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Concreate, are you mad, that would make life easy!! :roll: Wooden block and plaster over was my "everything else has failed, going to to have get the chisel out"plan, was hoping to avoid that, but good to know it wasn't a dumb idea to start with, Thanks Big-All!

Now, here's the other problem, the lintel behind the plaster, over the glazing unit, appears to be a hollow metal box affair, that isn't going to help at all if I drill into it, as that was my first plan, fix into the lintel with a longer screw, but noooooo, that would be far to easy :D

Thanks Nestor, thats what I thought at first, but tried that already (job was even done by a Pro whilst plastering the room), however, the hole is kinda conical shaped, and the refilled/plastered area pulls straight back out when ever any weights put on it. Would putting a couple of screws into...

Hi, I'm after a filler for a plaster wall that will fill to a depth of approx 50mm, and will set and bind strong enough to screw a load bearing bracket into (curtain pole). There's no other place to fix the bracket, and the areas been filled and refiled so many times there's just no strength in...

I had a rat, bugger ate my rolling pin for gods sake! Anyway, put down a rat trap £2.50 from local CWG store, rat was dead within 90 minutes, problem solved! :twisted:

Cheers mate :D

Hi, I've just had a room reskimmed, and I'm going to be sticking up some coving (paper covered polystyrene), what I'd like to know is would it be detrimental, to either the skim or the coving adhesive, if it was stuck up before the skim is totally fully dry (it will have had 4 days to dry out...

It's actually covered very well after the second coat with a very smooth finish :) I assume there is some disadvantage to trade paints :?: Are they harder to apply for an talentless amateur like myself :?: Not cheaper than free either though are they, although I imagine it's going to be...

They promise it will cover in one coat or your money back. It didn't (close, but no cigar), but they did give me my money back straight away with no hassle, so free paint, can't argue with that :D Much better customer care than I got from ICI :x

I had the misfortune of using it last weekend, it was a terrible product, a real pig to apply, left ridges all over the wall, didn't really cover the defects it's meant to and left my walls looking like they'd been poorly Artexed. Had to sand down the walls, should have just bunged on a coat...

Oh yes, it worked :twisted: :twisted: Got the fluffy fecker last night about 10:00pm :twisted: 25cm from nose to rats-ass, plus the tail :shock: :shock: Cheers for the advice guys, also found where it got in, so thats been stuffed with wire wool, and will be mortered over tonight...

I wish Franco had mine shot :D

Ah, thats interesting, I was concerned about the odour of fetid rat as well, but enough of my personal hygiene problems :oops: I've got myself a couple of rat traps with the "hilarious" name of Big Cheese :roll: , and am going to set those tonight baited with a bit of bacon and wait and see...

Thank you for the expected Fawlty Towers lines :lol: :lol: Luckily we do not have a health inspector arriving soon! We have airbricks that are at ground level, how big a hole can a rat get though?? Depends on the size of the rat I guess! I've read a mouse can get through a pencil sized...

....what am I gonna do? Seriously, anyone got any tips on evicting my new found furry friend? Hairy sod appears to be nesting in the base of quite immoveable dishwasher, and coming out at night eating my spuds. Any tips on good traps, good bait, and how stop him inviting his friends to the...

Blimey, I've just posted my first post with a problem with the same boiler, we get red hot water out the tank as well, with no obvious means of controlling it. Also Our upstairs rads come on with the Water Only option, do you have this problem as well?

Hello, new to this, be gentle. I've moved into a house with a problem with central heating. When controller is switched to "Water Only" I get very hot water, but also, the radiators upstairs all come on as well. When switched to "Water and Heating" All the radiators come on as you'd expect...