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Sounds like a solid plan. I somehow have to stop mini_com seeing the one I'm building until the next day. Which seeing the first thing we do is go into the back patio on the bike when I bring her home from the childminder, is going to be tricky. I'll either have to cover it with a tarp and brush the million "why?" questions. Or drop her in the front door to ms_com while I take the bike round the back. Again, more "why?"

just tell her the truth...

there's a wasps nest you need to remove and it's not safe ;)

I'd like her to go into the garden in future without shitting herself every time...

ok, you've put down some weed killer and it needs 24hrs before you can rinse it off.

"why?"

I will just be settling and levelling four of these to go under the feet.

This is a really slick idea. Hats off.

For ours I dug, levelled with sand, Ecobases + gravel under each foot.

All the footings have remained dry. I worried about the wind as a savages gust rips up through our garden and side of the house. Especially in late summer. However, it's pretty protected and has stayed put.

Cheers, I was just going to use regular pavers, then thought "round slabs must exist", then found these at B&Q. Poured/moulded concrete with a colour/dye. About 2"-3" thick. >£40 whereas I could have got the pavers for free, but this will add to the fairy tale/ Baba Yaga House type set up that ms_com has her eye on.

I did write the method I use for posh jobs (and large areas) using a ¾window brush a 4" jumbo mini short microfiber roller and a good 2"brush(£15) but it's just as much faf in words as in practice (and one brush can do it). I think f&b estate egg is fab it has the ability to be applied quite thick and that's how it will self level to a good finish and sands well in-between coats (it's very possible to get it in one), the general rule is - get it on, lay it off ,and leave it, the same with all paint, and in a specific order mostly on paneled doors, like all paint. This does actually make me want to get some out of my own pocket to try, as it's never been requested, the only alternative I can think of would be the oil base dead flat little green*, I don't know of anyone would match colour in dead flat finish (johnston's had one in oil white only)

.* I've done kitchen units in little green dead flat with walls in f&b modern emulsion, I still reference it , thought it was cleaver and thoughtful

We've used paint and paper library too but I think that is actually little greene paint

Thanks very much for this - I'm interested in their 'new' dead flat particularly as they claim it's scuff-resistant and scrubbable which, in my limited f&b experience, hasn't been the case with other paints of theirs.

Also that it can be applied to all sorts of surfaces. 'client' has requested ceilings/radiators/woodwork while I ground my teeth down into a powder that can likely be mixed into the next niche farrow and ball recipe.

In any event would need to sort out a corner in an alcove that's currently flaking (probably ventilation issue rather than anything leaking through), so I have a bit of time until I commit.

Sounds like it's the competition of Benjamin Moore scruff-x from whom ever bought f&b recently

Someone's got to try it

don't ever buy your finishing plaster from B&Q.
few weeks ago we did a bulk delivery order of plasterboard/adhesive/filler and added 3 bags of plaster to avoid paying the delivery charge and yesterday when the plasterer went to use them they are a month out of date but he had already used one and a window reveal in full sun is cracking as its going off so quick.
now i have to add 2 bags to my waste collection at end of job (££)
not checked the exact date of delivery/OOD but they are probably within a few days.
Cant be arsed to find out how shite their customer services are.

Architects' acrilic eggshell is a delight to use

I think you can,and I think you can start them with a refund of all costs

now i have to add 2 bags to my waste collection at end of job (££)

Croydon tip has a specific bit for plaster etc. I took an old bag of multifinish there recently. Opening that and tipping it in was like the ashes scattering scene in The Big Lebowski.

will give it a go next week.
@stevo_com not sure i could manage Anerley hill with 50k of dust on the front of the brompton.

What is the accepted method of finishing a wall over heating pipes?

As you can see in this image the skirting would not covet the red boxed section. So how should this be filled in or covered over?

Cheers.

Edit: just seen this "short" (yuck) on YT and it makes expanding foam seem like a great idea for a host of reasons - insulation, ease, getting a flush finish.

https://youtu.be/gxK-YyrRulE

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Aye, but it'll be downhill with the load ;)

Thanks for the laugh, I needed that! Looks like whoever plumbed that in has left you with a problem.

Are those pipes flush with the wall? If so I really don't have any good ideas for you.

I think the plumber who is showing expanding foam in a shower knows that the tiles will cover that reasonably well. It would not be good with mosaics for example. I would definitely not work with a plumber who did that but I'm old and grumpy.

Push a chest of drawers against the wall?

not around pipes - but we had a gap between skirting and newly plastered walls (plasterers assumed we’d have taller skirting than we ended up going with…) - anyway, expanding foam and then toupret filler has done a more than adequate job even with skills as questionable as my own.

Personally id get larger skirting for this room.

Are those pipes flush with the wall?

No they are set back. But not by loads.

Push a chest of drawers against the wall?

TBF there's a sofa covering almost all of it.

expanding foam and then toupret filler has done a more than adequate job

Where my thinking was going and what I wanted to hear

Personally id get larger skirting for this room

I'd like to keep as much of this and match the OG skirting, but I'm not hopeful. Will see what the floor guys say.