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Thanks for the recommendations. I will give them a go.

Can anyone recommend a good paintable exterior sealant for window frames? I am using Dulux Weathershield All Seasons (solvent based paint). Thanks.

Hello all, Posted this on the decorating forum but might get more joy here. I am in the process of doing up my concrete sills. They were in a really bad state with all the years of paint flaking off so I am stripping it all off. I have done most of it with a heat gun. I had pvc windows...

thanks endecopt

Btw, I was planning to use Dulux Weathershield All Seasons Masonry Paint.

Hello all, I am in the process of doing up my concrete sills. They were in a really bad state with all the years of paint flaking off so I am stripping it all off. I have done most of it with a heat gun. I had pvc windows installed a few years ago and the installers seem to have used silicon to...

Thanks Thatbloke. That would be the wise approach. I haven't had time to try the wire wool yet but i get the feeling it will hardly touch it. Would i be right in thinking that there were cast iron fireplaces made with varying quality? Some big ornated expensive ones with a nice smooth quality...

Hello, I just got a cast iron fireplace dipped and stripped of all its old paint with a view to putting it into my living room. It hasn't come up as well as i had hoped. there are still small traces of paint on parts so i'm going to take nitromorse and wire wool to those parts. But it's...

Hello Joe. I'm hoping the door will still attach to the wall so i have a surface to run the tile backer into. If the door doesn't stretch to the wall, i'll have to run the tilebacker on a couple more inches and attach the door to it. But this means i will have the front vertical edge of...

Hopefully some one can help me. The shower tray is in place and i have to now tile the walls and attach the door. Problem is the corner formed by the walls is bigger than aright angle (seems to be a fairly common problem). It runs out by full 1cm at the front edge of the tray. I realise...

I'll be doing that too. I take it any of that grit that got into the hot water tank would just settle at the bottom and do no harm?

Thanks for the replies jonjb and Agile. Update: I went home last night and started by just opening up the shower head. After a few shakes a load of black gritty stuff fell out, so the pressure is immediately improved. I turned my attention to the toilet cistern and dismantled the inlet...

Sounds like theres no clear and simple fix here!

It would only really be the mains cold water feed to the basin that i would want to control. ALL the other feeds just seem rubish son i wouldn't want to restrict them any further! Do you reckon if i repaced the the Bath/shower mixer with one that worked at around 0.2 bar would there be any...

Also, if i was to put a valve on to the mains fed cold in order to balance it with the hot, would it have any impact on the hot flow? or would i just be making both hot and cold very slow? (if that makes sense?!)