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Yeah, sorry :oops: , I think I'll start a new thread. I was looking round for threads to stick beads to external corners with adhesives, rather than plaster or screws. But i guess the same would apply for around any window reveals?

I was thinking pre plastering... I guess the actual question is: " are any good grab adhesives out there to fix angle beads which can't be screwed or nailed?" "or woiuld they all do the job?"

If the room has an external corner in it, like a dog leg room, would it be ok to use the aformentioned grab adhesive ti stick any beading on it, rather than trying to fix it with the plaster?

once the free period is over they'll ask if you want to renew, don't bother and they'll get another free credit thing, and be put you on a pay as you go type tariff, no quaterly bill, but it costs a fortune to get the details of the lead. I ended up with two free credit things, each time i...

why, or more interestingly, how has the plasterboard been cased? Surely the wires would have been run behind the plasterboard as it 's only going to be 12.5mm thick maximum? :? thats not much left once the cable is buried...

Get your self down do the builders merchant you want at least 50x50 batons over the top of the existing joists (running at right angles) then board over the top. depending on the height of the roof pitch you can either get loft boarding packs or 2400x600 boards to lay as a floor. if you put...

If the original space was a garage, and it's been turned into an ensuite, either the previous owner had the biggest ensuite in the worl made or he didn't own a car..... Simply put... how do you park a car in an ensuite? :? how long is the living space?

Cheers guys, thants a great help :D :D . I did wonder if it would be deeper, or the face plate bigger. Great help. I'll make sure he puts an extension plate over the top.....Otherwise he'll be pulling out lumps of plaster from the back box!! :o ! does the extension plate screew on the same...

I have had a shaver socket installed in the wall, which is ready to be plastered over...... my question is do these normally get set back further than a normal socket box? The guy who put it in the wall has set it about the twice the depth of the back box. I was guessing that he would need...

I'm not sure which area to post this, so i've gone for this one. The problem is that the old family bathroom, is now the Ensuite. Everything has been moved round, and there are three hole in the brickwork where the sink, toilet and bath were. the partiton wall between the ensuite and the...

But surely you can be a jack of all trades, and a master of some, or even ONE?? How many tradesmen out their can do another trade? i bet there are plenty of non plumbers out there who can bend a near-perfect ninety and solder it up to a t junction - albeit with two inches of solder? How...

I'm currently replastering the reveals around a window. It was all "wibbly-wobbly" so have taken it all back to the sand/cement float to put beads up......... Along the top of the frame the skim coat of plaster was approx 5/8 of anch thick, and now it' sall gone the is a 1/2" gap between the...

What would expect from somebody YOU paid to do a job for you?

My neighbour is a "builder" his sign says: [persons Name] Building services extentions, patios, driveway, etc. The first time i saw it, i couldn't keep a straigh face, he said " it was the writers fault - they can't spell! two years later it's still on there :oops:

I'm after making up two 30m extension leads to go from the transformer at the house down to the bottom of the garden, and a four way splitter, I've found the plugs and sockets on fleabay, and the guys at work are going to make them up and have them PAT tested...... but... 1. Does anyone...

Don't you mean 12 "pin"?? :P

Cheers, is there anything out there you'd recommend, or should i be looking for a 16Ga gun (Don't really want to pay more than about £125-£150, if i can help it...having said that a paslode WOULD be rather nice 8)

Is anyone able to vouch for these? I'm looking at one for maybe going round door and window frames, dado/picture rails, skirting and the tops of kitchen cupboards - but not sure how good it's likely to be! - anyone have/used one in these situations, or rate them?

:D that was in fact going to be "plan B"... Just wondered if it would be possible. He's alredy got the screws, but i have access to an autofeed, so if it's possible i was thinking make up a couple of strips, lift the board, attach it with the autofeeder, then go back and secure it. Might...

In answer to the first comment, yes.. has anyone every refilled the plastic strip with screws/ know if it's possible to for an autofeed drywall screw gun. In answer to the second comment. Feel free, but thats not really an a constructive answer to a perfectly legitimate question is it?