Recent content by Lunasa

I'm currently looking at getting my fireplace re-done... The better retailers I've talked to include the price of installing in the cost of the fireplace, so you may want to check into that. There will definately have to be some plastering done when the new one goes in, so they will take care...

You should be careful there, *she's* living in Dublin, but she's not a Dub. :) I'm not sure what rendered backing coat is, but we probably don't have it. We were forced to take the plaster off the hallway (due to the extreme uglyness of the plaster 50's bar effect on the wall) and it came...

Wait a minute, you're the guy who did my kitchen wall, aren't you??? :shock: I'm in a *lovely* overpriced ex-council estate in Dublin... A bit of a ways from Castlebar. So a month, I should expect it'll probably take twice that, and cost double too... or at least that seems to be the...

All good advice, since last time I had to get plaster work done I had a friend of a friend who's a labourer do it. BAD IDEA :shock: , and he didn't get paid! :wink: I'll also be sure to get all my little problems addressed... there's a second room we might get done. Eventually they're all...

Ok, the story is that we're re-decorating the sitting room... New fireplace, carpets, and hopefully no woodchip wallpaper. That's where the problem is: under the wallpaper the walls are bad. The plaster is obviously coming away from the walls in spots, other places it's already gone (I can...

Chilly is a very subjective term... I thought it was chilly there, until I went west. One day christmas week it was -51 out west. Where I'm from, it's more like -5! The dogs are big, but they're not that big! :shock:

I'm from eastern Canada originally. It's not such a bad place :)

Thanks all, that's what I thought, but I wasn't about to do it without checking it out first - I don't want to be wrong on this sort of thing! Now that I'm going to be re-wiring (and thanks, Paul C for the colour coding, that's what I was looking for when I stumbled across this message board)...

To me, this seems like a stupid question, so please be patient to someone who's not an electrician. I've moved from North America to Ireland, and brought with me a laptop computer. The computer has a 120W dual voltage power adapter with a NA plug, so I've bought an adapter for the plug...