Painting a garage floor
(3 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:53:48 +0100
I have just redecorated my garage...............just a lick of paint and a
tidy up ....but the floor is letting it down.
it has been painted in the past......is flaking off by the door where the
rain has hit it and penetrated ...
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Product to clean ceramic floor tiles?
(3 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:07:39 +0100
I've just had a new conservatory built and now I want to clean the ceramic
floor tiles. I've washed them several times but a mixture of plaster dust,
cement dust etc has got engrained on some of the tiles. Is there a product
anyone ...
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mortar joints
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:25:43 +0100
Can anyone help please. I have had lots of emails about the dpc cavity
tray. The only thing is when I remortar the joints on the horizontal cuts
between the bricks, do I just fill it with mortar? or should I pack the
joint ...
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mortar joints
(3 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:22:39 +0100
Can anyone help please. I have had lots of emails about the dpc cavity
tray. The only thing is when I remortar the joints on the horizontal cuts
between the bricks, do I just fill it with mortar? or should I pack the
joint ...
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Anyone Recommend a Good Tile Adhesive ?
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:31:27 GMT
Can anyone recommend a really good tile adhesive.
I'm having problems stopping the tiles falling off my space shuttle ! :-))
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Storm water drainage
(8 messages)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:18:59 GMT
I had my drive and part of my back garden block paved by a company
recently - big mistake!
After the recent rains, I had a deep pool of water, three quarters the
length of the house, rendering it impossible to use the back ...
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Concrete floor and laying 8mm radiator pipes?
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:38:10 +0100
We are hoping to move the sitting room radiator to another wall but this
would require the pipes to be laid in the floor which is concrete. Is this
possible? Would the concrete react with the copper pipes? Is there
something ...
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New Knife blades.
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:12:23 +0000 (UTC)
I have 6 silver dinner knives (ca. 1880) I would like to replace their
blades with stainless steel blades. Does anyone know of a company who can
carry out this work?
Any advice appreciated.
Peter
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Cleaning Brass
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:16:17 +0000 (UTC)
I have just tried to clean a brass door knocker by electrolysis. I place the
item in a plastic bath of salt water solution and then with a piece of
copper as the anode and the brass object as the cathode used at 12v battery ...
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Glass bricks
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:57:28 +0100
We are thinking of puting some glass bricks into an internal single brick
supporting wall possibly 5 bricks wide by 10 bricks tall. This would bring
in some welcome light into a dark windowless narrow hallway.
As stated ...
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cavity tray
(3 messages)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:09:18 +0100
I have just been told by the building inspector that because the outside
wall of my sons single storey extension will become an inside wall, we need
to fit cavity trays above the tiles at lead flashing level. He suggests ...
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hoover tumbledryer
(2 messages)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:52:37 +0000 (UTC)
Can you help please my tumbledryer which is a maxi 6 the belt has broken
which you can see from the rear of the machine how do you get at it? JOHN
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Gerat DIY Site
(4 messages)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:26:19 +0100
Found this site
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects.htm
Very good IMHO
Could almost form part of a FAQ ?
--
Vass
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Depot Assistant - Enfield, UK
(1 messages)
Date: 27 Jul 2005 02:54:00 -0700
Purpose of job: to assist in maintaining budgeted stocks and deploy the
means at his/her disposal to receive sales orders direct from customers
and execute their delivery with maximum efficiency and minimum delay.
Main Duties: ...
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MAKE LOADS OF MONEY FOR FREE
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:20:00 GMT
MAKE THOUSANDS!!!
I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care
about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says. All I
say is, it works. Continue pre-fab crap.
WELL GUESS WHAT!!!
Within ...
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rafter joint
(5 messages)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:38:42 +0100
Hope someone can help with this query. I had a visit from building
inspector who tells me I must secure the top of my rafter to a wall plate
100mm x 50mm (which is secured to wall with screws). The roof is a lean to
type ...
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Stripping wallpaper and repainting plans
(4 messages)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:01:41 +0100
Our house is around 13 years old and when we moved in we went a bit OTT
wallpapering the majority of the rooms. We now want to strip the
wallpaper and revert to painted walls.
All wallpaper is on a couple of coats of builders ...
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Dot & Dab
(4 messages)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:21:13 +0100
Can someone please give me a detailed lesson in dot & dab......Thanks :-)
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Beware Sto render and service.
(15 messages)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:46:53 +0100
Mr Turtill,
I thank you for the e-mail and pictures you sent.
I have looked into this matter, and regret to advise you that, as you
were
not our client on this project, for contractual reasons I am unable to
discuss this ...
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Drains
(11 messages)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:33:17 +0100
I want to cut into the soil pipe running from house to the main sewer on the
road, and add a 45 degree branch that will go to a new inspection chamber
and then to an outside toilet that I am going to install at the end of my
garage ...
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