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There's alot of stuff online suggesting repointing ridge tiles is not recommended because it won't last very long. Almost everything points to removal, clean up and rebedding, or fitting dry system. I understand why you had yours repointed especially if it was very cheap but its unlikely I find...

Thank you. That would be a good option if I get lucky and see someone who Im happy with. I think with this job, yes I could throw a few £k at it of course and get it done, and there will be people ready to take my money. If repointing them up is sufficient to make it last another 5 years, for...

Same question to you really - do you agree the whole job needs doing? Or do I have other options, such as a smaller patch repair, finding a 'handyman' who is more willing to work off a ladder/small platform to get the costs down, something else I haven't thought of?

Do you agree the job definitely needs doing? Obviously with these things sometimes its easy to panic and think I have to do it, in this case is that in agreement or do you think I can wait?

Yep I considered something similar. But I think we're splitting hairs here - this is a big job for a DIYer to take on and I don't think finding small work arounds to little problems is going to change that. Can we bring it back up to a higher level please. I need to know how Im going to...

I think its easy to think I could do this job, and I probably could but at much greater risk and hassle than a professional who does this for a living. I think I have to draw a line and say that as someone with absolutely no roofing experience nor the right safety equipment, on quite a complex...

If I did it myself it might take me several weekends doing a bit at a time. That's continually up and down on the roof, moving my scaffold tower around, clambering across the roof, mixing up small batches of mortar etc. The roof pitch is 45 degrees, so quite steep and I wouldn't be able to...

It is a job I would love to have confidence to try myself. The mortar is mostly missing so I don't think I'd have a problem getting the original tiles off. And I can mix up some stiff mortar by hand a bit at a time and re-bed tiles Im sure. I could save a fair bit of money if I did. The issues...

No it isn't leaking at all, yet. Its just clear there is no mortar left hardly. I could leave it and wait till it leaks or a tile falls off in the wind, is that what you think is the best option? I could potentially buy a set of ladders or a scaffold tower and be able to repair a small number...

Hi all, Ive known about this need for a year or so now. Most of the ridge and hip tiles have mortar missing and there are some new gaps forming all the time. I think Im going to need to bite the bullet and get it all done. I wish it was a job I could try myself, Im sure I could mix up some...

Yeah you're right of course. I don't do these things every day so its hard to know as a DIYer trying to do a good job, how much accuracy should be accepted. If you're doing this every day then you know what is and isn't sufficient, and how to solve certain problems (like a sagged ceiling) or...

Should I remove the hangers I installed to decouple the existing ceiling from the new joists? Looking at this instead to strap the ceiling joist to a purlin above...

Yeah the ceiling is already nicely plastered and you can't really see the sag in it from the room itself, its much more obvious looking at it from the top in the loft. The ceiling joists, whilst sagged, are not rotten in any way, and they span from wall plate to wall plate and are nailed into...

Yes I realise this now, if the new joists sag it will push down on the existing ceiling. Maybe I should remove these (I still can) so that the new floor is completely independent. I just wanted to try and make the existing ceiling stronger given how badly sagged it is (2" in the middle compared...

Yeah there is a big gap to the existing ceiling although it's worth me also raising something else here then to confirm I've done the right thing. The existing ceiling is quite badly sagged/dished. A piece of timber has been hung from from the ridge beam at some point in the past to try to stop...

It's a bit annoying as the rest of my loft floor was flat as a pancake I didn't have any issues like this. But these longer 2x6s were more awkward to get right. What would they do if building a whole house and you get some variability in the timber? What if I plane it and then it settles which...

I don't know what to do now. I wanted to get the job as perfect as possible. You can't see any deviation in the floor when looking at it visually but if I put my level across it it pivots on the high spot so that it's a 3mm gap either side. But it might settle on its own?

Is it worth the hassle do you think? If I'm insulating under floors and keeping a radiator obviously that would be much simpler and cheaper. It would have been a good opportunity to do UFH if I'm getting floors up, but maybe it's not worth the faff.

So I'd be comfortable DIYing the floor reconstruction including the insulation, floor boarding system and integrating the UFH pipework in the grooves. However then Im left with a UFH pipework system not connected to anything. What would be the step of installing the appropriate manifold when...

Hi all, so this is a speculation question at the moment. I have a 3 bed semi currently on combi boiler and radiators. Solid wall 1930s. Loft well insulated and newish double glazed windows. Downstairs is suspended timber floors, uninsulated, drafty with some gaps. Rooms are hallway, kitchen...