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Glad you spotted that and realised what I meant. :D

I never use radiator paint, but I remember the last time I used it was a good few years ago, and you had to have the rad on, it didnt work on cold rads, I dont know if its made different now, but I use oilbase, either gloss, satinwood or eggshell.

You only gloss first if your hanging finish paper. It could be you are working with Toshers and not Decorators. :wink:

Another informative post and excellent advice from Zamps :D I will add my two pence worth into the mix as well. :D I see you have done your fair share of prep, and not afraid of hard work, and you will have a fair bit more to do, but if will pay off in the end. Regards the picture...

Lol, reminds me of a run in I had with a non payer, admittidly it was my first and only time dealing with this type of thing, but it was when I first started out on my own, I was so desperate to get going and get established, I had a gut feeling about this person, and it proved right, it taught...

I have magnetic signs made up, I know it looks better if its signwritten, but I can take my signs off whenever I want. Try and make your sign eyecatching, so people will remember it, and like Desl says, if its parked out someones home, people will take the number of it. TBH, I have always...

I always clean as I go, and give a hoover round before I go home, as thats the way I work, but annoys me when other trades leave thier krap around, and cause I am the last one to leave I am sort of expected to clean it up. :twisted:

Thanks for that Gasmark, will drop you a line soon. :D

I'll go along with that, I take it that the skirting boards are painted white? If you go along very carefully with decorators caulk, and have a damp cloth handy to wipe any excess off. It might be an idea to do it thinnly, then when dry go it over again, build it up so it looks level against...

I cannot understand why our goverment does not make the able bodied unemployed take a job, or stop thier benefits,especially the younger population, who perhaps stay at home,stay in bed most of the day, have no kids, but can still stay up all night watching TV, or playing on thier computer...

Cheers for that Zamps :D , I have given up on new build now, too hard lol, I still do some new work, but not on the scale I used to do.

You can paint skimmed plaster as soon as it does pink, using a supermatt or contract paint. But, when it comes to a bonding plaster like your fireplace, you are not supposed to apply any paint on it for approx 4-6 months. The plaster on the bonding has to dry from the inside out, and if...

Welcome gasman, Your personality really shines through, what charm school did you attend? :wink: If you read my post properly you would have seen I said, 'specially the winter months'. I do quotes in the evenings in the summer months, it might have something to do with it being light in...

I have to do my quotes at weekends, specially in the winter months, I dont mind too much, but today I have 4, one after the other, by the time I have done them, it will be about 2 ish, and nearly the whole day has gone,and sometimes I go on a Sunday. Dont get me wrong, it could be getting me...

If a cop car is behind him and the cop is a right barsteward, he can check from his police vehicle. My friend got caught like this, she had tax, mot, but her insurance had rang out the day before, and was on her way to renew it, (what she told me), and the cops pulled her over, after...

I sometimes do the way the picture shows, depending on the paper also, like Zamps says, if you do it that way with vinyl paper, make sure you run a bit of overlap adhesive along, to help the paper to stick on the overlap bit, if you havent overlap adhesive, you can use a little bit of decorators...

Phew!!! rather you than me Zampa, as I read the OP question, and thought 'whats the easiest way to explain it'? You did a grand job :D BTW, the above method is normally the way I do it. :D

Lol RF, I was dying to ask the same :D I could not even hazzard a guess to which one is the wife :shock: PS, what moisturiser does she use.????? :wink: