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    Worrying brickwork discovery

    Undertaking a few tasks on my 76-year-old house, built of double skin ironstone brick. I've noticed that where I have encountered the brickwork of the nner skin, or the outer skin beneath the pebbledash, the mortar is...er...sand. Or what was mortar has turned into sandy stuff. I am minded to...
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    Really bad resin trim job by bathroom fitter

    Thanks Ree. I'm Ok about installing a basin but sadly the space won't stretch....the bathroom fitter advised me to get an 80cm wide Ikea basin and vanity, then managed in his infinite skill to leave a gap 0.5cm too small to fit it. This was on top of the guy failing to put down dustsheets, so my...
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    Really bad resin trim job by bathroom fitter

    Thing is, I'm unsure how the trim could adhere. In places the resin has bonded completely across the gap, leaving nowhere for the 'tail' of the trim to go. And I'm told it's not possible to bond anything on top of resin....although I may have got this wrong?
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    Really bad resin trim job by bathroom fitter

    Hello, it was the arthritis that made me think, treat myself to a tradie to do the upstairs bathroom. Quite the disaster as it turns out, one aspect of which is the very poor job the lad made of the resin on mitred corners. All his choice and advice I hasten to add. He wanted to mitre tiles, not...
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