Recent content by eviliangenius

I never thought of doing that, I'm gonna fill it up when I pop over today and see what happens. Thanks Below is the wall, you can just make out the box at the top of the picture. The mitre is where it leaks from. It was a very slow leak originally until I stripped it back of its foam...

i have a small job on that is giving me a little headache now. 20m square conservatory used as kids play room. customer has moved furniture around and notice large damp patch on wall and rotted window board and skirting. the wall in question is what used to be and outside wall but now dot and...

Thanks roughcaster. Yes scratch coat was well water before top coat, again just water rather than pva. Am I correct using just water? The porch dried quite quickly and may have been to problem but both fireplaces dried a lot slower. To me the crack looks more like shrinkage rather than...

All have been onto blockwork. Plastering sand from travis perkins. From reading different forum I get the impression most like to just soak the blockwork rather than pva so that's what I have been doing. Mix scratch coat and lay on wit my mt stainless trowe, rule off, re-trowel and then...

Hi all. I'm a plasterer by trade and lately have tryed some small rendering jobs 3 fireplaces ready for wood burners and a small porch. All done 5:1:1 scratch coat and 6:1:1 top coat. Prob between 7 and 9mm thick for each coat. Finish up the jobs and they look great and I'm very happy with...

The room will be boarded with duplex, a foil backed plasterboard. This will be the vapour barrier.

Let overlook BC for the purpose of this question :) Both are bedrooms but spare/insisted apart from relative at Christmas birthdays etc. Walls in question are external but unsure of facing direction. They do both have unused but open fireplaces tho that from my point of view will Help...

evening all. currently reboarding a entire house. the house is a Victorian terrace with solid brick walls. under the guidance of kingspan, 3 of the main rooms have been studded out, then boarded with K18 and skimmed. the customer is on a budget and wants 2 of the rooms that are unused...

thanks for that. i presume that means drilling a hole in the tank. can you get kits for making a new feed in the tank, like seals etc thanks for your time ian

evening all. looking for a littel advice please. coming to connect the shower up in our extension i have done. got a mixer pump feeding the shower. already have the hot feed into the pump. now just need the cold. do i just 'T' into a existing copper feed in the loft coming from the loft...

i thought it may be that but wasnt sure. the fan that i have removed has, live neutral and earth. the new one has live neutral and timed :?: ian

as above really folks. whats does the T conection stand for? thanks for your time ian

perfect thanks very much for the quick reply :D ian

just took delivery of my new travistock cloakroom suite. only problem is there are no holes in the bottom of the cistern to fix it to the pan. there are holes in the pan and fixing wing nuts but no holes in the cistern. is this common? i imagine them being a royal pain in the arse to drill...

ok then i stand corrected. is there something about then that can fit this size? thanks ian