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Hello, are there any lead fitters out there? . We are looking for someone who can fit lead to a soffit and facia, facia is 340mm x 7600mm. Soffit is 6400mm x 500mm and 1250mm x 1400mm But both sections of soffit are connected. We were imagining using thin lead and gluing it. Anyone here who could do this? Please message if so...

Hello, Is there anyone on here who can fit safety flooring? It's the sort you see in Hospitals that. curves sightly up walls. Please do message or reply if so.

Hello, We need some ply to have a veneer added to it. Does anyone here know someone who does that? Please do message me if so! Best Matt

Hi all, I would just like to give a recommendation for Rhys Owen of Pensaer architecture: https://www.pensaer.london/ [email protected] As builders we have worked on a number of Pensaer projects. What we like is the design touches that make for interesting projects. From Bathrooms and Garden makeovers with a wow factor to extensions. Our most recent project with Pensaer was a low carbon build where we swapped out high carbon items for low impact alternatives. (concrete and Steel for 80% lower carbon footings and GluLam. Structural block walls swapped for structural timber for a 2 story extension... Rhys and his team are really nice people and attentive when there are issues to be resolved - which of course there always are! I thoroughly recommend them as a firm.

Just recommending AMENG Structural engineers for your projects large and small. EG: Wall removals, Chimney removals, Extension structural packages Loft conversion structural designs and so on... Alan McVicar is a decent chap and does unfussy designs that are easy to understand. I can recommend! Alan McVicar ‭07769 678982‬ [email protected]

Dear?EastDulwich001 I am truly sorry for the experience you had. I completely?accept that the work was well below our standard.?Due to too much work I passed this job onto a?subcontractor.?A decision I deeply regret and take full responsibility for. I know how difficult?it is to find someone you can trust to work on your home?and?I have spent years developing a capable and experienced team so as to minimise?potential?complications. Unfortunately, sometimes things do?go wrong and, if this happens,?we always want to put them right. I?did offer?to rectify this work at my own expense, which you declined. I understand and respect that choice as your bad?experience broke the trust you had in us. I do feel professionally frustrated?that we weren?t able to resolve?this. In response to this experience we no longer use subcontractors and have reduced our workload so as to be able to maintain standards. This obviously doesn?t resolve things for you and?I apologise unreservedly to you for the stress that this must have caused. The offer is still open...

Dear all, East Dulwich Forum Legal Hive mind...... If a company is contracted out to do works, can a resident refuse to allow them to continue - where that resident has not made the contract? Details: A friend of mine is a leaseholder and has been presented with a charge for maintenance and renovation works.... The contract for the works is between a social housing management company and the contractor. I am a builder and the charges he mentioned I know to be ?500% above competitive market rates on average. The charge Flat roof repair using a fibreglass system is 800% more than market rates... So, Both the Leaseholders and the social housing company will have to pay massively over the odds if the works continue. I have flagged this with officers in the department, flagged it with various councillors. Question for the Hive mind: Is there a legal way a tenant or leaseholder can refuse to let third party contractors onto their property? Second. Where the faulty works have caused water damage, can this be grounds for tenants refusing to let contractors on their premises?

Flat roof quote request. Hi there, For any roofing contractors out there, can you please send an indicative quote or initial estimate for the following? Renewal of a flat roof using a liquid system. https://www.tecnopolgroup.com/gama-desmopol This is for 10 flat roofs. I would like a quote/ indiciative estimate for one roof please. 4x6m. Please assume the following. Scaffold access is already provided, That you will remove the existing surface to the underlying framing, Secure down sterling board, apply the liquid system. Ensuring that flows to the drain are correctly maintained. Finish with lead flashing all around. An indicative materials quote is attached. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in quoting.

Hello, I have a tricky building conundrum and wanted to ask the advice of Structural engineer/ fellow builders/ Steelworkers/ carpenters.. On our current build the architect has designed some external decorative fins - 200m x 50m x 3m long vertically. Either side of the sliding doors they will be fixed to brickwork - which would avoid warping issues. However in front of the Sliding door - half of it, the fins will be placed vertically at 350mm centres. I'm reliably informed by the guys at Whitten timber that they will be subject to warping at this length - even if only 2200mm is in front of the glazing. The client has specified American/European oak. At present I am thinking of some kind of sheet steel with re-enforced bars welded to the inside to make lightweight rectangular columns - then clad this in thinner sections of the oak all around (the outside section of the steel must be partly open to allow the possibility of fixing through to the brickwork using chemfix). Alternatively we could possibly use WBP ply and clad in Oak.... Could anyone recommend a system? Any Advice? I want it to look spanking in the end and I don't like having to return to things that have gone wrong.

Hi there all, I am looking for a garage to rent inthe area or just outside. I'm looking in: East Dulwich, Honor Oak, Peckham, Nunhead... Do you have one you would consider renting or know of one? If so please do comment or send me a PM. Many thanks, Matt

This is my Big Shout out for a local decorator, Peter Alan Morris. Pete is an excellent decorator who is clean, tidy, circumspect, able to identify problems and has a keen eye for detail. Pete has worked on many projects with me over the years and I can thoroughly recommend him as a great decorator. As an example Pete helped to renovate some massively rotten windows that really should have been replaced. Not only did they get renovated well, they are still fine well over 17 years later and no one has had to re do them. That?s a testament to dedication to a task. If you are looking for someone who takes their work seriously then Pete is your man. You can reach him on: +44 7946 709120 I am happy to answer any questions you may have if you want to send me a PM.

Party Wall award question... Hello, we are a building company and are constructing in a side alley and abutting a neighbours house wall. Hyde Housing own next door. To avoid Thames water drain issues and a long party wall process. I designed a cantilevered system so there is no weight or fixings on the neighbour?s wall or the drain below. So the party wall stuff amounts to weathering - fitting lead to prevent any stuff damaging either property. My surveyor is going to charge me effectively full surveyor fees to make the party wall letter of ?1800. For grinding in a bit of lead into the neighbours wall. The cantilevered system is made so there are no fixings to the neighbour?s wall. So my client is being charged ?1800 for a drawing, few photos and a letter referring to a law.. Hyde?s surveyor will no doubt charge the same. So its ?3600 for lead flashing. To be honest, although this is not my cost, it makes me really angry. What is this?? This is half a day?s work for our surveyor: a draughtsman takes measurements i provide, surveyor writes a letter. ?1800. The other surveyor takes some pictures, reads the report. Writes a letter. ?1800. What can i do about this? As i understand it there is no legal requirement for a party wall surveyor to be qualified. Which means i could get anyone to do the stuff for my client. Pay them a couple of hundred. Then my client only gets stung by Hyde's Surveyor. Am i correct?

Hello, Here i am recommending Andrew for bespoke Coving and ceiling roses - both manufacture and installation. I came across Andrew on a job we were both working on a long time ago - saw the quality of his work and took his number to recommend to my clients - i run a construction company. Andrews work is first rate and he does his work in a manner that leaves us no making good to do after him. Excellent attention to detail and first rate quality installation. Andrew also makes coving to order so he can show you his samples, or repair existing coving, or fit your client supply coving. I thoroughly recommend him . Both to householders and fellow builders who want a quality installation to compliment their work. His Contact details are: Andrew 07958217755 [email protected] www.holmesplastercraft.com

Scaffolders!! If anyone wants to earn ?160 today for an hours work taking down some scaffold and removing it to my house from a site let me know. This afternoon/evening only. You will need your tools and a van to ship it to mine. My scaffolder cannot take it down so i have agreed to store it in my garden for him for a couple of days. It has to go today.. Text me: 07939530699 Matt

The scaffolding firm I am using on the loft conversion we are about to finish has failed repeatedly to take it down. With the rain, this is now damaging the building. Does anyone know any storage yards i could store it in? We would pay of course. Plus i also need someone to take it down too. Please call me if you do. Thanks in advance, Matt 07939530699