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Dear Forum We were hoping to get our local wood floor shop to give us a quote for our home but they closed since January 2009. We should be grateful if you could advise us where (except the big outlet B&Q..) to buy solid/re-engineering wood and wall paper in and around London area Thanks

Thanks Richard for your advice. About bathroom tiling, our wall is brick with render (brown lookalike cement then white layer). Can the tile go directly onto the brick? Thanks again for your help

Thanks all for your response. could you please adviser whom I should be calling to clarifying as to whether stabliser is suitable for pebbledash. Is there quality difference between Dulux Weathershield and Sandtex mansory paints Thanks again

Hi Mark, we would like to have our external wall painted and were wondering if you would be interested. To avoid timing unnecessary wasting on both sides, would you mind tell me a bit about your skills, are you a general DIY or painter/decorator. Thanks

Dear Forum We had some builders in to give quotes for 1) fixing our cracked ceiling. One builder said "raking out, bonding then taping then plastering", the other said "raking out, bonding then skiming". Is skiming the same as plastering? is bonding without taping is good enough? 2)...

Dear Forum, We have received different explanations from different painters and would like your view. We have an external pebble dash wall which is in its raw state and would like to have it painted. All painters we invited for a quote mentioned the same paint - Dulux Weathershields which...

Hi Simon, Thanks. We are not installing it ourselves and would be very keen to find out this Aqualisa product. Can you advise how to locate these installer Thanks

Dear Forum, My tiler said that we don't need to have a waterproof pannel (aquapannel) before the tiles can be put on because our bathroom wall is brick. All we need is to have it plastered then tile on. Could you please give us a guide on the cost of having the existing tile removed and...

Hi Dave, thanks for your help. Could u pls advise the height of the cold water tank needs to be above the cylinder. Could a pump be used instead?

Guys, I heard that Aqualisa has come out with a new digital shower which allows users to set different temperature and water volume. However, because this is much more expensive they are traded under different name and supply only to upmarket bathroom suppliers. Any idea what this is called...

Hi Gengasman , yes you are correct, we are planning to have a new boiler with a new vented cylinder. What we are confused is whether this is possible to have the vented cylinder in the loft. Do you have any view on MegaLife cyclinder. Thanks all for your help

Hi Forum, We should be grateful for your advice on 1) good brand for an Vented Main Water Cylinder (VMWC) 2) does WMWC need a cold water storage and can it be put in the loft as we have no space on the first floor 3) would it work well with Worcester System Boiler Many thanks again for...

G'morning Simon Thanks for your response - much appreciated. Outside Megalo, can you please give a few other makes name that provide unvented system Best

Hi Forum, We are soon having our new hotwater and heating changed. We are going to have Worcester System boiler + Megalo 210 litres and would like to have Aqualisa shower installer. However, our bathroom supplier said that Aqualisa shower is not the best for unvented system because Aqualisa...

Thanks Noseall. Could you please confirm whether I need to have the corbelling build as my current chimney does not have this.

We would like to have our external wall pebbledash painted and were offered by Treatexwall.com to have the wall resin bonding.... which they say last much longer than painting and allow the wall to breath. However, our double glazing trademan said that there has been a number of cases (not...

Forum, please help 1) Open up fireplace - our chimney trademans will be opening up an existing fireplace which is currently blocked. He proposed to remove to remove pointingg from the top few layers of the bricks and repoint with sand and cement, to remove the existing flaunching, put in...

Dear Forum, We should be grateful for your advice for the following topics 1) Bathroom tiling - instead of taking the old tiles out and replaster the wall before puting the new tile on. My tiler suggests that we can have the new tiles on the old in a non-wet area of the bathroom. 2)...

Richard, thanks for your help. We spoke to our tiler today who suggested to tile the new tiles over the old ones, ie not removing the old tiles. what is your thought?

Thanks guys again for your prompt response. Please give me further infor. 1) what is tanking 2) with waterproof, Aquapannel or Hardiebacker boards, they still need tanking before tiling, please confirm. Cheers