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You were right - thank you so much!! Excellent

Thank you!! - I'll go and get the paint off and see if I can prize them off...

Hiya, thank you for reading this :-) I want to take my bannister off to replace it and it's held up, I think, by the screws in the photo which are in twos at intervals along the length of it. I'm only guessing they're screws - could be anything?! I have no clue! Please could someone tell me...

You could try just sanding the affected area and seeing what happens or doing what Wayners suggested? Very best of luck with it, whatever you choose to do

OMG!! Hilarious!!!! :-)

I was going to say the same thing - sand lightly with fine sandpaper. I had a plasterer do this year's ago and I asked him to come back and fix it and he did the thinnest skim on top of the affected area to get rid of it. I think I'd just sand now though just to save the hassle. Hope you find it...

You can't tell from looking, unfortunately. The paint in our house all contained asbestos - really annoying.

Aw, well very best of luck with it :-) I hope she feeds you lots of biscuits for being a lovely grandson!!

It could also be that they put a silk/satin/eggshell paint on- is the paint that's coming off slightly more shiny than ordinary Matt emulsion? Or if you paint over it, does it start to bubble or peel? If it does, that sucks, because you'd probably need to sand it (or scrape it) so you can start...

They didn't fully ban asbestos until 1999 so any builders built before 2000 could have asbestos in them. We had asbestos in our house and it was built in 1987 - very annoying!! Particularly as it was only added to the paint to make the swirls and that horrid pointy icicle shaped pattern that...

Hi Akist, I'm not a carpenter, just a DIYer, so I'm interested to see what any carpenters say to you. I have built stud walls and made door openings and hung doors etc and my feeling is that you could brace it enough so it would be structurally sound with enough screws and support from the...

I'm going to start a new thread as my original query has been answered and I've got a new one. Thank you so much, Folks!!

Definitely doesn't seem horrible to me :-) Thank you for the explanation :-)

Got it - thank you :-)

... although... BernardGreen and EFLImpudence have said there isn't really a safety issue with choosing 4mm over 2.5mm cabling in terms of shock or fire hazards, so is there a benefit to having bigger cables that would make the initial outlay worth it? This stuff makes my head spin so I didn't...

Thank you so much, All!! Reading everyone's responses, I think maybe I've started by asking the wrong question. My ideal would be to do as securespark said and use 2.5 radials. Please could someone tell me what... I don't even really know what question to ask... It's something like - if you...

Nope, I'm honestly not great at applied mathematics so I'm not confident about what I need. From reading around, my (basic) understanding is that insulation causes issues and the house is packed with the stuff so I thought (quite possibly incorrectly) that we would need the bigger sized cables...

Thank you - I shall hunt the article down :-) My only question about that (which would obviously be the best of both worlds) is that every wall and ceiling in the house is packed with insulation (for sound reasons) so I wasn't sure if this would rule out 2.5mm radials?

Thank you for the info!! And this is why I could never be an electrician!! I don't know how people get their heads around these sorts of calculations involving voltage drops etc and can just trot them out - most impressive when you see people do it!! My electrician is excellent so I'll...

That made me laugh once I got Google translate on the case!! Please can I ask, did you put a ring in the kitchen because of them being movable?