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Thanks guys, I've applied this acrylic roofing coating with fibres for now. Come spring I might put felt on if it still leaks.

Thanks, I've already got Cromapol Acrylic Roof Coating. It says don't use before frost or rain, so I guess I'll have to let it leak for a week or two more.

What would be the best tool to use to sand it? I don't think I can grind the topcoat off, it's too thick already, but it's bumpy, so if I can grind the bumps off, maybe I can make it flat enough to put the felt on top of that.

I know I was robbed. They took the money and didn't even finish the job. I think I'll keep patching it with a thin layer of topcoat for now, until I have more money to hire someone to put felt on.

The original roof was made with felt, but it was stubbornly leaking, so I hired someone to fix it and they replaced it with a fibreglass resin roof. The new roof was put on in January 2022 and it was made with plywood and resin on top. The resin was this product: and covered with this, with...

It must be at the top of the 2nd floor. I haven't seen the access point itself, don't know what it looks like. I don't know if it's nesting, have only seen one bird there and the sounds in the ceiling space have been there for over 2 months, although this was the first time I heard them myself...

A long overdue update... I bought rat traps, but despite having done measurements couldn't get them through the downlight holes. So I put a mouse trap in with a square of chocolate. For a long time nothing ate it; today I checked and it was finally gone, the trap had been triggered but there...

I was considering that possibility. He's slim so could have made it up the downpipe.

I hope it can be done in a lighter-handed way. I've been quiet because I had a lodger in there and didn't want to be too intrusive, especially since he was moving out. Now I can go in in full armour. I put two squares of chocolate on strings the other day and they're completely gone. Is it ok...

Solid brick. The outside has pebbledash, which provides good enough grip for a squirrel to climb all the way up (as I have witnessed). Not sure about mice and rats. The dormer has stud walls and its roof is of similar construction - two layers of plasterboard with insulation in between. I'm not...

It's a solid wall house with a converted loft. The loft room is a bedroom in use, there are no droppings in there.

It scratches so it's probably a mouse or a squirrel.

Ok, I've ordered an endoscope. Do you guys think it's trapped or it's just that it has found a home in there? If it's the latter, perhaps a repellant spray, applied through the downlight holes, could sort it?

Thanks for the ideas. Any thoughts on the ultrasonic repellents that you plug into a wall socket? Perhaps I could wire one into a downlight to bring it closer to where it's needed? Also, do you think a mouse trap could work? Granted, it may be something bigger. I've seen a squirrel climb the...

Is it likely to go away on its own? How could it gave got in there in the first place?

There is an animal in the space between the ceiling and the roof in my loft dormer. I don't know if it's trapped in there or living there on purpose. It runs around making sounds and then stops. How would I go about removing it from there? The ceiling has downlights, so I guess I could take one...

Thanks guys. A new hob would have cost me £130 or so, I'd still have had to get a gas certified engineer to install it though. I'll use a local company in the future. I couldn't find one (with good reviews) at first, but admittedly didn't search thoroughly. The local company the job was passed...

Hope this is the right place to post it. It's about a gas hob, but has to do with electrics and not gas. I have a gas hob with 4 burners. The electric ignition stopped working on two of them. I booked repair with a nationwide service, which uses local firms, and the payment plan I chose was a...

Thanks, I've vacuum cleaned it, but only from the outside, i.e. by holding the nozzle to the grille, without taking the detachable unit off. Hope this helps. If it doesn't, I'll take it off and give it a more thorough vacuum clean.

I have three BRK 670MBX ionisation smoke alarms. The the ground floor and 1st floor ones go off frequently after cooking in the kitchen or using the shower, apparently triggered by steam / humid air. I reckon this is not normal, they should only be triggered by smoke? The product has good...