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Hi guys, I have always wanted to be able to plaster myself. I am a fairly competent DIYer and have had some building experience in the past. My plastering experience to date has been patching small areas and filling small holes. I have found that "AbleSkills" offer a 4 day plastering...

Thanks people. Most useful, as always. Cheers!

Hi, I am just trying to understand how a combi boiler actually works inside. Am i correct in thinking that the water that circulates within the heat exchanger and is used to heat DHW for the taps is the same water that is used for the central heating and pumped to the radiators? (similar...

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Hi, I am about to attempt dry lining a ceiling. I plan to cut boards so that the cuts are against the walls and the tapered edges joined in the middle of the ceiling....is this correct? I assume there will be some gaps between the boards and the walls. What is used to fill these gaps...

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Yes, i used Nitromors. Applied it with a paint brush and came off so easily!

Hi, I painted my concrete garage floor with red garage floor paint about 10 years ago. Prior to painting I thorughly washed the floor etc etc I gave the floor 2 coats. Over the last few years, where I have moved jacks across it etc it is starting to peel in places. So.......I want to...

Hi, I painted my concrete garage floor with red garage floor paint about 10 years ago. Prior to painting I thorughly washed the floor etc etc I gave the floor 2 coats. Over the last few years, where I have moved jacks across it etc it is starting to peel in places. So.......I want to...

Thanks guys. Took it all apart at the weekend. Cant get into the lockcase as rivetted together. Noticed that one of the linkages from spring to other mechanisms has bent and forced its way out of the lockcase. Decided to just break this off and put all back together. Everything...

Thanks for all your help guys. Do these lockcases come in standard sizes? I.e. will it be easy enough to source one as a direct replacement? I think will try and open the current one on the weekend, if possible, and take from there but i gather i will probably end up with a new lockcase...

Hi, I opened my back door this morning and it was fine. came back in, pushed the handle up to activate the locks and it felt weird. tried to open the door again but no luck. Really had to foce it to open the door. now, the door opens but the handle is floppy. So...you open the door...

Thanks Technotim Am considering these options....... To really confuse matters Salamander replied to an email query saying that fitting an nrv on the supply pipe to the pump will do the trick.! Confusing as posts above suggest never to do this lol....

Techno timI knew from the outset that an independent supply would be the best option but due to limited time and much thinking I thought "well this should work"! And if it will work I cant see the point of all the extra work/cost? Is this set up really that bad?

Thanks for your replies and help. Sorry for the negative outburst but I am looking for help and could not care less for comments like Richard C's. Thanks for your positive and very helpful replies IEP and Technotim. Pump is roughly 4 metres from the tank and and pipes are 22mm...

For the fifth time....... I have a bath with a shower mixer tap....are u following Richard C or have i lost u already? I disconnected the pipe from the supply to the bath taps and added in a pump just beneath the bath, under the taps. I have now relocated the pump to the other side of...

It is the Salamander CT50+. I understand that the ideal way is to have an independent supply but besides the risk of having a cold shower if someone turns another tap on what is the issue with the way ihave done it? I have spoke to various plumbers who advised me that the approach i have...

The bathroom sink is before the mixer tap in bath so cant see how NRV valve before these will help the problem? I agree it will help downstairs kitchen tap activating pump? WIll try the kitchen taps and see what happens. Thanks

Fitting non return valves is something I have considered but i was thinking just to the pipes that supply the showerpump as it might? be backflow which is activating the pump. I cant see how fitting NRVs on everything besides the shower will help??

As anyone every experienced this before and if so what was the conclusion?