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    Slipped slates on gable verge? How big a job?

    Thanks for the recommendation, the hall hooks do look a lot less intrusive visually! Are they also better at holding them? There are holes for nails as one that has fallen off has the hole and I can see a hole through one which has rotated out of position. Any advice regarding dry verge...
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    Slipped slates on gable verge? How big a job?

    Thanks for the reply, appreciate it. Though the access bit would be the pain part of it. I’ve had a few saying that they will lead tag them back in place and use CT1 adhesive too. Does that seem like an appropriate solution. I know the lead tag is what I’d expect, but I’d always read that be...
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    Slipped slates on gable verge? How big a job?

    Hi all. The recent winds battered our into wind gable ends and one of the verges in particular has suffered. The house consists of a double gable, one of which has much narrower cut slates on the verge, which I’m guessing because they are smaller havent as much to secure them to the roof...
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    Problem pressure bleeding VW Up!

    It's a Sealey VS820 I'm using. It was the rear brakes that seemed worse, but I thought I'd try a front one to see if it might be a blockage etc, but it bled pretty much just as poorly. Don't really understand how the pressure isn't carrying through.
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    Problem pressure bleeding VW Up!

    Evening all. I'm trying to pressure bleed an Up! and having issues with the flow rate of the fluid out the bleed valves. The official manual says 29psi, so that's what I've pumped the system to. Once pressurised, upon opening the bleeds (all the same) the fluid very slowly fills the drain...
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    Problems with silicon - its peeling!?

    Thanks for the info. Makes sense. I have a window frame that has some patches. Again thats plasterboard but this time to upvc frames. Any way of avoiding it in this case?
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    Problems with silicon - its peeling!?

    Morning everyone. Have a question regarding some silicon i did about a year ago. Its to seal in a bathroom between a plasterboard wall with the usual thin skim and then a water based paint on top, and a wooden panel finished in an water based gloss. Now the gloss side seems to be...
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