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Thanks for the replies and apologies for not updating this thread sooner. I am going to embark on this sub-project this weekend. The panel is being moved from the hallway and into the integral garage. All the cables run past the new location except for the speaker and contact on the door...

Hi, I have an Ademco Accord XPC in the house that was put in by ADT for the previous owners. Thanks to this site I have managed to reset the codes and have turned off the dialling feature to make it a bell only system. Long term I have plans to fit a brand new panel but I need to move the...

We have success of sorts! I switched to Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt (the shop only had SuperMatt in Magnolia). I managed to do a wall on my own one evening last week by keeping a wet edge and working quickly from one side to the other. Once it was dry and I was satisfied with the finish I decided...

Thank you for the response. I am not an experianced painter, just a DIY'r. The plaster was left to dry for over three weeks so it shouldn't be that. The plaster finish was also very smooth not least as the ceiling was torn down and re-boarded. I think it might be the paint drying out -...

We've just finished building an extension at the back of our house and I've been trying to decorate it for the last week. The room is 4.5m wide by about 8m long with bifold doors across the width of one of the shorter walls. Both the ceiling and walls were freshly plastered. My first coat...

I'm planning to insulate a single skin wall between my house and garage - I've bought 50mm PIR board and was planning to fit it between battens and then attach plasterboard to them. The problem I have is that I can only find 47mm sized wood - be it planed, sawn, treated, etc. Any idea where I...

We have a normal gravity fed CH system. I've had the living room replastered and took the rads off in there (and binned them). The valves are still in place and the system is still full of water (we're not running it as it's too warm). I am going to drain down the system and replace all the...

I have bought Danfoss TRV's which have a collar to change the direction of flow - am I going to do any damage if I run the TRV's the wrong way round for the first time the boiler is fired up? Cheers...

Any idea how to determine which pipes are feed/return when the radiator has been removed? I don't have it to put back on and need to figure out which side to put a TRV. Cheers...

Thank you all - the mineral cap sheet is coming up today and being replaced with 2 layers of sanded felt with seperate mineral upstands.

Thank you. I understand everything apart from "Mineral Details" - do you mean what I would call flashing? Can I ask the reason why it isn't good to run the flat felt as flashing?

I'm having some building work and part of it is to extend a small balcony. The old balcony floor was taken down and a new larger one constructed. The architect spec'd either bitumen or felt as a covering with promenade tiles on top. This is what I came home to - a single layer of capsheet...

I believe that the blue and white wires connected to your Openreach socket is the line coming in from the street. I would guess that the wires terminating in the chocolate block are from the various points in your house. I would wire the white and blue wires from your chocolate block to the...