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Whenever I've encountered walls like this I've always sanded them to get rid of any loose or flaky material, given the wall a quick hoover and wipe to get rid of any dust and then cleaned them with sugar soap to get rid of any residual wallpaper paste/glue. Afterwards I then seal them with...

I've heard and read very good things about Soudal Acryrub and off the back of that have just bought myself a tube ready to use tomorrow so I'll soon be able to report back with my own experiences, however it's supposed to be very flexible, easy to sand and most importantly be overpaintable...

:lol: I think you're right mate. Thankfully it's now looking like the water leak can be accessed from elsewhere so I'm off the hook with regards to straw-related shenanigans. Just got to patch up the big holes I've made in it now...

I'm pretty sure that there's a slow water leak somewhere behind one of my old airing cupboard walls where it adjoins the bathroom. What seemed like a simple job of cutting out a few square sections of the wall with a plasterboard saw and having a good look behind quickly turned into an epic...

My problem is that there's only one window in the wall that adjoins the garage, and that doesn't open, so I've no way of measuring it. However the rest of the walls definitely have a cavity so presumably that one will too. Thanks for your help. In that case I'll just insulate the door and...

Is there an easy way to figure this out, short of drilling through the wall? The reason I think it's a solid wall is because, from the outside at least, it looks like it's only one course of bricks thick, although it's not that easy to tell due to the way that the front porch has been built...

I realise that garage insulation questions are pretty common on here, but I'm more interested in asking whether or not it's worth me doing rather than how to do it. I've got a brick-built detached (1978) house with an attached garage of the same construction (also pitched roof) but...

I managed to do some testing last night and made a couple of breakthroughs. Firstly, it was indeed an RCD being tripped by the iron (and kettle, and hoover) rather than an MCB. That got me thinking about the bathroom light and the fact that it has a fan powered off it (which I probably should've...

I've been asking myself the same question since seeing the above diagram because there are definitely two RCDs in the consumer unit along with 5 MCBs, arranged as downstairs lights, downstairs sockets, cooker, RCD and upstairs lights, upstairs sockets, RCD). At the time I just quickly flipped...

That's a good little diagram. I was struggling to get my head around how that could happen but that illustrates it well.

It's not one I can use very often :lol:

Yeah they do, as that's the first thing that alerted us to there being anything wrong. I was upstairs and it suddenly went pitch black, then 30 seconds or so later I hear my gf shout up first saying that the iron won't work and then shortly afterwards asking why I'm sat in the dark :lol...

The socket doesn't look any different to the others, but I've just been speaking to my gf and she says that since then, the kettle and the hoover have both tripped out the upstairs lights as well, and both of them were plugged into different sockets (the kettle was another socket in the kitchen...

Given the numerous other issues we've found you're probably right. Any ideas how much an EICR is likely to cost? If it helps it's a two storey, three bed detached house with 11 rooms.

I've recently moved into a 1978 3 bed detached house and it seems to have a few strange electrical issues. I won't list them all here but there's one in particular that I need to get sorted and that's the bathroom light because trying to bath a toddler by lamplight is a royal pain in the @ss, as...

Good point. Having once done a bit myself (a few m2 where nobody was ever likely to see) I can also understand how it could take a lifetime to really master. The next problem then is finding a plasterer over 60 who doesn't have arthritis in his elbows or shoulders :)

You've done well there. Usually you only get one or the other :lol:

Funnily enough I've just had to do this at my new house as we wanted to emulsion three of the living room walls but they were all covered with some foul wallpaper. If you strip off the wallpaper and find that the plaster underneath is in good enough condition to paint then just clean it all very...