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Hello, Can anyone help give advice please? had a new consumer unit fitted and re-wire to kitchen, so everything is on their own fuses. ie. lights, sockets, oven, hob. The problem is - now in the middle of having kitchen units fitted and now told its illegal to have switched socket and...

I'am not a decorator and cannot hang paper, but can usually paint - with undercoat and gloss. I have spent a lot of time dreaming of what I'd like to do with the plasterer :evil: Will never ever use pva again, but after being at wits end and using it on the second room didn't know how to get...

Have since found out that contract matt has latex or pva already added - so perhap's that was the lumps. But yes I agree, having tried crown I think the contract matt only added to the problem with the plaster.

I didn't use a roller at first used a paint brush on the first room ceiling with no pva or anything used, just a 50/50 watered down coat. Have since found out the contract matt has latex or pva already added - perhap's that was the lumps?

Hello, Firstly thank you all very much for your constructive advice :) The contract matt emulsion was bought from a reputable very large builders merchants, told it was good stuff? I had also bought a gallon of crown solo one coat emulsion as a finish coat. Had two rooms plastered...

I have foolishly gone and used PVA as a sealer on the ceiling, and having major problems getting the emulsion to cover, as it's very patchy. Have sanded it tried again, and just sanded it again. Now there are patches of bare plaster, patches of feint white with pink plaster showing through...

Can anyone help? recently had two rooms plastered, one a skim over the other boarded and plastered. The skim over room has had at least 10 week's to dry out, after doing a 50/50 first coat on the boarded ceiling, the paint was not adhering to the plaster. So decided to pva 1-5 parts water on...

Can anyone help? recently had two rooms plastered, one a skim over the other boarded and plastered. The skim over room has had at least 10 week's to dry out, after doing a 50/50 first coat on the boarded ceiling, the paint was not adhering to the plaster. So decided to pva 1-5 parts water on...

Hello, I have managed (with your help) to get some photo's from the pc onto a my album. Could you advise how to get them to show for anyone to pass comment on please? Thanks

Thank you for instructions regarding download of pictures onto site, appreciate your help and will attempt it later this evening. Having taken down more of the ceiling to view, the length of new wire in wall for the hob has been junctioned into old box and old wiring above ceiling height. the...

Thank you very very much for your input, knowledgeable advice and much needed help. The junction box will be hidden and I have raised my uncertainties regarding this, told its the way it was originally? The old cable going into the junction box was the original main oven/cooker point for the...

Hello, Firstly thank you all very much for your quick response and replies, much appreciated. Approx 14months ago, I had the wiring of house checked by electrician with some additional sockets and lights added to the existing wiring also an RCD installed beside the consumer unit, a 17th part...

Hello, Can anyone give some help and much needed advice please, regarding questions listed below. How could I tell if electrical work had just been connected up to old existing junction boxes? when quoted for new ring mains. Had one existing cooker switched socket in kitchen, with a...

Hello, Can anyone give some help and much needed advice please, regarding questions listed below. How could I tell if electrical work had just been connected up to old existing junction boxes? when quoted for new ring mains. Had one existing cooker switched socket in kitchen, with a...

1)Can anyone help? If flies are in a loft especially in winter is it a sign of something dead in loft? OR are there such named blow-bluebottle flies that hibernate in lofts supposedly not serious or damaging? Any help on getting rid would be appreciated 2)Also, marks in floorboards, how...