Recent content by swilco

had a look behind some of the existing plaseter and it's very very old 'clinker' taht just falls off to expose the brickwork - would i need to coat the brickwork / insulate / whatever before putting on the plasterboard - probably a daft question but ...

I'm about to tackle my bathroom which is half tiled by very old mosaic tiles. The plaster is also very old and cracked and I'm sure that any attempt to remove the tiles will pull most of the plaster off the wall. One option I was thinking about was simply plasterboarding over the entire wall to...

thats what i thought .... thanks

Came back from holiday yesterday - turned on the heating - all fine .. left it on overnight .. this morning the upstairs rads are all nice and hot the downstairs are cold. Bled all the downstairs ones ... some were gummed up and no air came out of the bleed valve until i stuck a pin in it ...

You are a genius! Thank you! Did as you suggested ..tiny two second puff of air, replaced screw, valves open .. radiators all suddenly working again .... but why??? I don't understand!

Help ..... My downstairs radiators suddenly decided to pack in this evening. Have an open system with an Ideal RS250 boiler. Upstairs is all fine, hot water is all fine ... pump seems OK .. have bled all radiators and pump to no avail. Sytem has never been properly balanced since I...