Bubblecar said:

Builder’s been and will send a report to the estate agents.

Giant of a man but very friendly. I’m just over 183cm and only reach his shoulder.

He thinks only one half of the bedroom floor will need replacing and it’ll be a day job. He suspects “rising damp” and rotten joists etc. No idea at this stage when the work will be done.

He had an impressive app on his phone that allowed him to quickly scan the room and immediately generate a 3-D map of it with all measurements.

Good. Gosh, that is huge.

What did he say about the flue/bird problem?