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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    And I've got some ... I may try it on the front door frame which I've been burning off this morning. Thanks.
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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    Rubbed the garage door and frame down today, a coat of gloss black on the frame and a coat of oil based undercoat on the worst parts of the door. I’m wondering if there’s an outdoor fine filler available for painted metal - apart from Cataloy Paste - to level the paint thickness up where it had...
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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    Thank you John, I’ll try that Ray
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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    Thank you John, I'll watch out for that on the garage door. I wondered if the hard wood 1962 door frame was not allowing the undercoat to sink in? Where I've burnt it off it's showing the "pink primer" they used to use
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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    And strangely it’s something I always avoid, I try to get away with the thinnest coat. I'm presuming it's best to burn the paint off the door frame and just rub down the garage door ? They were both painted last in 2008, the same time as this bathroom skirting.
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    Cracked outdoor paint - Advice needed

    I'm re-painting the front door and steel garage door. Could you tell me the best way to prepare for undercoating and if there is any particular paint to use to lessen the chances of it happening. I always use oil based paint, I have an electric sander and a blow torch. Will I get away with...
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    Replacing a ceramic cartridge.

    No doubt it is screwed on then, there must be a shroud sized hole in the tap body to enable it to turn inside. Ray
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    Change Hive Controller to Sunvic TLX9201

    Thank you Stem, It is a single channel. I’ll ask about the Hive wiring and get back to you. Ray
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    Replacing a ceramic cartridge.

    Can you take a picture end ways on ... you would think the shape of the shroud would rule out it being screwed on. You will have checked there is no small grub screw underneath or at the back ?
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    Change Hive Controller to Sunvic TLX9201

    This is for a friend of mine ... he's hoping to remove an Hive controller from a Vaillant Combi Boiler and replace it with a Sunvic TLX9201 Room Stat. He'd be grateful of help with the most straightforward method of changing the wiring over. You won't be able to over simplify it :giggle...
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    I’m sure you’re right, there’s certainly no encouragement to explore not using the clips on the one I had, the back is just plain from one end to the the other with the 3 core cable emerging from somewhere. Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    Thank you John, I had the SFix one out of the box just out of curiosity … I noticed the two clips meant to be screwed to the ceiling for the unit to simply clip onto … it was only afterwards I wondered if it utilised the existing fluorescent box. Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    Have they made LED units that replace the bottom plate on a fluorescent fitting to save re-fixing to the ceiling… and if so was that one I got from Screwfix I wonder ?
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    Thank you for that Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    It was the tube that had failed as Rocky predicted, I had bought a SF £20 LED fitting just in case, which has since been returned. Thank you again for your help Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    I entirely agree with you John I’m calling for an obsolete tube and new LED fitting this this morning and one of them will be going back to SF Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    Thank you very much for the replies and for the link to Screwfix Ray
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    Thank you Rocky … could the tube have “gone“ and still light perfectly for a couple of seconds?
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    Help Required with Fluorescent Light fitting

    This is at a friends house a distance away, Single 5' Fluorescent new enough not to have a starter Turn the light on, it comes on perfectly normal, no flickering, then goes of after maybe 2 seconds Just have to wait a short while to do it again. It does it exactly the same each time. It won't...
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