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Thank you, I think I understand. The reason for the tiles not slate is cost. The existing slates were in poor condition. You could see daylight in the loft through holes in them. The majority were not salvageable. The cost of buying real slates was a lot more than tiles. I simply couldn't...

Sorry, it's the best I can do with my 5 year old phone. Could a bonding gutter be put on at this stage, given there is already a hidden gutter? The pic of the other house, is that a bonding gutter?

So how do you get access to the manhole?

I've recently had a roofer replace a roof for me. It definately needed doing, you could see daylight through various holes in the slates when in the loft. A lot of the timbers were rotten as it had been left to leak for years (before I bought the house). The slates didn't look great as they came...

That has put my mind at rest, thanks so much. I'm still waiting for the test results back but I won't freak out if it comes back positive now.

The existing holes in the suspect board can't be used as putting one round one where each hole is will not be adequate ventilation, there need to be more of them as the new vents are a smaller area than the old ones.

There were vents there already. They are the only ventilation for the roof space so are needed. The old ones were the old rectangular type. Looking around the whole estate, no one seems to have these any more. Instead they are all either a continuous but very narrow vent on the outside edge of...

I forgot to say, I did speak to the company boss, and it was his suggestion to leave it in place undisturbed and cover over it with the PVC, which seemed like a reasonable solution to me at the time. I also know he did speak to and take some advice from a specialist who apparently agreed with...

Thank you so much for the 2 replies so far. Sorry I didn't post photos, it just didn't occur to me. I will wait for the test results. Hopefully if it is asbestos, it will at least be the lowest risk cement mix type. Then I need to decide if it's safe to allow them to put in the vents which will...

I am hoping for some advice please. I recently decided to get the soffits, facias and guttering replaced on my house which was built in 1990. The idea was to completely remove all the old ones and fit new PVC ones. But when the contractors started, they broke off the first bit of the soffit and...