Recent content by patagonia

I think it's both, but my question was whether it's worth paying extra for the trade version; they say it's much better quality but is it?

My daughter needs some Dulux paint for interior decoration and can't get from usual supplier so I asked my local supplier who only do Dulux trade which they mix themselves but the price is very much more expensive. They say it is also very much better. Is it worth the difference and why was...

Thanks, all. Difficult to know what to try for the best. Opps is probably right but things have gone too far for that. The other walls are finished and looking good and the problem one has had the first coat so I'd like to take a chance on filling this gap over the trunking and see if we can...

Many thanks. It wasn't the plaster which had bubbled in most cases; it was the paint, which suggests that he either hadn't sanded, dusted or washed down sufficiently well after removing the wallpaper and in particular the boarder or mist coated where he had done filling or had applied too thick...

About 10 years ago I had most of my house professionally decorated and I am pretty sure Dulux brilliant white eggshell was used for the woodwork. It still looks great, the same as it did when completed, lovely finish, covers well, doesn't show irregularities and has not yellowed at all. I am...

My handyman is decorating a small bedroom for me. It had wallpaper on the lower half of the walls, finished with a border, all of which was stripped off. The area which had been papered was rubbed down with sandpaper, washed down and filled as necessary, filler rubbed down with fine sandpaper...

After stripping off old wallpaper, is it necessary to coat with Zinsser before painting with emulsion paint or will a good washdown with sugarsoap do?

patagonia wrote: Should one be able to feel any air coming out through the exterior grille? Saladfingers wrote: If you mean when the fan is on and you're feeling from the outside, yes. Well, I can't feel anything. Cd be there's a blockage or duct is squashed (must be rather an acute...

Should one be able to feel any air coming out through the exterior grille?

So we should leave the bathroom door open then and let the smells and steam drift into the hall? The fan is immediately above the window which is one large one (no little one at the top) so I wouldn't want that open while I was in the bath in the winter. It does have a timer and seems to run...

Are there any bathroom fans which remove steam and smells? Are some better than others? When we moved to this house we noticed the fan in the bathroom ceiling (close to the cornice and outside wall) didn't seem to cope with the steam when bathing or bathroom smells so my son-in-law bought a...

Not sure who put it in as it was done before we moved in. My cleaner thought it was one of those I phoned but it didn't seem to ring any bells with them. Certainly wouldn't have been BG as it was done when the property was extended when a completely separate system was put in for the new bit...

I/m certainly not planning to do anything myself. As I said, I've drawn a blank with all the locals; they say they are all too busy if they get back to me at all. None of the neighbours has anyone they can particularly recommend but I have tried all the names mentioned, which is why I was...

Thanks for replies. I presume you mean a Magnaclean, which I had had in mind. Does the system still need an inhibitor? And do you think I should call in BG?

I also have problems with radiators not getting hot enough and the cylinder doesn't get up to the right water temperature even after being on for nearly 3 hours. (How long should a cylinder take to heat from cold?) I am having difficulty getting any local heating engineers in so considering...