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Hello, I have had an extension built with bifolds along two elevations coming together to a steel corner post on which the RSJ's sit/are fixed. The corner post is inset from the outside line of the bifolds and i need to insulate the corner post befroe the outer flashing/cladding goes on. Can...

Hello, I had my ceiling re-skimmed and have then fitted supercove lightweight coving using the supercove adhesive/filler. The adhesive states it is overpaintable but when i have been prepping to paint the ceiling i notice there is a band around the edge of the plaster that doesn't turn darker...

Hi, I've recently fitted new skirting and architraves in a few rooms. Some of my joints are slightly poor and I have some gaps like the photo. What is the best products to fill these gaps? I am assuming something that allows movement?? Thanks

Hello, I have a kitchen ceiling which has been freshly painted with white paint and has a nice uniform finish. During installation of an extractor fan some marks have been left on the ceiling. I've tried wiping them but it's affected the texture in those areas. I plan to roller the full ceiling...

All, About 18 months to 2 years ago i had an extension built onto my exisitng house. The existing house is block and beam with air bricks on all sides of the house. It didnt occcur to me at the time but now looking back at some old photos i can see that some of the air bricks have been...

Hello, I have recently had wet underfloor heating installed round the full ground floor and I am still trying to get my head round how best to run it. At the moment, each of the UFH zones is controlled with a Hive thermostat which monitors room temperature and then cuts the UFH in and out as...

Hello, After some advice. I have a house with ufh downstairs and a liquid screed. I saw it being put in and there was 150mm insulation under the screed with 25mm perimeter insulation around edges. Where my floor meets front door, bufolds etc., it feels much colder and gradually gets back to...

Hello, I have my final labc sign off inspection on Monday for a kitchen extension. I have presented the electrical works building regs certificate in advance and the gas safe but wanted to know if the building regs inspector will have an issue if all the light fittings are not yet in place. For...

Hello, I have a house where the downstairs floor is entirely wet ufh and the upstairs is radiators. The UFH has its own manifold with mixer/thermostatic valve and individual zone controls. The upstairs rads are then on a separate zone. All the system is fed from an ideal vogue system 32...

Had new windows fitted about 12 months ago and finally getting round to decorating one of the rooms. Anyway a chunk of the plaster in the top right corner of the window reveal has come away. What would the best material to back fill this and then fill over with be? The gap at the top where you...

Hi, I have built a bulkhead above a kitchen island for extractor etc. out of MDF on a timber frame. Due to the size of the bulkhead i have had to make it out of two sheets of MDF. What would be the best recommended filler for the joint between the two sheets to make it both unnoticeable when...

Hello, I have fitted some coving to my room after plastering. The coving is fixed secure with no movement but where the coving sections join, it looks like a very fine crack has reappeared. What would the best way to stop this coming back be? My thoughts were to rake the crack out slightly...

Hello, I have a tiled bathroom where the porcelain tiles are stuck to plasterboard which is dot and dabbed onto breezeblock inner leaf of the wall. I need to fix a cabinet to the wall and want to know what the recommended plug/fixing would be for this type of wall? I cannot guarantee I can put...

Hello, I have recently had my kitchen freshly plastered. I left the plaster 8 weeks to dry and then went round filling and flattening any cracks and defects before mist coating. For the cracks i raked them out to a 'V' shape with a stanley knife and then filled with easi fill and filled again...

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this. I have had my kitchen plastered and now are ready for mist coating. Like always, there was something i forgot to do before the plastering was done and i remembered just as the plasterers completed! Anyway, this job involved me using a 150mm...

Hello, I have recently had most of my house replastered. The plasterer has done a very neat job but i notice in most of the window reveals where the plaster either meets the door or the window, there are very fine hairline cracks appearing. They dont move back into the plaster but are more on...

Hello, I have had a couple of rooms plastered and there are a few hairline cracks as expected. Question is should these be filled before or after mist coating? If I do it before mist coating will this cause the moisture in the filler to be sucked to the plaster and cause filler shrinkage? Thanks

Hello, My house currently has pine skirting boards and architraves which have been stained with some almost orange coloured stain. As you can imagine it is hideous and i want to get rid of it. The skirtings and architraves are all about 20 years old and have been installed since house build...

I have an area of plaster near the corner where two walls meet where a strip approx 8mm wide is loose. Ive raked it out and it appears there is scrim tape behind there, but the plasterboard looks to have been cut too short when installed (see photos). What would the best way to fill this be to...

Hello, I have installed MDF skirtings and architraves to a room and have fixed these using countersunk screws in places where the walls arent straight and adhesive isnt covering it. I have used ronseal 2 part wood filler to fill the holes and sanded back. When i came back to the holes a...