roof

Hi All, I'm planning a single storey rear extension on my 1930s terraced house - 4.5m deep, full width of the house - 6m. The house is on naturally sloping land, higher at the front. At the back of the house, there is a 0.7m drop to the patio and then a 0.4m drop to the original ground level...

Hi Guys, Looking at the attached plan... with the joists running left to right.... which joist size would be suitable: 1) 8x2 2) 8x3 3) 9x3 The internal walls are solid block and load bearing

Hi guys, Would anyone be able to suggest the best way to frame this flat roof (cold roof because of height restrictions)? Will be using C24 9” x 3" and all the internal walls are solid block load bearing. I was thinking about creating a 2 way fall to each side with firring strips. OSB and then...

Hi All, Apologies if this is roof construction 101. I recently bought an old house and the garage has zero roof insulation. The roof consists of the timber frames, battens, nails & tiles. I would like to add a membrane and insulation without dismantling or redoing any of the existing roof...

Hello My neighbour has almost finished their L Shaped Dormer and the Builders/Roofers have damaged my roof etc and have now after a lot of chasing they are working to make repairs (they were standing on my roof to complete the Dormer - i consented to this under the understanding that they repair...

Just had some dry hips installed, but there’s no membrane underneath. The unions are screwed directly into the batten underneath. Quite large gaps under the hip tiles. Should I be worried?

Looking at renovating my garage in the near future, however I've no idea how serious the cracking in some of the concrete roof beams are. It's an old concrete sectional garage (no idea how old), and some of the beams have crumbled to the point which the rods are exposed and rusting. I've not...

We are planning to build a conservatory extension adjacent to the neighbour's wall. We have some concerns about the way in which the waste pipe from the neighbours' first floor bathroom connects with ours into a shared pipe on our property, as well as how their extension has a rainwater pipe...

Another one from the "I'm an idiot" files: I bought a tiny shed/garden store with a little felt roof. The instructions said to fold the roof felt over the edges of the roof panel and nail down on the underside, with no specific instructions on how to do the corners. So I tried to use my sewing...

Hello, Hopefully a straightforward question (and hopefully I'm posting this in the right place), I have little to no DIY skills, but I'm working on it! We have an old Garage/Outbuilding that has been in a state of disrepair since long before we bought the house. We finally have a bit of time...

Hi, I’m looking for advice. We have had a terrible GRP roof done on a kitchen extension. There are holes, rips, parts which have no coating. You can see all the matting. The company have admitted the faults. They claim they will fix them but I don’t want them to just patch it up! Has anyone...

Hi all, Just moved into a new place and inspected the roof, which looks quite tired in this section. Anyone any ideas how long this will hold out and whether it’s a case of having to replace the whole roof ? Thanks

Hi, We have an Edwardian orangery (walled both sides) and a double-glazed roof (4.5m x 3m). We have been looking at a roof replacement as a DIY job but we are way out of our depth! Can anyone suggest the cost we would be looking at for the following instead? Supalite roof installation...

Hi all Need to gain 20 mm height on soil stack,the point where the soil pipe exits the building,I understand water doesn't run up hill only option I seen to have is relocate exit on gable end and bring around corner, completely out the way.I would also run the two external waste...

We are missing some flat coping stones from the parapet wall, as seen in this picture: https://imgur.com/a/kIEcmf9. I've tried a few reclamation yards around us (East London), and none of them have them, nor seem like they would ever get them How would you replace these?

Morning all Currently building single storey extension warm roof construction.All walls up currently have all materials onsite for roof,need to get water tight asap.. I have taken plasterboard away to reveal joist and drilled through wall has a gauge,temporary inserted steel rods for 195...

Thanks to this lovely weather I've got to re felt my shed tbh I've been patching it up for a while. I've no idea how I'm going to do it as I can't get the left fascia off as the previous owner has put it up against the wall. Any advice on what felt I should get? I've had a quick look on...

Hi I'm looking to split one large bedroom into two. It will require a new entrance doorway knocking through on the landing. The wall is a supporting wall. As it is upstairs there is only three or four courses of bricks above where the doorway will be. However when checking in the loft there is...

Hi hopefully someone with roofing experience could advise me and my wife if the roof contractor has done a good job on our roof. We had our entire roof replaced recently (which was quite a shock as we were not expecting the roof to be that bad) The roofing company managed to strip the roof...

Hi - woodburner - stainless pipe through roof via lead flashing - has storm collar - ok for several years now (after some external sealing with grey lead sealant) though now leaking a bit in intense rain between the double wall pipe and the lead tube. (suspect through rain bouncing off roof...