Hints and tips:
Patch up the roof, ignore the foundations, feed the hedgies
...Higher building material costs and skill shortages have added to rebuild and repair charges....
...Your Transport for London report (December 19) reminds us all that no one was repairing the roof while the sun was shining....
...But delaying repairs can increase the work and costs later — and the risks of critical failures, such as roofs falling in....
...The DfE will need to bring forward plans to replace or repair buildings with Raac. Repair may not require rebuilding, however....
...State-funded schools and sixth-form colleges bid annually for capital funding to cover vital maintenance work, such as roof repairs and fire safety, through the Condition Improvement Fund (Cif)....
...But repairs don’t garner headlines. No one gets to cut a ribbon on a patched-up roof....
...But Dewe Mathews says she still enjoys pattern seeking, mapping the “constellations” of knot holes on the pitched roof of her bedroom....
...Boasting the biggest glass roof in Europe, “on a sunny day, the effect is incredible”, says François Chatillon, gazing up at the 17,500sq m, barrel-vaulted glass ceiling of Paris’s preeminent pleasure dome...
...A low-slung wooden barn with a corrugated iron roof, it has a terrace, a mural of a sleeping roustabout, a rusting car wreck by the steps, and plenty of ice-cold lager....
...“Repair works are under way,” the company added in a statement. Last week, an air strike temporarily knocked out electricity in parts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city....
...Constructed in 1827 in an L-shape, connecting the city centre thoroughfares of Buchanan Street and Argyle Street, its hammerbeam roof is more reminiscent of a baronial castle than a shopping mall....
...Five uncles and aunts on her father’s side, along with their children, all lived under the same roof....
...Any necessary repairs tend to be deemed a sign of poor workmanship or design....
...In the UK, he said it was predominantly used to construct long flat roofs, where it is more exposed to rainfall that can erode the concrete if it is not properly sealed....
...“There’s a piece of roof we’d like to do,” he says. “It’s a whole big premises; it needs looking after.”...
...The strategic case for the work was approved in 2021, but after five other hospitals were found to have deteriorating concrete roofs that posed a severe safety risk, St Mary’s was told it was no longer at...
...In the report, one solicitor said of a London magistrates’ court: “The walls are falling in, tiles falling off, the roof leaks. Last year sewage came up into the cells.”...
...Nearby units were repair shops, mechanics, drilling contractors, fibreglass suppliers, commercial printers. This was, as Jo called it, “our little home”....
...Especially someone under your own roof. You might be murdered in your bed.”...
...They lie in various states of repair and include an abandoned 13th-century castle....
...Undaunted, he set up a workshop at home and carried out repairs for local jewellers. His break into the watch industry came, when he did some work for Piaget....
...On the roof, Bella is the drinking and dining venue overseen by Israeli super-chef Eyal Shani....
...“There were sections of it that had just gone,” says Moralıoğlu, an avid art collector who has also worked with specialists to restore a water-damaged drawing and repair a torn painting....
...“High risk” is defined as “where repairs/replacement must be addressed with urgent priority in order to prevent catastrophic failure, major disruption to clinical services or deficiencies in safety liable...
International Edition