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Hi, I am leveling part of our kitchen floor, taken up 2 layers of laminate and removed lose laminate tiles. Having slapped on some pva/water mix and left it to dry over night I have found a small pool, 30cm*30cm, of water has formed this morning. I dried it off and re-applied (thought one...

Hi, I want to remove a radiator from the central heating system, on a temp basis - to be replaced after walls are plastered and new kitchen fitted. Am I correct in thinking I can simply cut the feed and return and loop the feed back to the return? Cheers! Ste

That sounds like our walls! Needed to get capping covered so the electrician could put fronts on and test the install so bonded back to the same level and skimed to the existing finish level. For any none pro out there thinking of taking this on themselves, I must say, not as easy as doing a...

Apologies, was not sure when I posted if I was hijacking! :I The bathroom is pretty small, maybe 2.5m by 2m, the bath/shower is against 1 wall with the spots in a triangle - one in line with the middle edge of the bath The electrician doing the rewire wants me to get low voltage so I guess...

You mentioned spots. In our bathroom we have an extractor fan and window. Even with both active, the shower is pretty good at kicking out steam. We are just coming to the end of a rewire and the sparky has informed me that the IP65 mains rated shower spots I purchased for the room are no...

Hi, Just after some advice about plastering up the chasing after a total house re-wire. The capping sits on top of either brick or breeze block and a bonding and finish coat is evident. My thoughts were to 2 coats of pva...bond back over the capping to the same level, leave to dry (2...

Measuring it, it is 8mm. Thanks for the advice chaps, think I will opt for the freezing and braze option. Ste

Yes, yes, every radiator in the house has twin pipes at a single end. So just put a valve on each end and connect up? How long does freezing last? Long enough to cut and re-solder? Cheers! Ste

Hi chaps, We are overhauling the whole kitchen and our plans mean we need to remove a radiator (length 1.8m). Not wanting to lose a radiator in the room (6m x 3m) we want to put one back in on the adjacent wall (not as big, planning on a 1.2m radiator). So, to the questions... New double...

Hi chaps, It will be a paint or paper finish depending on the condition of the other walls! It is a 6m by 3m room mostly papered at present, don't fancy skimming a nice finish on all walls! Ste

Hi, Just ripped down some nasty old tiles in the kitchen and a fair bit of the plaster came with some of the tiles. It I were to skim back over this, would it be ok to leave any firmly fixed plaster there? Or is it best to get the lot off and do the whole wall with a couple of fresh coats...