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How about water leak detection tablets - dye the water in one area ( in this case a limited area on the side of your chimney) and wait ..... I've used my Thermal imaging camera to discover leaks before now - the water lowers the temperature locally I'd be tempted to take this short plank out and have a little look-see.....

Ladies and gentlemen - I give you Lancashire's Whirling Dervish. @nod If someone gave him enough money, he'd solve the housing crisis on his own.

Photos would help us devise a strategy with you.....

Well, Richard, good to see you've found us at last. Vive la difference!

Good advice. BUT When we did a similar exercise (narrow single lane track) , the rig driver could not have cared less about the documentation we offered him (via his company office). He arrived with the rig, looked at the couple of really tight corners, - sniffed - spat - and muttered about him having forgotten his stone saw. "Why do you need one ?" I (stupidly) asked "That road sign's gonna have to come down" I ran and fetched ours. Didn't need it. Heres' the rig. Made in Germany by Zeppelin - yes, thats right, you couldn't make it up...... airships and piling rigs

In haste ... similar though maybe not so severe an access challenge. I've written about our piling in detail: quick site search will do. Bottom line - ground improvement columns - Town and Country Vibro. Very professional approach £6500, 52 piles. £70k is a try-on

Great. I'm not at all jealous. Nope, not one little bit. More workshop indeed - phhhh more workshop. 😑

Welcome back. Went for a walk at the back of your place recently. To celebrate my new hips. Our flat roof was going to be a green roof. The more we looked at the issue the higher the costs went. Until we covered our eyes with our hands and dared peek at the numbers no longer. We are surrounded by eco roofs (leisure center - university is full of them ) My God they can look tatty after a while. Anyway. Nice to see you both back. ( That garage used for your car yet? 😜)

Hummm.... Morning, welcome. Have a look at most posts .... they're about renovation and repair. I mean all you have to do is follow @Pocster or @Onoff or @Jilly (😑) to see that. By far the most people who land on this site do nothing more than read... Or lurk. Whats the last thing you repaired then? 'Eere, I've an idea - have you every mended walk-on glazing : cos one of our guys needed a bit of help with that 😜

Now he tells me ... 6 years bloody late.

Hello GTM_88 I've lived aboard boats - usually ex-MFVs - in the 1970s. The only way I (we) found to keep things 'straight' was to throw masses of heat at the problem, and have a similarly massive through-put of air. That way books didn't go mouldy, and shoe leather retained a passably polished sheen. Hence the several tonnes of coal in the bilges, and two iron stoves. A Webasto diesel heater in the Dog House helped too. Wimmin : all - each and every one - who came aboard for any length of time always complained about the draught. One way of dealing with CO and CO2. Nowt to be done about the ducks hammering the weed off the waterline though.

An anonymised image from Google Maps ( or Earth) with an indication of scale will help us help you.

Cold roof design Cold vs Warm roof

How much of an issue? Faced with a (possibly) analogous problem (if the issue isn't too 'large') , we built a water garden. Since building it, all the rainwater off both sides of the roof just disappears. Cost £200 ish .... including the digger. Insterested? Search SUDS> Rain garden. Loads of nice designs. Not much space needed at all.

Center of our place is vaulted. Brilliant. Pain in the Botticelli to dust and clean.