Recent content by joebilge

The CH boiler is separate to the hw so it doesn't affect it. The noise occurs once the heating has been on for about 20 minutes. Rather than a clicking its more of a hum, building up to a low trumpeting. is it likely to be some kind of trapped air somewhere?

Sorry, I meant new for me. Its a 1930's semi.

Sorry about the late response (no internet in new house yet). The radiator has the regular old style valves not TRV. It doesn't make much difference if the radiator is on or off; its almost as though the vibration is coming from the pipe under the floorboard (parallel with the radiator). The...

hi, i've just moved into a new house and am having a bit of central heating trouble. Once the central heating has warmed up a noise rather like a car idling appears, localised around an upstairs radiator. I bled the radiator in question which appeared to be mostly air but the noise is still...

Hi, we're helping redecorate a playground for our local school. On one of the walls is an old mural that they want painting over. It has started flaking from the brickwork here and there (though not in a chalky way). We are going to wire brush off as much of the flakeyness as we can before...

cheers very much indeed, I shall try that out today.

Its exterior masonry paint.

If you needed to do a small band of rendering on a wall that was already painted what would be the best way to go about it? There is quite a good depth in the pointing for a key. Would we need to remove all the paint or is there any kind of preparation you could use. Cheers very much

Thats brilliant. Just looked on their website and it seems absolutely perfect. Thanks very much indeed.

Hi there, I'm making some kind of community notice board, which is all going very well. Only I'm having trouble trying to find a sheet of cork board to line it with. Does anyone know where you can buy sheets of it, preferably at least 80cm x 80cm? The closest I have found so far are cork tiles...

If you were building some low brick planters (about 18" high) on tarmac would you take it up first or would it be ok for such a small structure? If it were sloped I assume you would have to take up the tarmac for fear of your planter sliding down the hill, in this case would you just take up the...