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Please explain the use of Lime render , surely that's what was on there in the first place,it peels off in sheets with no banging at all, just put a chisel to the wall and rub and it falls off in seconds,I know it's been there 100 years but the odd bits it was patched up with some 28 years or...

Thanks for that answer, I wasn't going to inject a DPC along the kitchen wall, now that lead pipe leak has been sorted,I don't think I'll have any problems any more, I only injected the lobby walls because they were the original 4" soft red outhouse walls that had no DPC, the other side of the...

I don't like doing anything Bill and Ben style :lol:,I hate to see it being done by anybody, I believe in doing a job properly, then it only needs to be done once,my main concern is it cracking right in that lobby doorway, that original floor may have been there 100 years or more and may suffer...

Thanks 1john, I actually used that deep fill leveller to do the lobby, it would cost me an arm and a leg to do the whole floor in it though , when I patched up my lobby floor to get that level with the bathroom, that was 1" to nothing out and was only 1m x 2.1m in size, so basically it formed a...

Following on from my soft red brick post, when "Bill and Ben" the cowboy men, built the bathroom extension on the back of my house they only managed to get that floor about 40 mm higher than the original kitchen floor on the same house level. I expect they built the extension on the back of the...

My old house is made out of soft reds which I know suck up the water like a sponge, whoever did the work in my house some 20 years ago came from the O.K Corral , Yee Haaa, ridem cowboy. Some of the work has to be seen to be believed, I know most of it stayed on the wall all that time ,it...

I've always been told nothing vinyl for the miss-coat, always use straight forward supermat then water that down a bit as well so it soaks in a bit rather than sitting on the surface forming a skin so to speak

Would it even be possible to run a 15mm pipe inside a metal 25mm galvanised conduit to protect the pipe all round, or fix a steel plate into the wall first, if it had been on a different wall I wouldn't have had these problems, I can't box it in any corners and certainly don't want it face work...

Sounds like you've got screed then if you already had a go at it you'd have known if you'd been in concrete, screed is sharp sand and cement put in damp rather than wet and forms a hard uniform surface, as you said. fairly easy to break up, concrete is a wet mix , a lot stronger and full of...

I'm just about to totally gut my ancient kitchen and need to do something with the old lead surface mounted gas pipe,I basically want to get it chased into the wall and just leave a surface mounted bayonet socket to plug the gas cooker into, but have seen many posts frowning upon burying gas...

I'd definately do it yourself, breaking around the pipes will take you a fair while, especially if you've got to run a chase along the concrete to move that rad, won't take the plumber long to end cap the pipes or run the new lengths in and connect the rad up, if all the concrete work is already...

Thank you, I'll whip it off in the morning and see what's what, if it is the black knob part that's worn I'll easily be able to find out now as it will leak once that flexi is removed, will be easy repair as well if it is at fault :)

Is the bottom half also a stop valve then, because that fitting at the bottom seems to be a drain cap ,not another valve, if I turn the screw water comes out, but that could just be what is left in that short length of flexi pipe, I thought it was going to be another screw I could use to turn...

Can't disconnect the filling loop , it's one of those in-line "T" type filling loop connectors, it's been on there ever since the boiler was fitted without any problems until now, the only successful way I could try would be to turn the mains off but the pressure doesn't rise that quickly so...

I have a combi boiler that I recently topped up via the filling loop, those auto air vents always seem to leak after a while I know, now the boiler pressure seems to keep creeping up of it's own accord ,about half a bar a week, it happened straight after I'd just topped it up , is it likely that...

It's not uncommon for houses this age not to have lintels as you describe them, what you'll probably find is they do have lintels but they are made of timber, they used to be above windows and all sorts in those days,as you said it's not a load bearing wall, unfortunately timber has natural...

My sat finder picked up a signal just fine, it wasn't from Astra 28.2 E though when I did it the first time,I also tried all manner of methods to align the dish, even form holding a large flat piece of ply against my wall I was fitting it to, marking where North was then setting a line for the...

I used the easy method in the end ,catch the sky man at the end of the road and give him a drink,now got 85% signal strength and pretty much 100% quality most of the time now, just got to see how far the signal will drop in bad weather now :), saved me borrowing my mates old sky box and locking...

I've got a feeling your right there,the dish doesn't look a long way out compared to other peoples, the elevation might be a bit high most say it's better to be a bit low than high as it helps bounce the signal back into the LNB, were supposed to have rainy weather for the next three days or so...

Thanks for answering, I might well have to get another sat meter, as from powering the LNB, it must be sending power up the cable for the meter to be able to work,whether that power is enough I don't know, the manual says nothing extra about powering the LNB, just that it must be connected to a...