Recent content by napalm

Don't get paint stripper anywhere near it. The voice of experience speaking!

It seems that often a "black" or "asian" version of things (eg. Police association mentioned previously) is necessary because the rest of the particular establishment is perceived as being the "white" equvalent of such a group

Simple answer is no

These things do seem to have a way of snowballing, from "Well, while we've got the floorboards up..." to "Well, since we've taken down the walls..." Should be moving in on 13/1/05, which fortunately isn't a Friday, so i guess it's only half as unlucky

I had this problem. Turned out the previous owner of my house had messed with the waste, so the trap was between the washing machine waste and the soil, and there was no trap between the sink and soil... I thought it smelled a bit funny. Unlikely to be your problem though, nobody else...

Don't we all! I also like waking up at the crack of Dawn... Carpets are coming up anyway, cos the house was last decorated around 1960, so swirling patterns everywhere, so that won't be a problem. Just got fitting an electric shower and getting the hideous textured ceilings to sort...

My new house has nasty textured ceilings, and i want to get rid of them! The texture is a series of sort of points all over the ceiling, a bit like cake icing gone wrong. How difficult is it to remove this, and what's the best way? Suggestions i've had so far are that skimming over it...

Never said i needed to! The whole house is covered in pipework, not much boxing in etc. From a purely visual point of view, i want to know whether it's easy, or whether there's some really obvious reason not to. The reason the pipes are above the floor is presuambly because the heating...

In a house i am about to buy the rads are supplied by copper pipes running parallel to, and above, the floor (T&G wooden boards). How difficult would it be to replace these pipes with ones located below the floorboards, in the cavity between floor and ceiling? The rads are parallel to the...