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We've had new timber framed windows installed in our terraced house and when I was out on the scaffolding this morning, about to embark on painting the external stone columns and lintels surrounding the windows, I noticed that there are lots of gaps between the stone work and the frames as shown...

Is it plugged in or wired in to the mains where you've installed it Skooby please? Thanks again for your support, it's been very useful.

I didn't use vinyl matt, thanks for the Tesa hint!

Great advice, thank you!

Here's a video of one of the walls I painted 7 days ago, which had the initial 50/50 water/non vinyl matt mist coat. I'm scraping the paint off an area which I'd damaged, so no paint had peeled from here. I wonder whether the experts amongst you, Notadecor, think that this paint has adhered ok...

Thanks so much Notadecor, it is new plaster and yellow frog tape. I put on 1 50/50 water/non vinyl matt paint mist coat first. Should I have used more coats or a different ratio for the mist coat, or both? What would you suggest I do now? My heart sinks when I think of having to remove all that...

Our house has been renovated and I really wanted to decorate, so that I can learn a useful skill and save my husband and I some money. Things have been going well, apart from with the masking tape which has consistently pulled the paint from the newly decorated ceilings. I've been using...

I'm struggling to find a wireless PIR sensor to install outside our bathroom, hence an aesthetically pleasing unit would be preferable, which can wirelessly activate a relay to switch a water pump on. I'd hoped that here might be a good place to ask for assistance in finding these things, so if...

We went for a timer with app functionality which will hopefully allow us the control we want, in a manner which is easily accessible. Thanks again for your advice.

Hi All, having had our wet ufh system installed we now have to angle grind a path in the screed for the conduits in which the floor sensor probes run to lie, before installing the engineered floor above it. We're struggling to find a small enough diameter conduit which will allow us to cut a...

Ian and Dan, thank you gentlemen, you've been really accommodating for which we're very grateful and we hope a solution has been found! We'll speak to our electrician tomorrow and will let you know how we get on.

Thanks again! Using a different electrician would be tricky and he’s been good so far, we just want to help him acquire a solution! It’s not the wiring the pir to the pump that’s the problem, it’s how we prevent activation of the 2nd pir sensor (we have 2 bathrooms upstairs) from turning off the...

Our electrician has suggested that if we have more than 1 PIR sensor wired to the pump that this may be an issue. This, he informed us, is because when the 1st PIR is triggered it activates the pump, but if a 2nd PIR is then triggered shortly after the 1st, for example if people enter both...

Wonderful, thanks Dan.

Thanks Dan. Martin and Des (and yourself of course) have been excellent so far in figuring out solutions, so hopefully they can figure one out! A few questions - Would we need you to install as you're gas registered and I'm not sure Des is? We'd found a Grundfos Comfort pump which is a wee bit...

Thanks, that's good to know. Could I trouble you with one more question please? How do I work out which size pump we need?

Thanks, that's helpful to know. Is there a brand of pump you'd recommend please?

We've just had a boiler and unvented indirect cylinder fitted and the time lag before we get hot water in the loft (the cylinder and boiler are on the ground floor) is sometimes over 1 minute. A secondary return pump has been mentioned to speed things up. Our knowledge is purely theoretical and...

That's very kind Dan. We've apparently got the actuators I've been told.

Haha, perfect Dan thanks. I'll pass on to husband.