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I'm wondering if planning permission would be required to convert a single skin brick outbuilding and link it up to the main house. Currently there is a path which separates the two. This is essentially a garage conversion plus short hallway to connect the two. See pic.

I'm buying a leasehold flat which is in the top floor of a 30s block in london, it is a masnard style roof and i want to know how much of a likely issue this is going forward. Is this style of roof a problem waiting to happen? There is no evidence of any leaks in the flat itself, however you...

I've had a couple of rooms which have had the rads turned off for over a year, as i dont use them. I've turned one of them back on, and it's not getting hot whatsoever. At first i thought i'd unbalanced the system, but i've turned off all the rads now except that one, and it's still totally...

I'm in a large 4 bedroom house and up until now i've turned off 2 radiators in rooms i never use. I'm now turning them back on and finding the system tricky to balance. There are 6 very large radiators in the system, as it's a poorly insualted house and the rooms are massive (high ceilings)...

I had a full house rewire in 2021 when I bought a renovation job. I never actually got the completion certificate, and now I've come to sell I need it for the sale process. I've sent a few messages to the electrician and now he's stopped replying. Surely it's easy for him to just...

I have an existing soil stack which I can't get lead flashing behind. Any suggestions? See pic, the corrugated asbestos has now been replaced with slates.

Just trying to think of the best way to slate around this soil pipe and avoid water getting into the roof around where It meets the roof. It already has old lead flashing around it, but I can't quite decide if it needs another piece which sits underneath thr slate above but overlaps tthe one...

I'm reslating a single storey lean to, and I noticed when I put on the bottom most strip of membrane it does not sit exactly level along the incline of the roof, instead it hits the eves board (which was already in place before I removed the old covering) and has to bow up slightly before...

I have a small lean to single storey I need to reslate. What's the easiest way to finish the verge? I need to finish it in the next couple of days ideally so want to avoid ordering any dry verge kit. Can you just overlap the slates over the edge and then cement/board it underneath to prevent rain?

I have a small lean to roof which I'm removing the corrugated covering from. The roof is shared with next door who have slates. My side probably also had slates as they currently underlap my corrugated cover by about a foot or so. The slates my side must have slipped at some point and someone...

I have a single pitched roof on a garage I need to reslate, right next to it is the same but with 500mm slates. I can get hold of new 600mm fibre cement slates very cheaply, and they look identical to the adjacent slates, but is it possible to blend in these different length slates with thr old...

I'm re-slating a small roof, and have brazilian slates which apparently are best secured with slate hooks. I cant figure out what length the hooks need to be, or whether it really matters. The slates are 500x250, the battens are advised to be 200mm apart (centre to centre) and i need a head...

Toying with replacing an asbestos roof which is on top of a utility room/bathroom (single storey) see pic. Firstly, could I remove this myself? Looks like they're just bolted down presumably into timbers in the loft space underneath. If not, how much roughly do firms charge to remove and...

I'm looking at reroofing my original slate roof, and one roofer suggested that concrete 'fake' slate tiles are a lot cheaper, better and easier to work with. Do these look ok compared to actual slate? I thought they were only used on council houses to keep costs down!

Hello, I'm looking at putting a loft partition wall in, currently there is none between my loft and the neighbours, it's just not really bothered either party, but seems to be a potential issue from a mortgage/fire protection perspective. It seems these can literally just be a stud plasterboard...

I have had an old boiler removed from the chimney breast in the kitchen, however there is now a rectangular gap where the old asbestos panel used to be. Can i cover this gap with cement board or fireproof plasterboard? A cooker will likely go in the chimney breast, and the vertical gap...

I'm thinking of laying new hardwood flooring over existing old pine flooring in a living room, hallway and dining room, mainly to reduce drafts. In the winter I can feel cold air coming up through the cracks. Below the existing floorboards are suspended joists and I'm guessing the bare...

If you are insulating walls internally does this need to extend underneath the floorboards? I'm looking at internal wall insulation for some solid wall rooms, and have been reading some threads which indicate that you shouldn't stop at the floor, and that you need to insulate underneath the...

Anyone had any experience with these? They cost about £150 and reportedly a lot simpler to install than a normal shower pump.

I've come to install the shower enclosure and realised that one walls is a stud wall, but the studs are not in the right place to be able to secure the frame to. I'm thinking of removing some sections of the wall and fitting some noggins in to provide support, then patching it back up. Any...