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Evening folks. Looking for real life experience or advice from those in the know. I have a fairly large kitchen window that I want to replace with a single pane window that can open for ventilation. The aperture measurements: W: 1,770mm external, 1,730mm internal H: 1,050mm external...

So my trial fill with a solid filler cracked a little while after it set. I'm guessing that this is because of temperature changes causing the window frame to expand and contract. So my current plan is to fill the large holes in the corners with expanding foam, make the current plaster line...

It's a little cold but no breeze. I think I can build up layers of a filler then sand.

Cheers for the reply. I have this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000TAVWR6 that I bought for replacing the sealant with (acrylic and paintable) but didn't have in mind filling big gaps with it, is this the stuff you mean? Or more like http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/190127 ? Is it...

Evening :) I wanted to remove mouldy and cracking sealant from around a double glazed window and replace it. I expected the sealant to be just a shallow bead but it turns out that it was used to fill all the way around the windows about 6mm, but also filling some pretty large holes at the...

Thanks John, this is what I feared :( As for the thermostatic valves, they all appear to have and arbitrary numeric scale rather than an actual temperature, have I got that right or am I looking at the wrong things?

Thanks for the reply, I did try that, doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Evening. First time house owner, first time radiator owner... I have two radiators that leak at the valve when they're turned fully off. I've read that you can repack the spindle with PTFE tape and have watched a couple of youtube videos but the valves in the video don't look the same. Is...