Recent content by Nickae

Many thanks for the useful info and suggestions. I had thinned the first coat of paint by 10% because that was the instruction on the paint tin. However, it certainly didn't soak into the surface and disappear - is that what is supposed to happen with a mist coat? If so, then I guess the...

Actually, there was a load of that under the floorboards. It weighs a ton, and is hard work removing! I wonder what state it would be in after 60 years under ground...

Well, further to this, I find with a palette knife I am able to cleanly peel of large flakes. Interestingly, the only exception is the area of original damage (in the middle, in the pic below), that I painted over with a single coat yesterday evening. This is properly stuck to the plaster. The...

Thanks for all the replies so far. I unfortunately can't see what the pipe leaving the water meter is - it is more than a metre below ground level, and really the water meter is all I can see, no evidence of the pipe itself. I believe modern houses would have a larger bore MDPE pipe to the...

Hello We had an extension, and I painted one of the new rooms with a coat of Dulux Matt emulsion {edit - thinned by 10%}, followed by another normal coat on the upper half of the walls about 4 hours later. My intention was to mask off horizontally and paint the lower half with a couple of...

Hello all Do you think it is likely that the 15mm rising main in our 1950s-era house would be 15mm pipe all the way back to the water meter at the end of the driveway, or would it be a larger bore pipe, and only step down to 15mm where it entered the house? Background: Following a home...