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All, About 18 months to 2 years ago i had an extension built onto my exisitng house. The existing house is block and beam with air bricks on all sides of the house. It didnt occcur to me at the time but now looking back at some old photos i can see that some of the air bricks have been...

Hello, I have recently had wet underfloor heating installed round the full ground floor and I am still trying to get my head round how best to run it. At the moment, each of the UFH zones is controlled with a Hive thermostat which monitors room temperature and then cuts the UFH in and out as...

Hello, After some advice. I have a house with ufh downstairs and a liquid screed. I saw it being put in and there was 150mm insulation under the screed with 25mm perimeter insulation around edges. Where my floor meets front door, bufolds etc., it feels much colder and gradually gets back to...

Hello, I have my final labc sign off inspection on Monday for a kitchen extension. I have presented the electrical works building regs certificate in advance and the gas safe but wanted to know if the building regs inspector will have an issue if all the light fittings are not yet in place. For...

Yeah I have now adjusted the pump as it was set at constant speed setting 3 (wilo pump). I have changed this to constant pressure setting 2 and now each flow meter is approx 2 - 2.5 l/min for 100m (approx) loops. Temp leaving the manifold is approx 35 degrees. Will see what effect changing the...

Hello, I have a house where the downstairs floor is entirely wet ufh and the upstairs is radiators. The UFH has its own manifold with mixer/thermostatic valve and individual zone controls. The upstairs rads are then on a separate zone. All the system is fed from an ideal vogue system 32...

Had new windows fitted about 12 months ago and finally getting round to decorating one of the rooms. Anyway a chunk of the plaster in the top right corner of the window reveal has come away. What would the best material to back fill this and then fill over with be? The gap at the top where you...

Cheers. Does the MDF need raking out or will it take against a gap like that? Thanks,

Hi, I have built a bulkhead above a kitchen island for extractor etc. out of MDF on a timber frame. Due to the size of the bulkhead i have had to make it out of two sheets of MDF. What would be the best recommended filler for the joint between the two sheets to make it both unnoticeable when...

Hello, I have fitted some coving to my room after plastering. The coving is fixed secure with no movement but where the coving sections join, it looks like a very fine crack has reappeared. What would the best way to stop this coming back be? My thoughts were to rake the crack out slightly...

Hello, I have a tiled bathroom where the porcelain tiles are stuck to plasterboard which is dot and dabbed onto breezeblock inner leaf of the wall. I need to fix a cabinet to the wall and want to know what the recommended plug/fixing would be for this type of wall? I cannot guarantee I can put...

Hello, I have recently had my kitchen freshly plastered. I left the plaster 8 weeks to dry and then went round filling and flattening any cracks and defects before mist coating. For the cracks i raked them out to a 'V' shape with a stanley knife and then filled with easi fill and filled again...

Update Had another go at this tonight. Ripped out the old puck completely and cleaned off all the filler. New puck gone in, checked its secure all over, all joints scrim taped so it's below finished plaster level and then used gyproc easy filler light around the edge of the gap, all screw holes...

Thanks for the reply. I had a suspicion that might be the case. I have raked all the filler out as it's still damp and started again. Would it be best to use something like easi filler light to fill the gap around the edge of the filler piece first, then skim over the top with the toupret...

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this. I have had my kitchen plastered and now are ready for mist coating. Like always, there was something i forgot to do before the plastering was done and i remembered just as the plasterers completed! Anyway, this job involved me using a 150mm...

Hello, I have recently had most of my house replastered. The plasterer has done a very neat job but i notice in most of the window reveals where the plaster either meets the door or the window, there are very fine hairline cracks appearing. They dont move back into the plaster but are more on...

Hi many thanks for the advice. What would you use to seal the plaster?

Wall. The kitchen has been knocked around and then re skimmed. It is in areas where existing wiring chases have been filled with bonding plaster before top skim applied

Hello, I have had a couple of rooms plastered and there are a few hairline cracks as expected. Question is should these be filled before or after mist coating? If I do it before mist coating will this cause the moisture in the filler to be sucked to the plaster and cause filler shrinkage? Thanks

Hello, My house currently has pine skirting boards and architraves which have been stained with some almost orange coloured stain. As you can imagine it is hideous and i want to get rid of it. The skirtings and architraves are all about 20 years old and have been installed since house build...