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Well, 23 bags of sand later and I'm still going...I recon on about 13sqm, but the wall is about as bad as you could get for rendering (straight) I guess. Some bricks are 3/4" out from others, so there's probably about 25mm of render in some places! Im pretty happy though - wall is perfectly...

I think a pilot has to be a little more highly qualified to fly a plane than a traindriver (it's on bl00dy rails for a start, with just a stop/start button) or a bus driver...which to be fair, anyone with a driving licence, an ounce of common sense and 5 minute tuition could manage ;-) And as...

Having sprayed some wooden furniture, the finish is second to none compared to a brush, so wondering if anyone here was experience of spratying walls and woodwork white, emulsion for the walls and eggshell for the woodwork. Do you use thinned down regular paint (eg dulux eggshell) and thinned...

Yes, insulate it!! I'm doing mine and stuffing insulation everywhre I can. When you take the old cieling down you'll be covered head to foot in black dust if it's old and original...seal your self in the room and make sure you wear a mastk that fits perfectly or you'll have black bogies for...

Certainly didn't mean to undervalue the help we've had on here from a certian mr pcaouolte...if he mails me his contact details I'd seriously send round a few ciders! 8) Help on here is invaluable... :D

So last night tackled the front of chimney breast of the room I'm renovating...1.3m x 2.7m. Needed to bring the top right out by 5mm and the top left by about 8mm, so eneded up putting two straight edges up the sides to give me a perfect, vertical level to rule off against. The wall is very...

Sadly you have to forget the rules and just phone your LBC...mine advised me I could do all the work but get it tested by my sparc and submit the results and they'd sign off on it...not strictly in line with the rules as I understand it, but saves me paying for the LBC to get an electrician in...

Cheers guys. Did a wall tonight and went well...mixed 4 bags of sand by hand in a plastered buket...not ideal, but for there in the end!

found it! hidden cistern in a bit of loft i've not been in before and didn't realise you could get in it! so three header tanks, all makes sense now

Thanks...def Got water in circuit...now! And pipes from aga (clone) are hot, but not crazy hot... I'm thinking either there's a hidden cistern somewhere...the top one is split and does both CH and DHW or they've just used the DHW tank for the CH :shock: though I'm sure I'd have seen the...

Got a strange central heating/DHW query so help gratefully appreciated. So I have a three story house (built like that in 1912) What I have: Kitchen: An Ideal Mexico Super CF100 floor standing boiler in the kitchen (which also looks like it dates to 1912!) in the boiler cupboard are two...

Ok, so had a think in the train on the way home and rerouted the power cable via a new conduit, away from sensor cables etc. Rerouted the telephone cable up through a new conduit where the old power came in... new panel closer view Hope that's a bit better on the routing...

Ground floor going into a skip, makes sense...this was upstairs going into rubble sacks, my trusty transit and down the tip...no skips for me:-) must have shifted 60 to 80 25kg bags...kept me fit that did!

Thanks, Steve. Presume it's worth 5-1 PVAing the walls first to stop the suction?

I was amazed at how quickly the render came off my bedroom walls with an SDS and a tile chisell. I was amazed at how LONG it took me to put it all in rubble sacks and get rid of the stuff after :D That was internal though and the rander was literally 100 years old and coming off anyway!

Thank you! The wall will be plaster board and there'll be a small retun above the top of the box level with the tops of the conduit sleeves to give the case room to slide up and off Wasn't sure about the run on the twin and earth, but didn't think there was really a way of getting round...

Thanks, my spark (who's signed it off) liked it too :D ...the middle one at the bottom isn't conduit, it's 16mm armoured cable from the main dist board down stairs...a bit of a bugger to get round corners, that one!! :D I've gone metal for all my boards...makes install much easier . The...

Thanks, but got the rest of the walls to do after this so probably best if i get used to measuring it out :-)

Thanks. That helps a lot! presume a bag is 25kg? so a bag of sand per coat effectively? plasticiser in both coats? Cheers, Virgil.

SO a couple of pics.... Panel mounted in the wall...hope proximity to CU is not going to be an issue...a lot of work to move it now!! wiring with labels on cables ;-) panel That's the instal so far...won't bother with pics of sensors (they all look the same! one...