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    External Wood Paint In Cold Weather

    They ain't lying about the drying time on that tin either. I used it for some internal wood, painted it in the morning and was still tacky nearing the midnight. If it's just about the drying time, i'll go and check out some with the least amount of drying time. Seems obvious now you mention...
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    External Wood Paint In Cold Weather

    Hi. I need to paint some outside wood really quickly. It was already painted but looking really old, I have sanded it back and wood filled any really dodgy areas and I have the following tin of paint ...
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    I'm a sorry this turned into a bit of a fight, it really wasn't the intention. For me, the advice to pull up the existing boards, replace firrings (even if there were any in the first place, doesn't seem so to me), replace the boards and then cover with EPDM seems reasonable. It's a roof...
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    I assume you are no longer coming round to view the property then albaPhenom? :p
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    And may they be very happy in it. :p
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    They might try. I will simply tell them they are looking at the wrong house, no sale.
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    I patched the spots with some roof sealant, bitumin type stuff I think it was, about 2 years ago or so but it's gone beyond that now, the boards absolutely are totally shot. It think it's probably a good shout to just take up the existing, put down some new boards and re-cover, leaving the...
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    I was thinking more along the lines of £50 all in. Just kidding. I know what you are saying regards the warm deck. My thinking on the other side was, I am sure I have read that to meet the U rating the warm deck has to be quite thick these days and so will heighten the roof to a point that...
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    Flat Roof Replace and Rough Cost

    Time is... i'll try not to swear! Something that should have really been done a while ago has got worse and, where did all the time go!!!??? I have a kitchen extension with an old style flat roof, it's pooling water and coming through into the kitchen. I'm no expert but I think it needs to be...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Indeed a decent time to discover the problems. Too many to list to be honest but glad they are found and we won't be sitting on this mess for much longer. Just a quick addition to what I already listed; check this picture out of one of the spurs found under the downstairs floorboards. Fancy...
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    Mitre Saw, True 90 Degree Cut Problem

    I was supposed to come back and update this but, just forgot. I am since this original thread happy with the cuts. I was doing a few things wrong to be fair, the following is what I do now when doing cuts I need perfect (or almost perfect)... *** Test my squares are still squared against a...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Rings off a ring also found since. Long story short, that rewire that wasn't going to happen for a few years, it is now going to happen very quickly. I am glad I came here originally to ask about the "pass through" idea which was originally an idea from an electrician who come round to price...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Haha, fair point winston1 :LOL:
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Ok, progress. I took onboard the inputs on this thread and went back again from the beginning, this time though just bit the bullet and pulled up floorboards and did some tracing to see what can be done to chop out the kitchen and extension from the main ring circuit, re-join just the house and...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    I was kinda hoping your idea was the way forward SUNRAY, hence why I went straight out with the scanner to work it out. Maybe I just got lost or our diagrams are over simplified in relation to the actual current ring circuit, I am not sure. I wish I could diagram the actual layout of the...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Food for thought here, appreciate the inputs. I have just been using a metal/cable scanner on the walls and using that with my memory of some wires when the edge of floorboards were up before carpet etc, trying to draw a picture of the ring how it is today but unfortunately, I lose the wire at...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Would you be able to advise off the bat though that it's not against regulations to begin with, what I was intending to do?
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Unfortunately the first socket coming out one side of the existing ring is the first socket in the kitchen so if I disconnect it, it goes nowhere else. This would have been a good solution. The rest of the layout is potentially very random so hence just trying to leave it in situ, the house...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Fingers crossed the attached picture explains far better than my words. The top diagram is the current ring main on the fuse box, it goes all around the house including the kitchen. I need a new CU immediately to replace the fuse box and would like the kitchen on its own circuit (dishwasher...
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    Ring Main Socket Pass Through & Cooker Circuit

    Sure no worries, I will draw a diagram shortly and post it. Please don't laugh if my drawing is a bit pathetic :)
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