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Thanks for those suggestions. I'll compare the three and make a choice. Cheers

Thanks for that - I did wonder if "diamond" meant hard wearing!! I wish they wouldn't make up these damn silly names instead of jut using easily understandable words like "scrubbable" ....

Can anyone recommend a good durable/scrubbable magnolia emulsion - cost is an issue but I'd prefer a good result to saving a few quid. It is for the walls (about 40 sqm) of a room in which my parrots live - consequently it will get regularly covered with all sorts of food that they throw...

Sorry to be thick .... Do I seal over the "new" paint (which washes off) or do I have to wash back to the 'teflon' paint and seal that? Thanks

Some years ago I painted several internal walls with a B&Q matt emulsion containing Teflon (might have been called the "Lifestyles" range) to get a washable surface. It was a good enough paint, and fit for purpose. B&Q have since discontinued the range. About 5 months ago I over-painted...

That is the very question I'm asking myself! I have to get the blown wall redone (say 25m2) and I think I'll just aim at getting a good quality repair job done and pay to get some time spent making the repairs look as unobtrusive as possible on the rest to make sure it looks sound and is...

The elves will be safe, don't worry - I always pay attention to Elven safety :)

Phew, that was an anxious moment. For a while I thought I was screwed by this business of having to upgrade the insulation if I was repairing more than 25% of the render. Fortunately I had cavity wall insulation done by Warmfront and that will have reduced the u-value of the wall...

Thanks for that - and that IS the kind of tower I'm looking at - exactly the 'connection' you describe. Yup, it'll be easy enough to secure the tower to stop wobble, and I have some wire rope and turn-buckles I can construct bracing with. I think it'll save me a few hundred per job when I...

Now to me that's counter-intuitive. I'd have expected "heavy steel" to be more rigid than "light aluminium". Is it something about the joining method between sections or the bracing? The tower I'm looking at has swaged connections. I will be able to secure the tower to various...

Thanks for the tip, Nige F. I'm fortunate that next door is white with black trim and to my eyes it looks very 'clean'. I will ask them and find out if it was "brilliant white" they used or some 'off white" however. Ta muchly

Well, ta :) It should look a bit better when the bright green trim is changed to black and the house painted white (black garage door). I've always thought it to be awful, but my taste is often questioned! It does sound like it isn't worth many £k to put right. Ta again

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Looks like I should keep checking maybe, but I guess 6x4 is more available than a 2'6" wide tower,and that's the widest I can use becaue of access limitations.

Ahh. Oh. I confess I did think it would be something like that as I just wanted a cosmetic "dummy" solution to improve the looks as the roof itself is sound (done less than 6 years ago). "Quite a few £'000" is quite a lot and can be spent better elsewhere, I think! Thanks for the...

What a brilliantly concise post :) Thanks already sent!

It's an interesting idea and I shall have to see if there's a second-hand aluminium tower on ebay :) Update: sadly nothing similar height as a "Buy it now" and I can't be bothered with bidding on auctions when I actually need something :( Having said that, it's only two sides of the house...

I need quite a lot of work doing on the first storey of the house (fascias & soffits, render repair, painting) and it seems few if any tradespeople have their own working platform and need to buy-in scaffolding. I don't know if this is a "nice little earner" or not, but it struck me that...

I'm getting my house in good order to sell and move somewhere smaller, and the external render needs attention. The whole house is rendered in the same (well almost the same) textured finish and it's been regularly painted. There's an area of about 10m x 1.5m (the whole width of an...