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It may yet be. Unsurprisingly the roof is leaking in the current rain. Builder summoned to explain and point out damaged felting, and odd choice of build order. They spend this week attaching tiles and measuring fascia, I would have thought should have got felting right, then the valley and...

Any advice welcome. Roofers have been and felt looks folded over and likely to cause pockets and possible pooling. Should I be worried or are they likely to correct this going forward and I shouldn't worry just yet? Many thanks

You may have noticed a large outbuilding in the plan, for some reason I have decided that I want to build myself a workshop and am going to be undertaking most of the build myself, except the pour of the footings. On the main house I have the builders in, not that confident and I don't think the...

Having played around a lot with CAD, this is the current design. I am still playing slightly with internals but planning has been approved now for the external parts so no more changes there. The plan is to extend out the rear with a 2 storey extension to add a bedroom, and then more kitchen...

Hello all, Starting a thread to show my own home extension, having enjoyed reading many others experience. A couple of before plans, these are after the first remodel which added patio doors downstairs and removed a wall in the kitchen. And photos: Front and rear: Front and rear garden...

The pour was almost exactly a month ago now, so would expect it to be pretty well cured. Thanks for the advice; I will scrap the top with a shovel as does appear to be much harder underneath top layer, 1cm maybe less, and then build off that. Tried to jet wash it but doesn't come off so time...

Any idea what went wrong? Contractor poured the footing in heavy rain but claimed it would be ok. The top layer is now like hard clay, it flakes off with a shovel. Can I just build on this with mortar bed for dips or should it I get them to 're do the work? What is the green and pink? Thanks!