Owning your own home

We had our loft conversion painted very quickly after the plasterer finished. It all settled down afterwards so now there are lots of minor cracks. So don't rush.

Yeah this.

Where the wall meets the ceiling, i bet there's a real word for that, is cracked.
And where someone mounted a curtain rail, it's gone all cracked.

Sound advice, thank you sir.

I always like to leave plaster for 3-6 months. Not always possible but it does take a long time for the crystalline structure to properly harden. A week is about the longest a customer will normally wait!

Sodo > Franco Manco

Il Baccio Express > everyone

You reckon Il Bacio is the best?

No way is Sodo better than Franco Manca.

On principle, I would choose local independent over ever expanding Westfield/Broadgate Circus dwellers.

On pizza, Franco every time.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Franco Manca were opening up in Stratford Westfield...

http://www.francomanca.co.uk/restaurants/westfield/

any lino brands to look out for that are actually lino, not vinyl called lino?

Forbo Nairn Marmoleum, used it in my kitchen

Forbo "Marmoleum" is the big one - http://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-gl/products/linoleum/cmlack
There's also Armstrong "Marmorette" but I've never come across it IRL. http://www.armstrong.com/flooring/products/linoleum

Rubber's another floor option I forgot. Not sure how sustainable it is as a complete product, although latex is harvested from trees (as is cork) so should be better than vinyl. I quite like the circular studded stuff in jolly colours, that may also remind you of school...

Still in the midst of trying to buy and sell a house. It's a tedious and occasionally stressful process.

Thanks chaps. @Dammit care to show off?

Excellent. The time it's taken me to prep the lounge walls is clearly about right then. Not sure if I exhibited my amateurish plastering yet. Hope the decorators say it's good enough for lining paper

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Don't want to come across as rude, but I wouldn't lining paper that.

Covered in dust right now:

It does look worse in the photo than reality but it's definitely not a great finish, however it's really not much different to the walls I didn't touch. I might have a stab at improving the finish this weekend

Do you live in a clunch cottage? If so it looks good, if not, then not so much.

It looks terrible. Sorry but that's awful.

Can anybody recommend a good end of tenancy cleaner?

What did you use as a smoothing float, a garden rake?

Truly awful.

Forbo is amazing we use it in commercial kitchens all the time.

I've got rubber Noraplan floor tiles in my kitchen - easy lay and cut with a Stanley knife.