these af the very end is getting damp and going soft. On the other side of this beam is the...