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Is it a Flat or Pitched bay Roof? Be careful putting plastic up to the ceiling joists on flat roof. Piched roof will have air circulating. Flat Roof might not. If you put plastic up to the ceiling joists then where does condensation go, into the ceiling joists. Your central heating will...

It might not look as if it will pool now but timber with expand and contract thus is a year or so it will pool. Do not paint timber with anything. It requires Lead at best or Good quality Felt at worst. You can get fibreglass flat roofs these days. I personally would not use until they have...

If you are doing a reroof do not use immitation slate. It breaks up, fades, and can curl in areas that get alot of hot direct sunlight. The reason I know this is that when they were first popularly introduced in the eighties I did a re roof with these and the roof now needs replacing. The...

Joe-90 has the right idea. I would add that it is worth buying some Bonding plaster and making small mixes as you work. The point of this is it prevents the skirting coming loose and breaking the caulking you will need to do along the top of the skirting when decorating. Hoovers kids toys etc...

afterthought. If you buy a tool you can get a battery sabre saw for about £30 at B@Q

Simplest way is to reove the skirting. Mark a line for the cut prior to removing. Take a bolster and ease the skirting from the wall. Then get a piece of 4x2 and gut a wedge. Drive wedge between wall and skirting. The skirting could be scribed at one end, so remove it at the other end. Use...

The auto air vent keeps releasing steam when the hot water is turned on for a few minutes but the heating is off. The switch is set to summer/winter. When the heating is on the hot water works no problem. I have searched the forums but find no similar problem. The bar pressure is set to 1.2...