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Hi - I trying to help my nephew with a flat he is keen on in North London. It is on the second floor of a Edwardian villa, the house itself is a semi with two substantial chimney's. The flat in question is in the attic space, with one of the chimney breasts removed. It also has two dormers...

This situation has arisn due to a two storey rear extention being built on a sloping site to begin with (sloping down to the back garden), plus some poor ground that meant the founds had to go deeper. A basement has thus been created at the back. What happens in this instance? Are you...

I have just agreed to buy a house I really like. It was only built in 2010 and is a 3 bed chalet semi. The house has gas central heating with boiler in the kitchen. But both the lounge at the back and the master bedroom above lack a radiator and there is no other forms of heating in these...

I am interested in a house for sale. It is a Victorian semi with gable roof which is laid in concrete tiles. It is being sold as a 2 bed house with loft room and it must be some form of ladder access. In the loft is a fully fitted out bedroom with double bed, wardrobe, TV. No en-suite. No...

I was just wondering how this is done when a single storey timber frame extension goes out from a cavity back wall of the existing house ie at right angles. Do you chop a vertical dpc into the cavity? Is the timber panel simply bolted to the wall or is there more to it than that? Like a...

A neighbour has removed his chimney breast and hearth in the living room. The joists go parallel to the the hearth and he has found himself with no central support to the joists. His solution was to run 50 x 100m joists right across, which is a span of about 3.30m. The centres are 400 but the...

My neighbours behind are having their house re-roofed and it has been a good opportunity to watch and learn. The house is an inter-war semi with a steep pitched hip roof. On the side is a large dormer serving the loft conversion, which is 1990's at a guess. There are two rooflights on each side...

A guy close by is carrying out a renovation and the the kitchen door is being blocked up with lightweight clinker blocks of about 8kg. The joists run across the doorway and are 3 by 2 at 400 centres, this being a 1920's semi. The joists terminate in a sleeper wall just past the door threshold...

I live in a 1920's solid brick semi. Next door at the back they have a 1.8m lean to extension with pitched roof. Their son is a builder and is fitting two velux windows to the roof. Upon taking down the ceiling to expose the roof they have found that there was one UB of about 3.5m and possibly...

An extension novice here, looking to save time and hopefully cash by getting the site organised before any builders come in. It is a rear extension and at the back there is 5m x 4m of 45cm patio flags on top of a bed of a concrete and hardcore mix that is solid and about 12cm deep. In the...

Some people I know have put in for full PP for a single storey rear extension which will finish under 2m from a public sewer in the back garden. I think it is about 1.5m at the nearest point. The nearest point is also the inspection chamber. The sewer is 150m diameter and is not very deep...

This relates to a house I have moved from but the issue still bugs me :). The neighbours needed to move the inspection chamber on their property that our toilet drain served ie lateral drain, for their extention. The drain itself ran in almost a horizontal line of about 1m over the boundary...

This is the extension that was passed just a few days before I moved from my old house. Putting aside the fact I was a bit cheesed off it got approved, as a project I found it very interesting and was sorry to miss it going up. The primary question I have is about the roof construction because...

This relates to my previous house so not the one in the other thread. The application was from next door for a two storey side extension over an existing garage, very slightly wider and longer than the original, with a gap of about 20-25 cm between their front edge and the boundary line on the...

Just over a year ago the couple next door applied to build a single storey rear extension under the neighbourhood consultation scheme to replace an existing conservatory. This application was submitted by the builder. About a month later I got a letter from the planning department saying the...

I have recently bought this house and have had quite a bit disappointment with it so far. On my survey the kitchen was graded "2" with 1 being good and 3 replace immediately. The Surveyor found some damp in the RH back corner plus the living room and advised I get a damp survey which I did...