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House is late sixties, plaster is sound. Paint is probably 10 or 20 years I would say.

Hi guys, In need of some advice here. I had to repaint a wall and there were a few bubbly areas where the paint had bubbled and cracked. As I started to prepare the wall, the paint was just peeling away in large sheets back to the plaster. The bare plaster is dry and there are no damp issues...

Thanks, I'll give that a go. Don't worry, no metal switch.

The problem I've got is that I can't get a new back box in because the tiles have boxed it in.

Just a follow up to this. The metal box is one of those old types with the thread being a piece of plastic that is wedged into the metal box. On one side it's completely broken so I can't even re-thread it. Do you know where I could but the replacement plastic threaded bits to slot in or what...

Excellent, many thanks.

Hi, I have a loose light switch plate. I am unable to tighten the screws because the thread is worn on the metal box which is embedded into the wall. I am unable to replace the metal box as it has been tiled over. Any ideas what I can do here? Happy to supply photo if that helps.

Thanks guys, so what's the story with PVA in terms of why I shouldn't use it?

Hi Dec, Do you mean that the plaster wasn't sealed before the paint was applied. That's probably about right in this house. I think the paint goes back to the 70's. Should I just PVA the plaster then paint over it. How can I make it blend in with the painted area in terms of height...

Hi guys, I had some horrible wallpaper which I stripped which came off quite easily. On part of the wall it also took away a couple of layers of paint and went back to the plaster. This paint came away easily in this area but now I can't get the paint off the rest of the wall using only a...

Blimey, it's working again now!! What I had done was moved the shower head up the pole more so that the shower came from higher up. I moved it back down then wriggled it around and now it works! Maybe there was some sort of air lock or something?

Moved in a few weeks ago and it has been working perfectly. Nothing has changed. I have removed the flexible hose completely to see if there was a blockage but still no water comes out.

Thanks guys. We've just moved into a new property so I don't even know where the controller box is but there's a noise coming from the loft so I'm guessing that it's up there somewhere.

Been working fine up until now, but now it's just stopped working. The unit has an on/off button and a boost button. The lights on both of these buttons work when you switch them on and off but no water comes out. You can hear the pump or whatever it is whirring away when you switch it on...