Would an aco drain be suitable for a property with a similar isssue. Slabs are high plus no way of sloping garden/slabs away from house. Or would you recommed cutting 2 bricks wide and 2 fft deep around the perimeter and filling in with peebles to allow drainage of rain water

How would you test for Sulphates out of interest to determine if it was the chimney breast?

I’m having a double storey side extension which the ground level is not straight and if I follow the existing DPC it will be below 150mm. Do I have to follow the existing DPC or the existing can have it on a different level? The existing DPC is two brick above ground level and if I follow that is going to be one brick on the side extension? What should I do? Many thanks

Great video. I've just brought a property and my neighbor has breached my damp proof course to my garage what would appear to be some time ago. I'm not sure of my legal position on this but is there a way to fix this without asking the neighbour to lower the level of their drive or is that the only option? Any help would be much appreciated 👍🏻

What tiles are they on that roof? Are mendip tiles? We have aame issue and wonder what tiles to go for....

There’s all one course of bricks from the footing to damp course on my house, where should I finish the patio

Great video i currently have a problem with wet marks just above my skirting board ive had a leaking gutter for a long while which is currently being fixed (new fascia and gutter all around the house) i think my problem may also be that my plastic decking is above the dpc and is also tight to the wall ...

is that it lol what a job you have

At that pitch it looks like the tiles are basically horizontal 😂 IMO looks like the membrane was doing the heavy lifting and it finally broke

I’m actually reading the biography of Sir John W.Laing and I’m just reading about the Easiform system❤

What are those bricks called with the squiggle pattern on. I see them everywhere especially on old council houses

If they cut out a 150mm channel but the infill of shingle was level with the dpc, would that still be bridging?

We have that urea formaldehyde stuff. Its wierd! Just sort of disintegrates when you handle it. Don't know how good it is but obviously it can't be easily removed and replaced with something different

Thanks that is really helpful, I remember I had about 10 of those holes on the back wall of my last house, made the wall look rather unsightly!

always think - if something goes wrong and I have to remove it, how easy / how much cost would that be. Avoid solutions like this - the long term cost is bonkers

see, this is when you find a ghost. then you have to figure out how to expel the ghost. yelling at the ghost just makes it mad. Saying "go to the light" cause the T.V. to go all staticky and your little kid touching the screen, and the cat won't come down from the upper shelf. Don't drink the Tequila out of the bottle. You'll get a worm.

Thanks for your video, whats the best soloution or material to put in central vallies like that? Is fiber glass a good idea?

2 fixes both not expensive compared with a new roof. 1. Reroute the down pipe from the main roof so all that water does not flow over the lower roof. 2. Remove the tiles and install a heavy duty felt then refit the tiles, that will make sure that if any rain back flows under the tiles it still does not end up into the inner roof/ceiling below.

Very good demonstration

Just a little feedback, stick to 1 unit of measurement instead of going from inches to mm

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Fantastic explanation. These videos are really informative.

What is the reason for the slope? Why does it differ from a normal 90 degree angle ceiling.

A good quality render solves damp penetration on such a wall .

It must have passed funal council inspection ????

Not enough roof slope is a big problem .as a roofer it can be cured with 4.2s and new batton .at a cost

Those plastic dry verges are rubbish in Cornwall especially when they are badly retrofitted by upvc barge board installers.

What is the solution to a bridged horizontal d.p.c

Yeah, but was there damp?

My next door neighbour had a small extension put on the side of his house @5 years ago. The roof pitch was clearly inadequate - when the builder was up there I asked him what it was - he said "somewhere between 6 and 10 degrees" so he clearly didn't know. At this stage I should declare my job means I know about these things. I warned my neighbour but he said he trusted his builder implicitly. Every year he gets water ingress and his builder has stopped returning his calls..........

Artex made from asbestos?

Surely the door that’s filled is better insulated as it was a brighter colour on thermal imaging?

and?

Nice show and tell. My mum got a call from a spray foam salesman saying that all the insulation that was fitted back in the last decade has been found to cause damp and now they are ripping it out to do spray foam. Luckily enough I was on hand to talk to them and once i started probing with the type of questions that gave the game away that I knew what I was talking about they just hung up. Looks like the government free cash giveaway to these people is still running.

My building fitted the roof on our extension at too shallow a pitch, I had the back to redo it which they did, but of course internally it looks a mess around the roof lights.

Just an idea,maybe do a voice over the vid.rather than a vid with wind. Also it seems the pitch is too shallow for either tiles or slate. Felt would be my go to.

Love the fact that you discussed the price of the quotes for the different types of works. Really helpful for anyone looking to have similar work done.

Interesting and informative video. My father has a similar problem.

This is a night mare because the company's who sell it don't repair the roof before they fit the spray foam which then masks the problem all They are bothered about is selling the product I have been roofing 40 plus years and have been to numerous problems with roofs leaking

Having the main roof drain onto it is probably not a good idea.

Quick Question, My loft doesn't have a membrane, you are literally looking at the back of the tiles. What's the best option for insulation? We have insulation on the floor but do I need to add anymore anywhere else? from what i understand the wind blows across the attic space to provide fresh air and the floor insulation keeps the heat from rising up from downstairs?? Im hoping to get a loft conversion done but not sure if the whole roof will need to be replaced

the beams would have been ok to support slates is my guess but when you add cement or terra-cotta tiles the weight must surely increase at least four fold ? am i right in that thinking ?

Replace concrete tiles with slate

0:41 Sounds funny

So what was it then ?

So what would be the recommendation in this instance?

I have horizontally cracked walls but have a neat pattern of red marks in the middle of many of my bricks (every 4 or 5 courses) and there are bigger marks in the mortar -but less of them. I have drilled a hole in the wall but can only see the old fish-tail ties and the fluffy rockwool insulation but no new spiral ties as i was expecting! So, should I see the ends of new spiral wall ties behind the red blobs in the middle of the bricks or are the red blobs (which are slightly below the brick surface and a slightly different colour to the bricks), there for some other reason?

Did you find him in the chopping board? Don't know if I've seen one alive

Very Well spoken roofer!😂

Apologies, the newer ties we show in this video are actually stainless steel not galvanised.