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I rang Magnaclean over this when I had mine installed. I was told not to install it upside down as this negates the vortex effect required for it to work.

Don't deny that, was surprised myself but I would expect him to know how putty reacts. Maybe he's going to use a non oil based putty or something..will see when he comes this week.

Hi I'm experiencing some problems with my Baxi 105e (non condensing) We had a new expansion tank fitted but now we've started using it again we've a couple of problems. When the CH is working the pressure jumps about 2 bar and if it's been topped up to around 1.5 (incoming water pressure)...

I've got a glazier re-puttying some windows for me (I couldn't achieve the finish they do so worth the couple of quid). I asked how long I would have to wait to paint them and his response was 'the quicker the better'.

Hi I'm at the stage of selecting paint for the front of the house and I'm a few questions. I wll be buying Dulux Weathershield (colour and 3 for price of 2 decided that). Smooth or textured? The house is cement rendered over brick, it's had previous paint and work done on it since it was...

Just got the scaffolding up to do this job myself when we get a break in the weather that is. I've quite a bit to paint (3 storey double fronted house) and was looking at buying the paint from B&Q as they have a 3 for price of 2 at the moment on all masonry paint (weathershield etc). Are the...

Excellent news..cheers.

I'm about to embark on painting quite a bit of plastic piping on my walls. Some of it is grey and other parts painted, lots of which has wore off. Do I need to get the existing paint off first?

Alright, I'll play around with it and get some pics. Thanks.

The plaster (and bonding in another area) blistered itself, like tiny balls of dust but are in fact blisters.

When I say lead paint, it's an old lead based paint. This was under a ton of old wallpaper and is various colours. The problems start pretty quickly after the plaster or bonding is put on, very quickly the finish begins to blister but small blisters. The plasterer just told me it was lead...

Hi, I've started to prepare a room for plastering, on removing the wallpaper we've found the original lead painted wall. The plasterer we had lined up has said he won't plaster over this as it will blister, a test patch proved this. Is their any sealer or primer available that is designed to...

Thanks Dextrous, I'll see how that works.

Yup, will be just a passageway (no door). Currently it's just and end of a wardrobe which I want to replace with a stud wall that doesn't go to ceiling. It's not load bearing as such, just needs some strength across the span to fix the friction poles to.

Thanks. I'm still a bit confused sorry but I don't think I explained so well that the (half height) wall still needs a head plate fixing at which one end is standing 'free' - that is the wall that will be on one side of the opening that I don't have anything to fix to.

That's right, it will have one but not fixed to the ceiling.

Thanks dextrous but in this case the wall doesn't have a top plate. The (starting) wall won't come up to the height of the ceiling and I won't have a top plate to fix to which is where I'm confused how to fix in that case.

Hi guys I've had some experience with building stud walls but always from floor to ceiling. I want to put up a stud wall that doesn't go to the ceiling, the resulting space will be used for wardrobes space. The wall will be fixed to an existing masonry wall and the span will be fixed to...

Hi guys Recently ripped out an old floor which wasn't put down well and which had also been damaged by a leak I'm now left with a few joists that look they have warped and twisted, one of which has slight movement also. Ripping out the joists and replacing them isn't really a road I want to...

MAC addressing is only good for keeping out passing trade shall we say. The MAC address can be cloned quite easily. I always change my network name and change the router not to broadcast it as well, then you need to know the name prior to connecting as well. What exactly is the problem with...