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Is it really necessary to fill? Not done any filling/plastering yet and seems to require a lot of skill (based on reading the internet...:D) I'm guessing it's not worth trying to do a base coat and hoping it won't show up on the new paint? Tried to put a hot air gun on the paint to flake...

Stripped the wallpaper, and then some of the paint under the wallpaper flaked off with it. The rest of the paint isn't coming off with a scraper. I've tried sanding (home orbital sander) a bit of the wall (picture 1) and it seems to come out ok. But there is a lot of wall and this is only...

Thanks for the response, I'm completely new to this 1) the boiler is combi boiler (viessmann 200) 2) Yes, want to have the pipes surface mounted down to the thermostatic mixer. Have had a look at a few on the internet but they all seem to have the in for the mixer concealed, only the flow...

Getting a new shower unit in a corner of the bathroom. Will be approx 1200mm x 1200mm (more or less). Boiler will be in loft, directly above the bathroom (same wall for the shower), looking for an external thermostatic mixer that can be exposed, don't really want to box the pipes in. All...

quotes all in writing. this isn't a mate of a mate looking for some pocket money. Just a bit confused as everyone else had +VAT on quotation except his.

Never had to deal with all this before so even tradesmen being vat registered or not is a new thing :oops: I didn't even realise there was a threshold until I started looking it up. Thanks for all the help, we await references from the non-vat man.

Does it matter if they are VAT registered or not? Had a few quotes and all of them included VAT bar one who said he wasn't. He was cheapest (due to not charging VAT). Any advice?

Thanks everyone, will ask the viessman man about it then. I didn't want to start the process of getting the prices and then finding out he had quoted the best one for me

Hi all, We're in the process of replacing things in the house and the back boiler has to go. We've had 4 quotes and am planning to go with one but he installs viessmann. I've read plenty of threads on here and it seems to be highly regarded so think we'll be ok. The main question is if...