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crikey, what's my best plan of action. This electrician wants to do a second fix on the loft conversion asap and then leave everything else in the house til after the plasterers. Is anyone saying that this is potentially dangerous? I have two children to consider. :cry:

The private building inspector passed it. I asked him about conduit and he just said that some electricians use it and others don't bother because it really is only to stop a nail going in. I have checked throughout the house if that could ever be a problem and it really looks like that we...

I just uploaded them to an album - are you able to look through the album?

I have just posted some photos but couldn't get them under any other folder than loft conversion plastering.

I didn't agree anything in writing because he came with the loft conversion company so we just used him for the whole of the house whilst he was there. The brick is Akrington brick and yes, there is a brick's worth and a bit of hole size through from the kitchen to the dining room in two places...

Hi, is it up to the electrician these days to brick up where they have left holes in interior walls? My electrician's employee has just shoved a piece of wood in where he's gone through the brick and on one socket there is a really loose piece of brick and you can see from one room through to...

Plumber and electrician have cut through joists and left our floorboards in a right 2 and 8. A joiner is in right now to sort the floorboards out. A builder who was in quoting today (this is a renovation project) said he would glue flat metal plates over the pipework/wires and then put...

It's a mess basically in what will be the kitchen. It's been two rooms - one with wooden floorboards about 3" wide and the other where we have had the tiles hacked off leaving what looks like concrete - the wall was knocked down between these two rooms so there is now about a 4" gap of nothing...

Renovating a house - choosing Karndean for the kitchen but not sure what to do about the bathroom as want to tile the walls. Any advice / experience appreciated. :)

Hi, just had a loft conversion done and when I mentioned at the start that I might want to use council building inspectors the company we'd signed a contract with threw their dummy out the pram and starting pulling the builder off the job. Loft conversion looks very smart and fine really. They...

Could anyone recommend a certain make and sizes of insulation board for the interior of a 1938 Akrington brick built detached house? We can't have CWI and every room needs ceilings boarding and walls skimming. The bathroom is back to bare brick as is much of the kitchen - does this get...

I met with the Site Manager today who says the plasterer explained that they dot and dabbed the bit that sounds blown and that's why it's making the same noise as if old plaster. They explained that if plasterboarded between old bits and newer bits, the space tapped between the dot and dab can...

Hi, I have had trouble juggling the kids and possibly being a female knowing more than the average female bear about a few things because I have already done a lot of work on a house. I have done minor plastering jobs, tiled, sanded floors, painted and decorated and cut and put skirting boards...

thanks for your reply. However, I stood in front of them and said that the blown plaster would need taking off and this big guy said it didn't and that they would bond it and it would be fine. I felt really intimidated and he just ignored me completely and now it sounds hollow. I am looking...

Tape was showing so they patched that bit. Put boarding on a wall and then told me the wall is wonky and it doesn't match the doorway. Plastered over blown plaster when I asked them to take the blown plaster off. Said bonding it would be good enough. Now I can tap it and it sounds blown to 6...

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