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Cheers, Andy. Will flag it up with the builder.

Hi Just had a new kitchen fitted with all new sockets and wiring. Have noticed when the microwave is running and the kettle is turned on (the kettle is plugged in the socket next to the microwave) that the microwave sounds like its loosing power, like an electric motor sounds when a battery is...

Any other suggestions on a system to redirect an airbrick from one side of an under floor void to another? And is this the sort of change that a surveyor would take interest in when we sell the house? Thanks

Cheers for the reply, Woody. Under floor void. The room next to the kitchen (back lounge) now has ventilation on the right hand side only via an air brick around the side of the house. The overall width of this void is approx. 17 foot. The air brick on the right is approx 2 foot from the right...

We're updating our kitchen and have had the room the previous one was in stripped out, walls back to bare brick and the flooring taken up. The old kitchen floor was a slab with old terecotta style tiles on top and a step up into a laundry room with a wooden floor and a void underneath. The void...

That's not what happened Andy. The first 4 days he was on-site, 2 days actual work as he kept making excuses and leaving the job, my wife was at home. This was before the heavy sanding started. So was stripping wall paper and filling the walls and 2pac-ing the doors. His standard of work we...

Heh!

I don't supose you do decorating do you foxhole?! ;)

This. He had the initial down payment, which broke down at about £200 a day for the days he was on-site, so not really.

Cheerio troll and welcome to the ignore list.

Yes, very unlucky. On the plus side our boiler engineer, family bathroom fitter and the last sparks we had in were all really good.

Yep, we had several conversations with him about him taping up the doors to keep dust out of the rooms. We accepted that, with the doors taped up, a little bit of dust would get into the rooms, ie. directly under the door, was unavoidable. He make a token gesture to clean all the dust in the...

It wasn't light hand sanding, it was power sanding of walls and doors on a 100 year old house, the sort that produces a dust cloud so that you can't see your hand in front of your face. Also the doors are slightly warped, so don't close fully on the door stop. The decorator accepted no...

That's actually quite funny. (claps). Used these lot. Very handy for anyone else having retarded decorator/ builder dust troubles.

This is a **** take I take it.

His phone is on answer machine. Have left a message asking him to call. The damage is done, leaving it till Monday, wont make that much difference.

Hi Can you recommend a good emergency cleaning company that covers South London (SW19) - ideally to start Monday. Just come home to find our decorator, that was power sanding our hall some how forgot to tape up all the doors that lead off the hall way and subsequently all of the rooms have...

A couple of dimmers that a builder fitted a year or so ago, when they did a loft conversion for us, are starting to fail. The light flickers on/off when dimming and usually switches off when left on a dimmed setting. I gather the ones they fitted are very cheap, all be it to UK standard...

Yeah it's a similar shade to this http://fashionjunqui.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/thejunqui_santa_jcrew.jpg?w=590 But with a less yellow tint.

Hi all Been trying to find some furniture to match our rubberwood bed without success - not much of a selection for rubberwood furniture. Would it be possible to stain pine furniture to match rubberwood? Would have to find pine furniture with a similar grain - no nots etc. And do...