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I'm in a bit of a pickle, bought a nice 2nd hand bathroom suite set which came with a shower tray/enclosure, but I have just realised that there is 1 part missing, a metal profile with which you fix the shower panels to the wall ( the one which you drill and fix to wall and than attach the...

Well just ordered the marshalltown, £35.09 from toolstop with their 5% coupon and 3% cashback through quidco, every penny counts :D Just checked on ebay they are selling for around £30 when used... Can use it to do all I need and sell it on to someone else with a fiver loss. Not bad...

Alright gotcha, would it be a good idea to get that stainless marshalltown for now and work with it, and than later on if I have another urge to do plastering get a plastic one as well to try it out since I would need a trowel anyway to put the stuff up since you can't put the 1st coat on with...

what about the nela/refina trowels? steel ones not the plastic ones. Saw some videos where they compare the marshalltown vs those and they said they are much easier to work with, although the traditional marshalltown still provides great results?

Yup that's what I noticed in videos that lots of people are using the plastic trowels, but you need 2 trowels in that case. where as in the steel ones you need one which is a big plus for me since I just need it for my own occasional use not a professional every-day job so have lower costs to...

I have about 80m2 to plaster now and probably another 110m2 in a couple of months when I get more time, started already with some cheapo £6.99 trowel , got the basics down and did 2 very small walls, came out pretty decent for a first-try however... I'm getting frustrated with my cheapo trowel...

Also if you got any crucial tips that someone should know before doing it that, would be great if could share them :) also about how long time do your reckon it would take someone to do 80m2 of just almost straight walls? and after finishing it can you sand that stuff a bit to remove any...

I have about 80m2 of plasterboard that I want to try and plaster myself, have never done this before and heard it's not as easy and takes some skill.. sooo I want to try to learn it. What's the worst that can happen? :D I have finished countless of plasterboard walls abroad by just taping up...

Let me just say - out of a sudden almost everyone in this country is an ''engineer'' ,You could call yourself a High-executive certified checked &vetted lavatory engineer ( a toilet cleaner) and it would still fly... I would not let anyone near my house to do something on it,because I know I...

the cheapest way to do it. fix some 100mm timber battens straight to the wall (no need to remove floor/ceiling) , go get some 150-170mm loft roll insulation (preferably from someone who has some left over for dirt cheap) , stick it between the studs,stick the dpm over the rockwoll/battens,screw...

if you want to do it the proper, legal way, take your budget and at least double it if you haven't done it already ;)

no laminate ever needs glue in it, the only time glue is needed is for very old style engineered flooring/parquet. about the way, if the room is exactly square you you can lay it whatever way you want. if it's a rectangle , than you lay it in the direction where it's the the narrowest for better...

Do not ever buy these, utter crap!

I had ordered some samples from them, what I got wasn't worth the price.. In the end I found someone on ebay selling old stock of 22mm engineered hand-made oak flooring , the packs must be at least 15+years old, but the product inside was of excellent quality. I got£30-£35/m2 product for under...

Yup PVA, I had a garage that was super dusty, took £5 worth of PVA, 2 coats diluted, went over with £15 floor paint and I got a really nice floor now for almost nothing :) And best of all No more nasty concrete dust, I was figting and sweeping up that stuff for 2years+ , PVA was all it needed.

I would say go for it... I had some land abroad and wanted to build a summer house there, spent 2 whole summers just doing nothing but building it myself with a little bit of hired help here and there for tasks I couldn't do alone+ had made the base for it /sorted out the papers the summer...

Yes Sir. The thing is I have had 4 different sanders over the years ( much much much cheaper ones I must say) , none have had this problem to this extent. and the ''problem'' is getting more severe with time with this mirka so I'm fairly sure that it has something to do with the machine not my...

got the Mirka deros 650, Bought the unit used about a year ago, the guy said it still had some warranty, although i'm not sure for how long and I don't have any papers to confirm when it was bought either..probably it's over now anyways. And I'm pretty much sure that was the reason why the guy...

I'm planning to do a loft conversion (no dormer, just a straight boarding out roof/floor ,making a staircase and fitting a velux window) (I will do some of the jobs myself as I'm electrician by trade and have done some construction work abroad for quite some time as well,but I will also bring in...