I had this roof re shingled by a handyman 5 years ago but did such a poor job I want to re shingle the whole house. I am dealing with a licensed contractor this time with a BBB is A plus. They are using Cambridge AR shingles so we need to pick a color and we think dual brown will go but what about what about other colours. Maybe driftwood? We tried roof viewer but hard to get true colours off a computer.

Hi All, I have just moved into a new place and previous owners had poured concrete down in the garden. The concrete is all cracked and aesthetically looks quite bad. Wondered if it was simple enough to cover with some nice shingle or some slate chipping. Something tells me, putting shingle on top of concrete isn’t as easy as I may think. Would anybody be able to shed some light on whether this is a good idea or not? Thanks in advance.

Thank you! I should add... the photo doesn’t show it, but the roof is past its time with curling shingles and moisture seeping under, especially bad on the full dormer at the back of the house, The wood siding and shingles are a little beat up, but it’s the cost of painting every few years that has us looking to fiber cement siding. The back and sides of the house are currently a blue gray wood shingle.

If your house is Victorian it's over 100 years old. For most of that 100 years it hasn't had rising damp. If you find the cause of the damp (leaking gutters, pipes or poor drainage) and rectify it you could probably save yourself 1000s. As an example a friend of mine and his neighbour both had damp problems in their Victorian terraces. The neighbour decided to pay a small fortune to have his living room wall "damp proofed". My friend however couldn't afford the work to be carried out on his property so I went round and noticed his gutter was leaking at one of the joints. I went and bought a new bracket which cost about £2 something. Climbed up a ladder ( that was the hardest bit) and replaced the bracket. He gave the wall about a week to dry out with the help of a dehumidifier. And that was it. No more damp problems. (The neighbour also had a leaking gutter.) In conclusion, the Victorians designed houses to be damp free. Later generations removed their damp proofing systems and forgot how to rectify damp problems when they occur. Damp proofing "experts" have built their business model around this.