Recent content by Bewdy

How long before you reckon I can start to work prepping this oil based egg shell which I need to repaint?

I took my scrap piece (third image) to a 3rd party to scan it, as they would have no vested interest in saying it was the same colour. To be fair, when both the emulsion and the eggshell were going on wet, they looked very similar, and then of course the emulsion dried quickly and went darker...

It seems that the sheen of the eggshell on this product is causing the problem, as the two paint colours were tested as being the same. I have bought an Acrylic Durable Matt to try, so hopefully this will get me the results I want. It's quite remarkable the effect of the sheen on the colour...

So today I started putting on some Leyland trade oil based Eggshell, it is supposed to be matched to F&B Hague blue, but when it went on the wood it looked almost green. The walls by comparison are a really nice inky blue. Both colours were mixed on the same machine by the same person. The...

Soda Blasting? That's' a new one for me, I'll check it out thanks. Is the Soda typically carried out by a water solution or is it a powdered pellet?

I’m looking at this property as a development opportunity. It looks like some time ago someone has painted all the Accrington brick, with textured masonry paint and it is starting to come off. The property is by the sea, so presumably it was painted to rectify spalled bricks, I’m thinking it...

Thanks for the reply.

Care to expand on that? Is it a building line issue or 1st storey on a principle elevation the issue?

Hi I have a property and I am looking at the possibility of extending the first floor over a small flat roof garage and porch to the front of the property. The porch and garage currently extends from the front elevation by 2m. Is this likely to require planning, as I am not increasing the...

I’m on a with a renovation project, a complete house, so there’s a lot for me to get through. In the hallway I’ve stripped the paper and found that the last guy appears to have scored the wall in diamond patterns (presumably to strip the paper last time) they’ve made a bit of a mess of the...

Thanks for the reply. We’ve already been out here for 3 months doing renovation work for a charity, painting outside and repointing paving stones so yes it’s hot! But we are getting used to it. The sound of the metal is a good point, I was planning to line it in timber, but they also widely use...

In May I will be building a house in Sri Lanka, we are doing voluntary work out here and we have found a family who desperately needs a home, so we want to build them one. I’m an experienced developer in the UK, having both built from scratch, as well as renovated plenty of properties. I’m very...

Just this week I've had about 20 UPVC Windows fitted. All the windows to the rear of the property ( which we plan to have rendered) have not had trims or sealant fitted, only expanding foam. The installer says this is because the window reveals will be rendered. I'm not convinced. Is it...

The brickwork on the back three walls of our house are very badly spalled and a surveyors has recommended rendering them. They are accrington brick however, so I beleive this poses some problems regarding getting a decent key on the surface. One plasterer had suggested attaching EML mesh...

I don't think so, and there's no visible sagging in the ceiling below. Curiously the bottom of the dip appears to be right in the middle of the room. If it was due to a supporting wall missing I would have thought the sag would have been a bit more one directional? I can't put a support below...