Recent content by Wandle2

True! Silly of me, I hadn't thought of that.

Thanks for letting me know. They've actually been lying on concrete, underneath a shed, but are quite wet because the rain can get at them.

Thank you very much, JohnD, for your answers!

Can one do this, even if they are have been left out in the rain? We are having a new boiler put in and will need to fill a small gap in the back wall of our house because the old boiler had a much larger flue than the new one. We've been told that we should buy bricks as using the old ones...

Zampa "Paint for new plaster" was just the man in Brewers' description of the paint. What he gave me could not be described as expensive paint. Wandle

Hi there are several breathable emulsions. I think they are the water-based ones, not the ones with vinyl. I used one on my cottage in Sussex, as it's damp and I was told the walls needed to breathe. I'm not in the cottage at the moment, so can't tell you the name, but I got it from my...

Hi Bryan, I had not heard of leadmate but will look in the DIY place we go to. Thanks for telling me about it.

Thanks, Leadman, that's great, just what I wanted to know. The link is helptul too. Cheers. Julia

I am putting back some lead flashing that has come adrift. It is at the juntion of our conservatory roof and the back of the house. A builder put it up years ago and now it needs putting back properly. What I would like to know is, how deep should it be set into the mortar between the bricks...

Thanks. I shall look out for it.

Microporous! That's it. Thank you. I wonder if it says microporous on the tin.

Hi everybody sometime ago I saw a discussion on this forum about the kind of paint that lets wood breath. It had a name but I can't remember what it was. I have to paint three external doors at my seafront cottage in windswept Seaford and I wondered if it would stand up to all that salt and...

Thanks, Joe, I think we'll take both your suggestions - buy it off the Internet and go for the 16mm thickness.

HI Robbie I hadn't thought of that, funnily enough, though I am well aware of the detrimental effect of central heating on wooden furniture. We certainly don't want a perilous ladder, especially as my other half is frequently perched on it at gutter level. I shall be glad to be rid of the...

Hi Breezer, I wasn't ungrateful for your suggestion, I just thought I'd try it out where it didn't matter, as I'm bound to make a bog of it first time!