Recent content by fredlike

Thanks all I like the sound of that. I actually ran into a youtube video of somebody doing this yesterday (trimming out plasterboard to fit batten flush with surface), but damned if I can find it now. There seems to be about 2.5 cm of plasterboard followed by 4.5 cm gap before something...

Here's a photo of part of one of the panels: and part of this morning's harvest of the soft material that fell from it: This lump doesn't look much like moss, but it's the same stuff as before. It's maybe 2 x 3 mm in diameter at most. I guess it's something like foam rubber that...

My windows

Hi I have a curtain rail to put up on a bay window but it seems there's just a thin plasterboard strip a couple of inches tall to attach it to. Since the brackets are quite long I'd rather not use plasterboard fixings since I think they might put too much load on the board. So, I thought...

Hi Above my bay window frames are PVC panels. They're about 3" / 7.5 cm high. The caulking between them and the frame has yellowed and moulded, and has come away during cleaning in some cases, some of them bow outwards in the middle a bit, and whatever was behind them has disintegrated...