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That bit with the yellow arrow? I thought it looks like the seal peeling back. You can see it doing the same thing further up at the inner edge, although that bit likely wouldn't cause a leak.

This one. You can see the standing water on the window sill that can get blown in there.

Check your seal around that window. It looks manky and I can see a hole in it. Could be water is filtering through your walls, hence the delay in it appearing.

I think building control is for removing the entire chimney stack and breast, but not for the bit above the roofline. Why do you want to cap the remaining part in the loft?

I'd have another look at that fake window. I had a similar issue in the old house and discovered that it was a 0.5mm crack in the sealant around the window letting in over 1 litre of water per hour in heavy rain when the wind was blowing in a certain direction. Obviously you don't have an actual...

Looks like they threw those slates up from ground level, like frisbees.

Let me know when you find the answer. 5* reviews are worthless. Recommendations are a waste of time too, because even if they're unsolicited by the roofer, they need to be recent, for similar work and - importantly - you have to know the same individuals will be doing your job as did the...

I'd pay one of them to come 400 miles, stay in a hotel and do the job, because there are none up here.

Can't speak for anyone else, but in my experience no, I've not encountered a single competent roofer. Not even close. Just been on the phone this morning telling the latest one to get out there and fix water trickling from a saturated chimney stack. Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't given him £3k...

I got a quote from Safestyle a month or so back, just so I could get a ballpark comparison. The salesman came out with (wait for it)... £33k, then said if I consented to 'marketing photos' he'd knock it down to £18k. Then he actually phoned his boss (i.e. the intern) at which point I couldn't...

Check the sealant round the window first. An easy fix if that's the problem. When I had similar in the old house a 2mm gap in the sealant let in three bucketfuls of water during a single rainstorm.

Patch them up. Mine has a 4mm crack top to bottom because the extension settled. I had a local structural engineer put it in writing that it's historic so I'll be grouting it up and painting it in the spring. My insurance company already does me up the chute for premiums so I'm not giving them...

The house I just bought had cracking I wanted to be sure wasn't a big deal. Not this type, but settlement of an extension built in an ill-advised manner. As RICS surveys tell you precisely nothing and structural surveys cost £2k or more (and don't get me started on the Ts&Cs), I found a local...

Either the entire wall needs sealing, repointing, rendering or you've got a poltergeist. Not sure which would be preferable.

So what's that?

Neither I, nor anybody reading your posts, gives a solitary shrivelled thrice-desiccated f ** k about the use of ellipsis in quotes.

Do you have any idea how pathetic you sound?

Don't know, but wouldn't be surprised. A bit like on any large free speech march you'll get a small group of goons strutting around doing Nazi salutes and it's clear to everyone with a brain that they're old bill.

Any other meaningless lefty buzzwords you can come up with or are you done for the day?

If that's the case, maybe shut up?