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Evening all, I've had a nightmare on my last two jobs. The job earlier in the week was the worst. Walls in room covered in what can only be an oil based paint. The reason I say this is becaue I've skimmed silk and eggshell emulsioned walls without problem on more than my fair share of...

Thanks muggles, That's really useful. Yes, there's a braided hose at the bottom. Kinda like a tap connector. From memory there is a little isolation valve down there too - the kind with a little screw in which need to be turned so the slot is inline with the pipework in order to let water...

Cheers MANDATE, Yes, there's a little pressure guage on the top of the fire extinguisher. The needle's currently reading about 1 bar, maybe a wee bit less. There's a length of hosepipe attached to the bottom of the thing. What's a scheider valve? Where about would it be and what sort...

OK, lets see if attaching these pics works? And if it does, see if anyone can make anything of them?

Sorry Ollski, I don't quite understand - are you saying it IS a sealed system? If so, where should I look in order to refill it?

Hi Ollski, There's a sticker on it which says Flexcon (or Flexicon - I can't remember which). I've been round and taken some pics this afternoon but the battery on my Blackberry's just died so I need to get some juice into it before I can start it up again to e-mail the pics to myself and...

BTW, I know it's not really a fire extinguisher lol. I guess it's some sort of pressure relief valve. Does that mean the heating system is sealed?

Lol, good question tipper. He actually shut off the stopcock for the main incoming water supply because he couldn't find any other way of isolating it. He figured, quite logically I guess, that by shutting of the mains, the supply to the heating would also be isolated, sooner or later once the...

Gavinda, YES! There's a big red fire extinguisher type thing a foot or two away from the boiler. Wil try and get some pics in a bit. Not sure how to stick 'em up on here but will try my best.

Jeez Rico that was quick- thanks! Open vented cylinder - I know that much. There's a large water tank in the loft with a 15mm copper supply pipe, a 22mm plastic overflow pipe and a 22mm feed pipe going down to the cylinder. The cylinder has an immersion in as a back up and there's a 22mm...

Morning all, Got a problem with a heating system. A mate drained his system and only managed to get about a bucket of water from the system. Now that's he tried to refill it there is a whole load of air in the system and most of the radiators are only half full and no matter how much...

Thanks for all the replies guys. Went for the chamfering option in the end - doesn't look too bad although not as good as if I had managed to get arc peds but struggled to find any suitable and figured chamfering was less messing around. Thanks again.

Evening all, Just wondering what the best solution to the above situation is? The original architrave around my door is 19mm deep and the skirting I'm fitting is 25mm deep. I don't want to replace the architrave so was wondering what the best solution was? The only two options I can...

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Cheers Mattylad, That's what I thought but wanted to be sure there was no real good reason why the majority of posts on the subject suggested nails or staples other than the obvious additional effort of using screws.

Cheers. I've got an autofeed drywall driver but can't find any collated 20mm screws. Got a shedload of 25mm drywall screws but they won't be strong enough really. Was thinking of buying the wood screws I want and getting one of the lads to sit there when we're quiet and manually stick them into...

Afternoon all, I have uneven floorboards throughout my house and need to do something about them before I have carpet layed. I had toyed with laying hardboard or 4mm ply but after reading here it seems 6mm ply is the preferred option. Now in all posts (including the sticky - very useful...

£1,250 seems closer to the mark. £300 for the ceiling seems cheap - it sounds like a pain in the bum ceiling so £300 labour to fit boards and skim seems reasonable. Might be worth finding out how much they'll charge for materials BEFORE you decide. Many will mark up materials so there may be...

Kingie, Has the plasterer quoting seen the job? If it's a sloping ceiling then I guess some walls are a bit higher than others? Or is 2.5m the highest and some walls are a bit lower than that? The slope, along with the 3 Velux windows will slow the job down slightly which on a smaller...

LOL, of course. Wrong way round. Stupid me. I guess you knew what I meant though.