Recent content by skyblob

I've bought myself 50M^2 of filled travertine 600 x 400 and am gearing up to fit. I haven't laid tiles this big before. Any comments on the following would be appreciated. Concrete base, screed is 6 months old, slab 1 year. I may pour a little SLC in places, but mostly it's OK. I am not...

Well it's from a ex-MOD base and the sink was made in Glascow in Feb 1939. I expect the MOD weren't into "Repro" but you never know :) I'll try the anti-limescale some more. I can't figure out how this thing would stay in, It's ceramic button into brass, so unless there is some sort of...

I have got here a nice old sink tap with ceramic hot/cold indicator. I need to replace the gland packing but can't get the ceramic button off the top. Small screwdriver is applied gently all round but it's not budging. Any more force will definitely crack the ceramic which would spoil it...

Well I can report to anyone interested. Get a garden 5 litre lance water sprayer. Someone (Mrs S did a fine job) directs water spray directly onto the downward cutting blade of the 9" diamond wheel. Result was 4M long trench through 3" screed with (dare I say) hardly any dust! I did...

Thanks Jeds. At least I'm not the only one who thought it worth a try! On the upside, I'd guess a "puddle" might remain on a floor whereras it runs off your wall! Watch this space then. Otherwise I guess I'd probably better rent a wet floor cutter. Rgds

I need to cut a floor channel in screed (inhabited house). I have an adequate 9" grinder and diamond wheel. I am considering asking Mrs Skyblob to squirt water on the advancing blade side as I cut. Electrics and water notwithstanding, am I likely to reduce the dust problem this way? Any...

Hi Muggles. Its a Buildnet 2 section column rad http://www.buildnet.co.uk/Category/94-2-sections.aspx Nothing much help on the website except a photo with both pipes at bottom. I'll give them a ring tomorrow. Teeny scrap of paper enclosed shows one pipe connected high, but judging by the rest...

Thanks Muggles. There is no widget, I just looked and can see clean through the holes, both ends the same. Nothing obvious inside. Perhaps I'll ask the supplier. Rgds

I have 3 new rads to fit in what will be a new system. These are 300mm wide, 1500 tall, vertical tubes, double. It's such a short distance across the 300 width, I can't help wondering if the hot water will all go up as it should, or some might shoot straight across to the return, and reduce the...

Hi Guys, thanks for the opinions. No unusual loads. Here we are: [/url] Lintel1 by mountaincarrot, on Flickr [/img] I'll probably get a steel angle in there then, save removing bricks from the top which might disurb things more. If the flat part is less than the full depth of the...

Close to finishing extension job. Needing removal of original front door+sidelight (now internal) to open up. 1972 standard brick house. Having just taken the frame out, I was shocked to see no external lintel has been fitted! Door frame was holding up the external brickwork and was built in...

Thanks Mysteryman. I have been looking at the Vallant Ecotec (pipes on top) and Worcester Bosch Greenstar Ri (pipes underneath - but with a little internal air vent tube in the boiler).

Thanks for that. Almost there then. "But you don't want it going downhill on the way".. Is this so critical? The pipes come out of the bottom of many boilers, so they must go downhill by definitin - at least a little anyway. This boiler will be mounted at low level kitchen cupboard and...

Single storey kitchen extension where a new open vent boiler is planned for the outside wall. (Old 1970's boiler in centre of house has no drain, and inappropriate concrete flue inside wall, so will be abandoned) I want to stick with open vent system. Am planning to put pump and S plan...