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Many thanks to all those who have given advice during the refurb of the daughter's flat. It is all finished and ready for her to move in. Your wisdom and help has been much appreciated.

Just to say thanks to all the folk who have supplied great advice during the refurb of daughter's flat. Your help has been greatly appreciated.

At last the daughter's flat is complete and ready for her moving in. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has given us help and advice during the refurb. You are all wonderful! Thanks again.

I believe so. We stripped all the paper off the walls and then a professional firm came in to repair, sand down and make the walls sound for painting. It all looked perfect until yesterday. No sign of any problems during the various coats of paint. Any advice on how to repair the wee crack...

In the never- ending saga of the daughter's flat! Walls were sanded down and repaired following wallpaper stripping. All ready for painting. 2 mist coats were applied before 2 coats of Dulux Matt emulsion. Walls inspected between coats ( primarily between final coats as weekend working is...

Flow remains the same in the bathroom but it is/was the one with the problem of hammering after use. Taps were also changed in the bathroom BTW. Will try and check everything out at the weekend. Thanks tincup

I'll check whenI'm next through although I'm pretty sure they are on fully. The running of the hot tap in the bathroom used to result in horrendous hammering in the cylinder cupboard....could this be linked? Thanks again tho'.

I have to say I have no idea if it is suitable for a low pressure system or not. Its a sort of swan neck affair with cold tap on RHS and hot on LHS ( no surprise, eh). I sort of thought the fitters would have advised if it wasn't suitable, but there you go. I suppose we should be grateful that...

Daughter's flat is on one level with hot water cylinder in hall cupboard with water tank on frame above. Pre new kitchen installation there was reasonable hot water flow ( not expecting miracles because all on one level) but since then we have gone from reasonable flow to literal dribble and now...

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated

Thanks very much for the speedy reply, tincup! Can I get that at B+Q etc or do I have to go to a plumbers merchants and buy them by the dozen?

Daughter has bought flat. In kitchen she has had installed washing machine which is cold feed only. Beneath the sink the little feed with the blue 'tap' on it is open to allow the water into the machine. The one with the red 'tap' on is closed as it's not needed....however the threaded base is...

Having been given great advice re. repairing holes in plasterboard, I now seek advice on wall anchor/rawl plugs. Flat has had one of the very old bulky electric storage radiators removed from the wall. It has been replaced with a smaller ( but equally ugly) storage radiator ....at least I...

Can I ask where you got your circles? they are just the sort of thing my daughter would like for creative work in her flat.

Thanks again. What a helpful bunch you are! :D