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You will have to take off the top two coarses of bricks, then knock down the pillar and the brickwork that is attached to it and get that rebuilt and tied into the brickwork. After that is all done you can give the old brickwork a rub over with a wire brush and get the loose stuff off. Then...

Don't put plaster board back, you can get proper boards for showers. They are called Hardi backer boards, I think!! You screw them to the original studs with stainless screws and washers. Have a chat with the lads at the place you are getting the tiles from. You could go over to the tiling forum...

Knock the lot off your wall, put ex-panding metal over any bad cracks' scratch coat it ,float it, skim it...jobs a good un'

Yes that what I thought. The two pipes were put in together 20 years ago! So I will reroute new pipe for oil and water and keep them separate. Thanks for all your input..

Yes I know that, it's the bleeding through that I am worried about...

So the oil does bleed thru the poly? I forgot to say that the oil pipe and poly pipe are in a "sleeve" and there is fuel oil lying in the sleeve.. The distance from the oil tank to the boiler must be about 18 metres...

I have a blue poly water pipe that runs along side of my oil pipe to the boiler..There seems to be an oily smell when we run the cold tap. So as anyone heard of oil bleeding into blue poly?

Like the lads said there's no excuse for a job done like that!!!! Is that a plastic bead in the middle of the gable? It looks like it to me. Looks like they split it into two sections to render it...But it's a weird photo as nothing looks "plumb" in your picture, Might be the angle you took it...

You got the mix right, but a 4-1-1 mix doesn't mean and one water!! Depending on when you did it, could you scrape the stuff off the wall?

Check out the surface of the wall, as it looks like you have a few cracks! So scrim tape them before you plaster as they will come back if you don't...

When you put your boards up as there will be a gap at the bottom of less than 3 inches cut some wooden off cuts the size of the gap and make yourself a lever out of a block of wood or a normal brick and a piece of floor board about 2 foot long. Put the block/brick in the middle of the wall...

It looks like if he has over skimmed the original ceiling when there may have been hairline cracks form movement over the years. He should of thoroughly checked it and scrim-taped all evident cracks. I would get a decorator in and put thin gauge lining paper over the ceiling and emulsion as...

The reason I used the method that I did was because I had old stone walls. But the method you put forward would still do the same thing as long as you have treated timber and dip the ends in preservative or paste them with preservative. Also I would fix the 2x1 onto some strips of DPC to stop...

Yes jmd the boards are 8'x4' and have polystyrene on the back of them, you can get different thickness of polystyrene attached to the boards but the boards I used finished at 22mm. I had to dub out the walls (Throw some render on to the stone walls to fill out the hollows and then a throw a...

Hi jmd1994 l am on holiday at the moment but will be back home tomorrow (monday) so l will try to help you out with your problem

Thanks for that John....(y)

I took it out this afternoon and it went fine!!! I only had it serviced yesterday and I only bought it about a month ago, I had service history from the garage I took it to (but that was 5 years ago!),,So all filters and things were changed and it had a good service. So now I am wandering if...

Hi Dave the mileage is 113500..it's a 2006 model Transit panel van 2402cc diesel engine 2-AXLE rigid. It's just been serviced but it had that problem when I took it in.. It has 5 gears and it seems 4th and 5th are ok but I haven't gone up to 4000 revs in 4th..I will be taking it out this...

Hi my van wont rev over 3000 revs when starting off thru gears up to forth gear , Would it have a limiter on it.lt has just been serviced and still does it.

Hi roughcaster I am still working but am thinking of packing it in this year. Am getting to the age where I think its time to have a rest. How have you been doing?