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Awsome! Thanks Roy! It's the long side of a bath wall. Will be cement boarding, ranking and tiling. Tiles are up at the 20kg/sqm mark with adhesive and grout added, hence the cement boarding. Will be fixing the boards with Mapei keraflex maxi and mechanical fixing (Fischer ux x 40mm plugs...

Hi all, Wondered if I might get some advice on preparing an old bonding(?) coat for a re-skim of finish plaster. Would SBR be suitable as a bonding agent? Here is a pic of the bonding coat I will be going over. Most of the current finish coat has blown and will be coming off...

I emailed their support today to ask if the boards could be stuck to my walls with their failing skin coat and exposed bonding, stating I would be removing any unsound skim that might reveal a lot of not a complete wall of bonding plater. This is the response I got... >>> The 6mm NoMorePly...

I am in the same boat! Wondering if I am going to have to re-skim before I can put backing board on via dot and dab and plug and screw. Maybe their special glue attaches to bonding...? Have you tried calling the no more ply team? Was in tile giant today to see if any of the chaps there...

Roger that. Thanks for your advice.

It's an internal wall, bathroom on the chased side, bedroom on the other. 10mm of bonding on the blocks, and a skim of finishing plaster (all be it blown and in terrible condition bathroom side). Same the other side, but plaster is sound and has lining paper on. Was thinking match what's...

Hi all, Long story, but I have ended up with two deep chases in a 50mm part-hollow cinder block wall (not load bearing). Want to fill them back in to regain as much of the structural strength as possible. What is best to fill them with? They are approx 30mm deep in places. Mortar? I have some...

Would be a great solution, but simply do not have that kind of money to spare :( Thinking the best way to solve the issue is to stud out a small box on the exterior wall in cement board - which I think we are going to have to use on the walls as the plaster is shocking, blown all over the...

Because the first layer into the hollow was so thin, it pretty much vanished. Will cementing the chase back in not re-strengthen the wall back again? I also noticed this morning that the current shower feeds (from a pump) vibrate a little. Not sure I want to be putting them in a weakened...

Hi all, Wonder if I might beg some expert advice. I am re-doing our bathroom, which involves moving the in-bath shower from one end to the other. To achieve this I started to chase into the exterior wall at the end of the bath. After removing a load of blown bonding plater I revealed that...

Roger that! Makes perfect sense. Just checked, airing cupboard switched fuse fed from consumer has 3A in it. So will just run 5 core from airing to boiler in advance of install. Thanks for all your advice!

Confused now. Currently there is a fused spur in the airing cupboard, fed from consumer unit, that powers timing unit, pump, ultimately boiler off switched live. I thought best practice for boiler replacement was to run a twin and earth to boiler from there...and fuse switch it by the...

Awesome, I had heard of tapping the N off the 10 poll junction box in the airing cupboard. I will be wanting a DP 3 amp switched fuse box as well I assume? Best to put boiler side I have read, so people can isolate directly at boiler end in the future. Doesn't this mean the 6 amp rated 5...

Hi chaps/chappettes, Finally having our archaic 30+ years old boiler replaced for a sparkling new Bosch Worcester 18ri. In the interest of being as prepared and knowledgeable as I can be for when the gas safe installer comes to do the deed, I have been looking at potential pitfalls...and I...

Cheers for the responses :) The ones I have been looking at come with AC power adapters, but I am not sure I want to be fuse spuring a socket off the lighting circuit. I am pretty sure that is not good practice. Why not just spur off the upstairs ring main? I want it to only be on when...

Hi chaps/chappettes, Wonder if I could get a bit of knowledge about the best way to rig up an audio amp in my loft. I want to drive a pair of speakers from a small audio amp (12v, 2amp : peak amp output is 2x20W), but only want the amp 'on' when the lights are on. Can I treat it the same...

Here we go... Apologies for the crudity of the diagram, didn't have time to draw it to scale...yada yada yada :-p

We sometimes get the pump doing an 'onnnn, offff, onnnn, offff, onnnnn, offfff' kinda thing when turning the shower off. Takes some turning it back on and changing the temp full cold, full hot...then water flow off, to stop it. Maybe linked? We have been in the house 4 years and had no...

100% sure. They drop into the room below, through a wall and into the shower. I thought they are air bleed vents. We have one in the airing cupboard that likes to hiss when I have draing end re-filled the central heating system in the past.

Hi chaps/chapettes, Just been crawling around in our tiny loft space after the better half noticed water running down a bedroom wall! The offending piece can be seen in the picture below. It is at the top of the drop down to the shower. The pipes come from the shower pump in the airing...