Recent content by Darran

I'm worried. I've recently heard that you shouldn't PVA plastered walls when planning to tile. Fair enough, I wont add PVA to our newly plastered walls. However, before the plastering, I did add PVA to the one plasterboard wall, which our plasterer has now skim-plastered over. I need to tile...

Mudster (& everyone) I have just stumbled across this very useful forum thread. We've just had our bathroom re-plastered. We're tiling the shower area. Plasterer said to wait a couple of weeks, then PVA, then put tiles up. I've bought BAL Grip water-resistant adhesive, and therefore...

Was putting radiator back on wall, attached pipes, turned spindle to open valve back up and it snapped. Can't open the valve now. Gutted. It's the right-hand lockshield valve on the bathroom radiator (both vavles are lockshield valves). Part of a Combi system. Do I now have to drain the...

Hi My current bathroom hot water piping enters the bathroom on a T joint, with one pipe going right angles to the sink and the other going straight on to the bath. I'm moving the bath towards the sink, and am able to run the bath off the same pipe as the sink. I was just going to cap the...