Recent content by alfabus

Fair point. To be more accurate; I am committed to doing the gutters (I've hired a scaffold tower, and don't have any other time off work), and I would like to paint the house at the same time. The question on the paint still stands, does oil based textured paint exist? Dave

Hi everyone, I'm committed to painting my house this weekend, whatever the weather. Now that the forecasts are looking bad, I'm considering doing it with Oil/Pliolite based paint, so that it will be rain resistant FAST! I want to do it with textured paint, as there are lots of patches and...

i am planning on going for weatherstruck. i am not in any kind of conservation area, and to be perfectly honest, with the state of most of the houses in my road (particular my neighbours house which has pvc cladding) a slightly different style of mortar is not going to detract from the...

Hi John, He has given us an address locally that i'll go and take a look at.. The bit that concerned me was that he was refusing to use lime mortar to point with. Is cement based mortar OK, should I insist on lime? most of the other posts i have found by searching seem to suggest that I...

Just had a builder come round to quote for repointing the front wall of my 1890s terrace... all of the mortar can be flicked off with a finger, and it is in dire need of repair, some brick faces have blown off. The guy who came round (he spoke to my girlfriend, because i am at work) said...