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1930s most walls where two walls join together. Mostly happens in top half of wall including internal load bearing wall. Crack smaller than 1mm. Sparks did not use angle grinder but hammer and bolster.... Plasterer sorted out chases. Could it be the new bonding pulling the old...

Hi, They are mostly near corners towards the ceiling. None have appeared at the bottom of the walls. Every wall has been chased in two months ago due to rewire. Some do run diagonally which is what is worrying me. In places the plaster sounds hollow when tapped. Similar cracks are on...

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the run is vertical behind skirting boards up to the sockets, I seem to remember that this is allowed.

Hi, During our recent rewire, the elec. did not pull down the skirting boards. He placed the wires behind them after digging a chase behind the skirting boards. The plasterer then came and plastered behind the skirting boards. No conduit or capping was used (only on drops from ceiling)...

Hi, Recently I've noticed some cracks in our plaster. See pics. Are these just cosmetic cracks or can it be something more serious (ie. subsidence)? We had the house rewired a couple of months ago and there was a lot of bashing but these cracks have appeared a few weeks later so I don't...

Hello, I am stripping off wall paper in my bedroom and the end result is a wall with some paste and small hairline crack here and there. What is the best option for painting in terms of cost? 1) get the walls skimmed 2) use lining paper 3) use PVA

the soil pipe needs taking out as well. It branches off the main soil pipe from upstairs so I'll need to patch the hole in the vertical soil pipe once the redundant horizontal soil pipe is taken out. So I'll need a cap of some sort for this. A friend told me just to use cement topatch the...

i'd rather have it soldered on so i'll get a pro in. I'll get him to cut the pipe back as well so that the dead leg will only be 20cm long. Thank you all for the replies.

thanks. it's a 15mm water feed i need to cap. Do you have a pic of the "tool" you mentioned? o you think this can be done by a DIYer? I would not want the water to gush out of the pipe whilst i am at work.....

Hello, We'd like to get rid of a toilet and I was wondering if we can just cap the end of the pipe that supplies the WC cistern or do we have to cut back the pipe back to the T junction? This would be very problematic. The length of pipe as it is measures now is about 1.2m Thank you.

do you think one coat over the rest of the wall will be enough? I am painting it white. Do you have any suggestions in terms of paint to use? Should I run some sand paper over the bits that have been skimmed? These surfaces feel smoother than the rest of the wall. Thanks.

Hi, Recently had a rewire. Can I paint over these chases? I would like to paint the walls white. Do you have any tips for the prep work? How many coats will I need? Also do I need an undercoat? See pics below

tried closing it but it does not close completely leaving water dribbling out. It does not shut completely, where do i go from here? If it needs changing could a new st be installed upstream of the existing one?

thanks for the response. which way do i turn it to close? Anti-clockwise?

Chris, The vendor used it when he left the house to us three months ago. IMHO shutting it would prevent a leak upstream but who is to say the tap itself would not start leaking after two days :roll: Tap is on ground floor so at least there would be nothing going through ceiling etc etc...

Hi all, I am going on holiday for a while so i was wondering if i should close our stop tap. Will the central heating still work? The tap looks quite old but I think it may be ok to turn it. Is it advisable to close a stop tap for a holiday? Regards,

http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/210456 hi is this ok to put between pipes and joists? is there a fire risk

there is a lot of grey cable connected to these connector boxes. I thought grey cable was fairly recent but you guys tell me it can be old. I've also discovered a ligther grey BICC cable. Even with this one i've no clue how old it could be, no date on it.

when was this? Trying to get an approx. age of this installation