Recent content by Jolly Roger

Thanks for the further info, Richard C. You've clearly mastered the technique and I shall give it a try. Your detailed reply is much appreciated

Many thanks for the responses. I simply hadn't thought of screwing the boards up to the joists to stabilise them and can try this with relatively little hassle / making good. If I tape over the crack and then skim it what would you recommend and how best would I prepare the surface? The...

We live in a terraced town house about 4 metres wide. On the top floor there is a mild crack that runs from front to back of the house pretty much exactly along the centreline of the house. I reckon the house has heaved and settled a little over the years, so cracking the plaster board which now...

While on the subject, can you "overbond"? To my knowledge the lighting / shaver socket circuit in the bathroom is not bonded. Any harm in doing so to the hot/cold water and central heating pipes? At the end of the day, surely this will guarantee that the Earth of the circuit is at the same...

Thanks for the reply, JohnD. You are quite right - it is the copper tubing I shall be bonding not, not the towel rail, which is plated anyway. My "given" comment was simply acknowledging that bonding is required. I was toying with the idea of taking the flex through the wall ,but think I...

Given that the rail needs bonding, does the bond have to be accessible / available for inspection i.e. not under the floor? Can't see a way round having the tag visible if it does. Also, how far back does the bonding go - to the flex outlet, the RCD...?

The only way to recover any funds is through the official channels - not the news you want to hear, but how it is. While he was running the company you could, in theory, drop round and refuse to leave without your payment. The thing is he no longer does run the company - the receiver, appointed...

I made some exhibition displays at work out of mdf and needed to paint them in the corporate emulsion paint. I "primed" the mdf with a dilute soltuion of PVA glue - probably about 4 parts water to 1 part PVA and the emulsion took to it a treat. The PVA does lift the "grain" of the MDF, so to...

Many thanks for the replies. I think all 4 criteria can be met, though would need to check the ELI. I can see I'll end up with the flex outlet on the wall in the bathroom as it meets convention - it just seemed a chance to remove the connection point out of the room. Also, the mess involved in...

I'm no legal expert, but assuming you can't get this from the builder because he is no longer trading and/or you don't want to hear his voice again, try Companies House (www.companieshouse.gov.uk). If you go to the "find company informatiom" followed by "web check" it will take you to a search...

As already posted, you need to get in contact with the liquidator and make sure that you appear as a creditor. Normally you will have submitted an invoice which you are waiting to receive payment for. If you had tha chap do some work, but agreed he'd refund you the money for some reason, your...

Hi, I have a "summer heating element" to connect to a new towel rail in the bathroom. The supply (via a timer and 30mA RCD fused spur) is the other side of the wall on which the rail is mounted in a bedroom cupboard. Convention would say sink a single gang box in the wall by the rail and use...