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Will be starting this in the next few days, removing peeling paint from the shower room, new skim of plaster and repaint. I'm a novice when it comes to plastering and want the ready mixed kind for quickness and ease of use. What would be the most suitable ready mixed plaster for a shower room...

Cheers, no electric sockets on the walls either side, hot water tank in other room in a cupboard but pipework runs underneath that. Removed a fitted wardrobe, so got a rough idea where the studs are,

Moving a TV that I fixed to to a brick wall. Now the wife wants it moved to the other wall, which is plasterboard and the wall seperates two rooms. Now of course ideally it goes into the joists but in the off chance that I miss them, how thick is the wall that seperates the two rooms? The house...

Another question. Regarding putting on a mist coat over the plaster, thought I had white matt but turns out it's silk, however I do have a tin of matt but not white. Is it best to use the matt or can I get away with the silk. Cheers

It's paint for the most part, plasterboard where I went a bit rough with the scraper. Going to fill in the plasterboard bits, sand ituse Peel Stop to prime then mist coat and repaint and hopefully that'll work. Unlees you guys could suggest something else.

It's always been water based, variations of bathroom, anti mould paint. Always painted over existing without issues until now.

The pics are above the door and at the corner, but in future, keeping the window closed should help?

Any idea why condensation would cause this after all this time?

Few months back wife decides it's time for the en suite to be painted again, used the usual Dulux bathroom paint as have done the previous 3 or 4 times it has been done. This time though, the paint has started to crack and peel. Sanded off the cracked paint (didn't fill it) repainted and it's...

Cheers bud, all sorted, took less than a minute to fix.

Correct me if i'm (which I probably am). Will the spring just not go back to the original position if there is nothing to lock it?

Just going by a few videos that I watched, securing the spring by tightening grub screws

Going to have a crack at this over the weekend. Just to check. Take tension off the spring via rods/grips Do I tighten grub screws to stop spring springing back to original postition Realign cable. Restension spring and retighten grub screws. Cheers

Haven't got round to doing it as yet, but out of curiosity, why lock the spring in place when i'm not touching it. Does loosening the cog not have anything to do with the spring which is about 1mtr from the cog?

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