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Instead of pulling the skirting back off the nails, prise the skirting very slightly from the wall and using a metal blade in the recip, slide the blade down the back of the skirting & cut the nail. You could even use a hacksaw blade to achieve the same result. I assume that in an average room...

Rubbish deleted Please stop being an idiot MOD.

A cheap multi-tool or a recip saw will cut them - allow the blade to sink into the plaster. saves all the knocking and pulling about. You have what look like glued down cork tiles. Or even vinyl tiles with a mottled pattern? Some are self-adhesive but anyway, if necessary, they are easy to...

What flue? The OP's not mentioned any flue? Stop this trolling nonsense that might confuse OP's.

I'm big enough to change my mind when, on second thoughts, i can advise the OP better - learn from it. Rubbish deleted Mod OP, there's a couple of reasons i changed my mind for BB.

The tiled hearth you've exposed is possibly sitting on a concrete or stone sub-hearth. Remove the tiles and prise up the wood surround (the Margin) and more should be revealed for pic and posting. The wall behind the hearth has a blocked off fireplace opening, and possibly a chimney flue. Any...

Looking again at the pic, & how you've pieced the ply in - it would probably be best to use the backerboard, dont use ply. Its often best to use a tile saw with porcelain.

"if you know what your doing" - that rules you out then. I do know what i'm doing but thank you for mentioning it. Well my troll friend, to illustrate by example, why not try your experiments in a low level hip roof loft that contains a few purlins?

Ignore the troll. eg. Its "not clear" but whats not clear is "blatantly incorrect"? Thank God he cant read? What i suggested will work in a small area with large tiles but sure, overlay with 9mm ply if you want to, and again do it well screwed down. Make a paper template for cutting the ply -...

I'm sorry if you are weeping - & still not understanding. If the penny finally drops you will apologise wont you?

If the old tiles are tiled over plasterboard and you double up on them then there's every chance that the extra weight might pull the p/board away from its fixings. Very bad advice to double tile on p/b. Not saying its likely but If there is a "can of worms" hidden behind the p/b then you dont...

Stop with your nonsense of shooting yourself in the foot - perhaps you will read the post referred to. Please read all posts before commenting on them - it really helps - & then come back & apologise.

Its not a DIY job, & the idea of anyone attempting it without draining the pool wont fly.

No further ahead - except its not cut rafters but a trussed roof, and the latest pics show a gap between the truss rafters and the new lengths? There's no way that the soffit would need new lengths for the remedial fixing of rotten rafter tails. No fixings have been removed. My #4 deals with...

You could start again or make the best of what you've already done? There's too much to teach you but if you go on utube and carefully watched the tiling vids you would pick up far more than reading text on here - just saying. If its a working saw and you know how to use it - yes. But striking...

Sorry, but thats not a DIY job. I've done a bit of tiling but never a garden pool or indoors public baths etc. However, i do know that on a job like that various snags will possibly keep shooting up from the unknown unknowns. There's a safety aspect even after emptying the pool, and there's...

Thanks. On the basis of that one pic its maybe an attempt at sistering (now known as brothering) the existing rafters to strengthen them or straighten them out. Thing is, there's barely any fixings to be seen - unless they've been fixed from the other side? But even then, we most always bolt-on...

You correctly have the 2/3 HAP height above plate. BCO wont mind. The ceiling plasterboard will cover what you see as an issue. If you are a DIY'er then well done for taking on a bit of roof cutting.

Perhaps if you posted a few pics it would help - please show where this attachment business is taking place?

As someone with a bit of refurbishment experience, I'd say dont do it. Dont ever use brick slips or Faux stone on your outside walls. Stick with what you've got or get advice from the painter's forum for improving the existing paint job.