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hello,,,ive always used homebase home of colour none drip gloss,,,its always been fine and easy to use,,,I bought a tin the other day what I thought was the same stuff but on using it realised it was absolute rubbish,,,just couldn't work it,,,kept coagulating etc,,,impossible to use,,,so when I...

ended up getting a tin of Zinsser cover stain and it worked fine once I got the hang of rolling with an oil based paint,,,first time ive used an oil based paint for walls and must say im in love with it,,,i can finally paint without leaving shadows,,,im thinking oil based paint is the way to go...

the two coats of vinyl paint on the original plaster are very thin and the patches or edges wouldn't be noticed after a couple of coats in my opinion,,,the problem is going to be edges lifting and bubbles coming up from the original paint once it gets moist from the new paint,,,all this ofcourse...

that's what I was thinking myself mate,,,cheers

anybody,,,???

ive had this trouble before in an extension we built,,,you could try painting it with a flexible paint,,,like a latex paint such as silk or vinyl,,,latex paints have enough flex not to show fine cracks...

Hello,,,ive just sanded down my stairwell which was a bit of a chew on,,,it had been painted with some kind of latex paint i think straight onto the plaster,,,anyway as you can see on the picture some of it on the plasterboard wall have flaked off when ive sanded,,,so i was wondering what is the...

thanks for the reply,,,I thought it might be vermiculite from what id read somewhere but wasn't sure,,,it says on the report artex, textured coating, and n.a.d.i.s beside it,,,no asbestos detected in sample,,,i got it done at ist risk management, chorley…...

hello, recently been removing some artex with a scraper and water, came off a treat after being wiped with water a few times, anyway I had the stuff analised before I touched it and it came back clear, so no asbestos in it, after washing my clothes that's id been wearing I noticed that they have...

aye,,,they checked the calipers mate and said they were fine,,,stripped the pads out and wound the pistons in a few times,,,I thought that the one disc that looked knackered had a sticky caliper and that the front discs looked fine,,,but when the lad had it stripped off he showed me the insides...

it was the discs,,,i took it to kwik fit for a free check the other day,,,the lad stripped the calipers and showed me the the discs,,,the outsides looked fine the insides were a different matter,,,needs new discs and pads all round,,,i nearly fell of me chair when they gave me a price to do...

almost certain its from the back mate,,,the discs on the front look recent and in good condition,,,its just the one rear disc on the car that looks in bad shape...

hello,,,i have a ford focus estate 2010 1.6 diesel and the rear brakes recently started giving a sort of scraping sound when pressed,,,i automatically thought the pads were worn down and the steel was starting to come through and touch the disc,,,so I checked the pads and they were fine,,,i put...

hello,,,I viewed a property today and it had an electric heating system,,,a heatrae sadia amptec,,,like a long white box with a pressure tank and copper cylinder,,,ive never layed eyes on one of these in my life and was wondering if any of you lads knew anything about them??? are they any good...

I always thought it wasn't good to put matt over silk ???,,,or is it ok if well sanded ???

Hello,,,i am about to paint my kitchen after doing quite a bit of filling and sanding to the walls,,,ive used tetrion filler around tje architraves as they were a right mess and there are some small bare patches of plaster im places where ive been sanding,,,should i go over the filler and bare...

Gonna have a look to wickes etc with a piece of the kitchen,,,see if r can get a match,,,it does look like thay beech effect like,,,we shall see...

hello,,,can anyone tell me which wood effect this kitchen is ???,,,I need to order some kick boards for it,,,there wasn't any on the kitchen when I bought the property,,,not quite sure what they are,,,oak effect ???,,,maple effect ??? anybody ???

hello,,,going to do my rear brake pads tomorrow on my ford focus estate 2010,,,i was wondering do you need to clamp off the rubber brake hose and open the bleed nipple before winding the piston back in ???,,,a few youtube vids ive watched mentions nothing about clamping the hose,,,they just wind...

hello,,,I have some grundfos water pumps that I need to check to see if they are working,,,my question is can I just wire a piece of flex to them and plug it into the mains to see they turn or would that burn out the start capasitor or something???,,,I was just thinking maybe they are on a...