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Your advice please ref the above ?! >> Water based satinwood white Sikkens - do I use Brush or roller for best finish? What gives the best finish on woodwork, doors etc? :- > Brush (synthetic?) ? or > Roller - foam or mohair? I don't like to see brush strokes, that's why I have used rollers on...

Same query, better explained .... Reading my own post above, perhaps it doesn't read very clear, a sketch should help ? A hallway double radiator that I want to pull in closer to the wall and run the tails coming from the floor, behind instead of in front of the floor joist. The tails will...

I have a hallway double radiator in a tight space at the foot of the stairs behind the front door, set a long way off the wall hanging on the longer side of the offset wall brackets. It also has vertical 15mm tails coming out of the floor some 120mm away from the wall which frequently get kicked...

Thanks. I am sold on the water based white satin, Sikkens probably. Over the years with oil based satinwood I had become a convert to small foam or mohair gloss rollers. Reading here though it seems the advice is more towards using a brush, synthetic, not a roller, for water based satinwood...

Thanks dcdec. It may sound simple, but I just want a white paint that stays white and doesn't give me lots of agro putting it on. There may be die-hards who love oil/solvent based paints and not the 'new fangled' water based ones, but for most people it isn't a science or an anorak subject, but...

Opps, thanks. I appreciate your feedback, but it all sounds like being an industrial chemist! Flowtrol, XIM Bonder, Owatrol, white spirit - so many ingredients! And what quantities are these sold in, and from where, and how much to use of each and when etc..........! I just want to paint the...

Thanks. Sikkens is definitely not cheap but that is secondary to it being the right product. It sounds like for a water based paint (and they will definitely stay white) it is still good to work with and produces a good finish. Products like Dulux Diamond have been recommended by some but then...

Thanks Joe-90. Would that vinyl matt be thinned with water x% ?? On the subject of vinyl emulsion, I am decorating hall stairs and landing - big job lots of laborious prep from years of neglect. I am wallpapering the hall but painting up the stairs and landing. Right or wrong I chose and have...

Thanks John. That aligns with what I had in mind. The surface is very flat and even, just a bit porous from all the prep. I had also in mind to use a matt standard emulsion, good you recommend that. Maybe thinned a little so it doesn't get absorbed in the new/exposed porous plaster? Perhaps a...

I am preparing my hallway for wallpapering and wonder if it needs lining paper under it? The paper I have is a quality M&S medium weight with no relief or profile - flat. Lining the walls would be an additional time consuming stage so I don't want to do it unless really necessary. The wall...

Would you say that Dulux is equally or more likely to yellow in the same way and for the same reasons? But it sounds like Leyland is the best to use and also to get a good finish? Thanks

Thanks to all. And thanks simond, your advice to open up the boiler front to access the pump auto vent and unscrew the black cap solved it, air gushed out. That cleared the pump and fired up the boiler. I didn't know I could open the boiler without treading in RGI territory. The rest from there...

I just looked at the Screwfix website and there are many rave reviews on Leyland which goes by the name satinwood gloss which is a bit of a mix, is it satinwood or gloss? However, there are a few who give it a very poor rating for fading to a cream or even yellow within 6 months! I don't know...

Thanks Joe. Yes it is important to get right I think? I bought the Dulux in particular the Once thinking it was ok. Although I don't want to discard it (£) I have invested much more of my time in all the hard graft of prep in sand, fill, paint, sand, fill etc to get a good surface. The top coat...

Sorry if I am labouring the steps, but I'd rather do as advised by you guys and then ask for confirmation of the next steps than just do something wrong again. Please see steps above marked > Thanks for your patience and help.

Gigz - Thanks. No I don't know what the purge P0 programme is. There is a button marked like a flame with a X through it. I have used that to 'purge' the system when there has been a F22 fault, seems to restart and clear everything. However I am stuck where I was with a pump valve bled of air...

Thanks again everyone. Nortonj - I opened the (shut) black cap and air rushed out then stopped with a gurgle, but no leaking water. I suppose if it is a one way auto vent (?) it should just let the air out and stop at that? Do I now leave it slightly open? Half a turn? The boiler pressure now...

Joe-90. Thanks will do. Regarding the Once vs. standard non-drip. Should I forget about the Once if it is a cheap, poor paint and not use it? Or shall I do as proposed and use it upstairs and use the good one downstairs? I don't want to find a poor paint deteriorates fast and I have to recoat it...

Thanks very much, I assumed the pump might be running dry by the sound of it. I have the front panel down and case off, where to now? See my picture, the pump has a switch/speed selector on top and this cylinder with a black cap on behind it, is it that? What am I looking for and how do I...

Joe-90, thanks for the tips. I don't know why I bought the Once? Typical DIYer thinking it is a shortcut. I have most of the standard satinwood one anyway. It probably wouldn't be wise to use both types, Once and standard non-drip alongside each other? They must have a different sheen/finish...