Recent content by epatrickt

Scribing and a decent handsaw you mean? My experience of foam is that it goes everywhere and pushes stuff away, expanding for ages. Is there a secret to doing it properly? It’ll grab skirting? It works be nice to avoid having to put bonding in.

that's pretty good thanks! I guess external corners using a simple saw-jig much like shown in the video?

(maybe using a router with some kind of jig? I do have a decent router - no jig though).

Hello - how would you go about accurately cutting 45 degree mitres on 170mm high skirting? I have an old (and cheap and nasty) mitre saw where the arm visibly moves left-right and I have to cut the boards flat which I believe gives rise to potential cupping in the cut. The fancy mitre saws like...

Yes, I think the adhesive has given up rather than the board failing (not 100% though to be honest, can't see it). I'd need to make a series of holes I imagine and squirt in a grab adhesive of some sort? I think the builder used a no-solvent one, maybe that's too feeble for the long-term? I...

Yes, hoping for a different answer! Taking it out is a major job that will mean replacement panels looking different to those on the adjacent walls. Also, disassembly of the shower. Not impossible but not a lovely prospect. That's the only way to go about it? Eugh.

Not quite - no tear. The line you see is the join in the board. Both left and right of the join has come away from the shower tray to about 2/3 up the wall. Was thinking a crude fix of simple silicone over the bottom of the sheet adjacent to the tray just to keep the water out may be all I can...

Thanks for that - good point on the photo, now attached. Not sure how much it shows except to say that on either side of the vertical join the panels have come unstuck from the wall from the shower tray about 2/3 up the wall. You mention lots of products on the market - would you be able to...

Hello - I had the unfortunate experience of pressing against the join in a shower wall panel to see it moving. It's ben in place for about 5 years without problem, installed by a local builder. The join is inside the walk-in shower. Is there a neat way to re-adhere the panel without...

Think I might be stuffed! Thanks for the advice, have got the lever off now (obvious once you've told me!). One of the just crumbled so I need to replace them. They don't look like others I see in the not just taps sure or elsewhere.... Non standard?

Ah that's useful thanks. Getting the lever assembly of though might be where I get stuck! I don't see anything to undo. Would you expect the caps facing outwards on either lever to pop off (with a screwdriver)?

We bought a mixer tap a few years ago and the plastic on the handles has started to crack/fall away. I'm hoping to replace these but am not sure how to remove them. There is no square/hex shaped point to unscrew them so not sure how to set about it. Is it obvious? Hopefully they aren't too far...

Our house has a few roof sections and in their infinite wisdom, over the years, various builders have gone for slightly different sizes. Our lovely neighbours have used an air-rifle to shoot holes in some of them and so we need to get a small number to replace them. They're not standard sizes...

Thanks MM, that is helpful. Some something like the Drayton MiGenie Single would do it I think, from what you say? We'd still have the separate thermostat which I guess we'd have to put somewhere that will never get hotter than the maximum set-point that may be programmed on the control panel...

We've a range cooker controlled by a Honeywell 1-channel 7 day timer (the 1-channel version of ST9400C) and we'd like to add the ability to override the program remotely to turn it on early/late as it takes ages to heat up. I can see lots of questions/answers pointing to thermostatic controllers...