Home DIY

Cheers, I'll investigate further but I think the answer is that it's flat /and/ sloping.

Nice recommendation, thank you.

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So a good strategy for removing it is hot water and a stiff broom. Since it softens, you can agitate it until it is in solution and sweep it off the surface, then wash vigourously. Great job for a spring/summer day. Not so much December.

It's pretty normal to scribe them to the floor in kitchens I'm making. Same with skirting boards.
Place the plinth on the floor and mark the undulations, cut that with a jigsaw. Now it's scribed to the floor cut a straight line to match the line of the bottom of the cupboards. Allow a little wiggle room.

I like to add the special plastic strip under the plinth material as it stops them sucking up moisture and covers any ragged edges from the jigsaw.

Other retailers are available.

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I hope that the advice to stir it before distilling a smaller amount into the paint pot has reached everyone.

Zinnser 123+ does not hold the solids in solution for very long so you need to stir it regularly otherwise you get very heavy going at the bottom of the pot.

Ha! I found this out after I thought it had gone ‘bad’ when it didn’t do the trick. Wife asked if I’d stirred it 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for the tip. Will be doing the ceiling in the en suite this weekend with a bit of luck. Will try to remember to stir both frequently and vigorously.

Thanks a lot, sounds like a bit of a horrible job so will wait until the spring/summer. It's a big improvement already, but just wish I used an expoxy specific sealer or something I don't know have to now remove.

Garage Heating. Last year we moved from oil to gas heating, the boiler being in the garage. I have discovered that the oil boiler provided some heat in the garage - enough to take the chill out of the air. The gas boiler provided no such heat and the temperature of the garage is the same as being outside. I don’t need the garage to be toasty warm but I need it slightly warmer than outside.

Suggestions for some form of heating. FYI I don’t believe a radiator would be a viable option. Something stand alone outside of the gas would be my preference and something that is not costly to run.

Thanks all.

Tube heater? A 6ft one should make a bit of an dent to the temperature and cost about a pound a day to run (200w).

Anyone used Tikkurila paint? The guy working in my local decorators merchants is raving about it.

Thanks. Not sure where I could put it. Garage is mostly shelves all round. Ceiling seems a bad place.

It’s good gear and you can get it colour matched too.

I've got some for our bathroom so will see how it goes on. We need a lot of paint as the whole house is being redecorated, if we like it I think we will end up using it throughout.
Colour match seems pretty accurate on the paint I got this morning

You can get it in F&B colours and it’s been great got the jobs I’ve used it on

That’s not exactly cheap to run!

No, true. We have a two foot one for keeping our guinea pigs warm and that's obviously quite a bit cheaper.

£1 does seem reasonable at first (so I started looking at tube heaters for my garage) but then realised it would add 50% to our electricity bill!

Any sort of electrical heating (short of a heatpump*) is going to have similar costs.

If it's at all possible to install an extra radiator it's going to be the only sensible option if you care about long term costs.

(* There are a few models of portable air conditioner that can work as a heatpump for heating. No idea how rubbish they are.)

I installed 3 tube heaters into the log cabin - hopefully they keep the damp at bay over winter (so far so good). It's not the cheapest but I couldn't think of a better solution. I think mine are running at about 60p per day (according to meter).

Thanks, good advice as always. I'll look into getting hold of a jigsaw

Today I finally did something about all the flooring gaps left by the fitter in my kitchen. It's being sanded early next week so it was now or never.

I got a forstner bit to cut a rebate in the boards with overlapping holes and then chiseled the edge and cut stripwood to fit. Really pleased with how it's turned out. One more mitred corner to do tomorrow. Still got to glue all of these ones in place too.

Thanks @nefarious for the tips.

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reet tidy there

Wahey - lovely job man! Good effort getting stuck in and fixing it.

That's really impressive. I'd be very happy with that if it was my work. Actually, I'd be over the moon.