Recent content by Coz

Latest reply from BC : I prefer email as I have a speech impediment and get 'nervous' at times when dealing with people on the phone.

I have emailed the local BC who have basically come back and said it would be cheaper to have a certified electrician deal with all matters of the installation rather than me do the work and have them inspect it! I feel somewhat as though I'm being fobbed off! :evil:

I can answer all those questions if it helps. Would just like an idea before deciding to buy the property, or not. Occupied: No Lift carpets: No Floorboards: Yes Loft boards: No Electric cooker: Yes (gas hob) Electric shower: No Bathroom ext. fan: Yes TV aerial: To be installed...

So anything from £200 - 50,000 :? Not even a ball park figure?

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We're potentially about to purchase a 2 bed bungalow that needs rewiring. I had thought about doing the bulk of the work myself but having read bits of the Part P documentation this is probably unwise! So... how much for a certified electrician to rewire the property for me? 2 beds...

:shock: Really? Then I'll leave it as it is !! Doing that would ruin it, IMHO If you consider each 'drip' on the artex as a miniature inverted mountain the use of the scraper would cause all these to be like table top mountain, not an effect I particularly want. This is why I was originally...

Thanks for the replies. A roller you say, a long-hair one then I guess as the artex has a 'drip' effect. It would lose some of it's effect as the rolling will break off most of the 'points' which in turn will get painted back onto the ceiling. Hmmm... 2 passes I guess, once with a dry...

I've got artex on my ceilings and I would like to paint them. They've never been painted and they are smoke/nicotine free. Any advice on painting them? I did brush paint the small en-suite ceiling and that took ages, now for bigger areas I'm considering using a spray gun. The spray...