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We live right on the coast with strong winds blowing heavy rain against the house. The house is built of cobbles of different sizes (jointed with lime mortar) and a 1950s extension of concrete bock and cement mortar. All the outside walls are wet dashed (small beach pebbles about 6mm mixed...

Thanks for the heads up on the overflow and insulation installers. Ill check that tomorrow. cheers

How very dare you. My pump is not a racist... :wink: Seriously though, I think it was probably a bit of both....sticking pump and air locks from draining down. The house is quite old with downstairs internal walls 2' thick so the downstairs pipe work from 1 side of the house to the other...

thanks for the responses guys. I bled all the rads until water came out. All the valves are open. The system is a simple system I think. We have an Unidare Jetmatic oil fired boiler downstairs (quite cheap through The Farmers guardian about 15 years ago) and little used because of the price...

We dont use the CH much (its oil fired BTW). In fact it hasnt been on for over 12 months. I have just drained down the system to fit a new rad on one of the down stairs room (its the lower rad in the house). All connected now but when i fired up the boiler some of the down stairs rads (new one...

Thanks for that. Ill go for the cheaper option then: Secil 3.5 from Mike Wye in Devon. :D

Cheers Stuart. Good tip, will remember that. Will the Hanson stuff be different to the Secil stuff or is there nothing in it?

Thanks for that Oldun. I have never used Lime mortar before and Im looking forward to it. I can get Hanson NHL 3.5 for £12 Locally and Secil NHL 3.5 from Mike Wye for £7.90. With delivery there is only £50 in it. If you were doing the job, which would you prefer to use, Hanson or Secil...

Speaking to a supplier today who says that his NHL 3.5 is english (£13 +vat) and all the continental NHL 3.5 is rubbish and hard to use. But the stuff from Mike Wye is 2/3 the price (£8.65 +vat).?????? Any experience from you guys?

No it's not. You need lights that meet specific specs for different regions of the bathroom. Go to B&Q's lighting dept and pick up a leaflet. It will tell you all you need to know. I have lights actually in the shower, but they are spec'ed up for it.

Thanks all. To answer as many questions as possible: * We live on the coast of Cumbria and the field walls here are of smooth round beach stone/pebbles. Typically 2"-3" x 6"-8". * Natural England (who are part funding this) have specified Lime Mortar because that is the original construction...

Internal non load bearing wall: i'd use timber studding every time. In fact, I did the same thing in my own bedroom 8 years ago. Very large bedroom that we split into bedroom and large en-suite. All timber studded (3"x2" scant) from which I fitted a hand basin, a walk in shower clad in 10mm...

Cheers mate. Thanks for that. Having done a bit more research I should have been a bit more specific with my question: should I use hydraulic 3.5 and mix it dry with sand (as you would with Portland cement) or Hydrated and make a wet putty to mix wet with sand? So far I am leaning towards...

I often find that they can sometimes need a thump under the bottom corners to free them off from the wall brackets they are hanging on.. Easier than just pushing until they break free. Hope that helps.

Hi there and hello, I am handy with most things and I have stone field wall to rebuild. The stone is smooth beach pebbles and the mortar has to be lime mortar rather than the usual dry stone field wall. The more I read about lime mortar the more confusing it becomes. I have about 90m (by...