Home DIY

Wouldn't the speakers sound better closer to the corners?

Probably but they sound just fine where they are and look much better than in the corners...

STOPCOCKS.

I'm helping a friend move into a new place (ground floor flat). The sellers turned off the stopcock, electricity and gas when they moved out.

When turning the stopcock back on absolutely nothing is happening. Taps still dry etc. As far as I'm aware there's no second stop valve outside as it's a small block of flats.

Before getting a plumber involved - are we missing something incredibly obvious?

ftfy

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Sounds like you're missing another stopcock.

If there are isolators for each tap they may have, for some weird reason, turned off all of them as well.

There will be a Thames Water stopcock somewhere in the street as well, but if it's a shared supply from the road you can assume that it's switched on. However my last flat was a block but we each had our own thames water stopcock (and meter) in the pavement outside.

Ha, good point actually!

Have you considered asking the sellers how to turn on?

Yeah, the sellers left a little note saying "water turned off - stopcock outside bathroom" which didn't mention the isolators or anything (or the presence of a further stopcock/valve).

There is indeed a stopcock outside the bathroom so you'd assume that would be it?

Don't really know why they bothered, the house was only vacant for about 20 minutes!

Yeah, that's what I'd do. He doesn't have a direct contact though and feels a bit funny about going via solicitors to ask about turning on a tap.

Those are nice, but you knew I'd say that. <3 Plywood.

has anyone got any recs for a plumber in east london (Dalston area) that might come and have a look at a leak that's seems to have started in our kitchen?

@sacredhart - i feel might be the chap to ask?

Recommendations for a window fitter in north London?

I done a pinterest

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Feathering in Osmo- any tips?

TRV wasn't capped by decorators. Leaked and warped the boards.

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Orange carpet would look great in that room. Fuck all this osmo pain.

I use these guys, dead nice, and well priced...
http://jrmastersolutions.co.uk

I take it you paid in kind?

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Ha, I did actually help him with his site, but there is only so much I could do... cleaned up his home page and he didn't charge extra for fitting spotlights that I had forgot to mention I wanted doing! Decent guy.

which type of osmo is that? I sanded and treated the whole of the flooring in my flat... tried alot of the shades too. The conclusion was that its very hard to make dark/orange boards lighter with osmo, you kind of need to work with the shade you have. The heavily pigmented ones are a bastard to apply, and show up all the imperfections in the boards/your technique!

We used the wood wax oil - poly x raw (i think). This is clear but with light white pigmenting to lift the shade and ensure it doesn't darken/ reorangify the boards again. I reckon if you want almost pure white then it might work better just to go with a hard wearing floor paint.

have you sanded the floor in prep?

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The floor already has osmo down, but the decorators sanded down some boards they damaged and now I somehow need to stain the sanded part without creating horrible marks where the new meets the old.

This is one coat of the 'Honey' polyx hardwax oil and two coats of clear gloss.

ah. Yeah, tough gig!!! Its hard enough to keep it even when all fresh!

Rad to the power of dope. Wanna build us a kitchen, @dbr?

Rad to the power of dope. Wanna build us a kitchen, @dbr?

Yeah @Timmy2wheels - how about something like this...?

is aesop complimentary?