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Im after any recommendations for one that does nice neat pipe installs and fits fancy rads without scratching the finish.
SE area.

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I will need some new rads and pipework fitted, will need new pipe run starting from cut pipes in one room and then then out and return with 5 rads but done in 2 stages.
Pipework with tails at correct spacing for rads, then once I have boarded over the pipes, rads and valves fitted, system filled and balanced.
Silly question but do heating engineers get their hands dirty or do they just fit Hive/Nest/Tado for an easy life these days?

i guess it depends on where in the insulation that pipe is.
Im going to fit 67mm kingspan k118 and as the boards are not quite tall enough for the room I’m leaving a space for the pipe runs with a thinner k118 board at the back leaving enough room for the pipe run, cutting back the 12mm PB on the thicker board leaving PIR exposed so i can bond a 9mm sheet to that and a 2x1 nailed to the floor to cover the pipes and then a skirting board over that.

New aluminium windows were 25k and nobody would take that job on as the reveal would need to be cut back and 6 stories of scaffolding needed plus no sill projection allowed by Dulwich estates even if they gave us permission to change them.
So it’s internal insulation and secondary glazing.
New sills (stools if being pedantic) are not that expensive as we will be using offcuts from a granite dealer.

Thanks. Will see how I get on next week with the small one once I get radiators out of the way to get under the front.

Thanks, will add that to todays order, bolster is more bang bang and I want gentle persuasion.
@TW would love to but we are adding 60mm of insulated plasterboard so it’s not deep enough, will be fitting some kind of granite in its place.
Shame to lose it as its’s made of blue/red chips with sparkles which I presume is glass.

I need a pry bar but not a wrecking bar to remove this terrazzo window stool which is in 5 pieces and 4.5m long.
The smaller ones seem to be for nails or ‘trim’ and look a bit lightweight, is there one for this job? Possibly with some kind of mortar scraper? Managed to carefully lift the first one with a bit of hammer persuasion as don’t want to damage the window, used a screwdriver to lift it this far but H&S do not approve the inappropriate use of tools.

have 3 floors to sand and oil, one is stripwood iroko, the other 2 are bedrooms with pine which was carpeted.
plan is to stain a darker/redder colour to go some way towards matching the iroko floor.
The pine is tongue and groove nailed to joists with narrow gaps of about 2-4mm, not sure what to fill them with? if i use sanding dust and resin it will likely be too light, seem to be various products out there ready mixed and coloured but no idea if they are any good?
having typed this out i may have answered my own question and could use the iroko dust to make it darker but would use an off the shelf product if they are any good?

Aruba or Windsor are on the list but Athens from bathroom mountain are a fair chunk cheaper (£1500 v £2200) and seem to be the same as what other big rad merchants sell but they just add 1 or 2mm to the sizing and use a slightly different PDF drawing, I assume they are all from the same factory

In reply to my own question above the answer is prime with SBR and use a cement based mortar. (as informed by friend/ex builder)
Pics of the offending holes, Crittall windows are fine under all the layers of paint though, don’t think you could say the same for UPVC after 70 years ..

we are looking at rads at the moment and not got to the bathroom ones yet but noticed you can get an ordinary tall column rad and have matching towel rails and robe hooks fitted, it was on bestheating.com and the rad was milano aruba.
they come in lots of colours including some mettalics.

Will post pics tomorrow but i have window reveals that have blown plaster in a few places round the window frames (steel crittall) hacked out the soft stuff and the rest of the plaster looks and feels fine and the masonry isn't crumbling.
Think the problem was made worse by a couple of bodges, one where the lining paper/paint has obviously lifted and bubbled so it has been badly cut back and then filler and painted over, on scraping off the remaining paper and filler i got to the brown fluffy paper that's hard to strip and some black mould, the paper obviously held on to moisture which didn't help.
Also the top light has been badly siliconed as a remedy to draft proofing but has only made the problem worse, i could see grey fluff around it which suggests dirt from outside getting in between the gap along with water blowing in (we found a small puddle on windowsill after the wind/rain) stripping the paint off and the silicone has already made the window shut a lot better.
Main point is what to fill those gaps with? seems a bit too deep to just fill with easyfill or plaster. Cement?

I'm going to leave them to dry out if they can as the exterior of the windows are being done in a couple of months (6th floor so nothing i can do myself outside) and the reveal will be skimmed in the coming weeks.

Think there's going to be a few more questions for this thread...

the username swap explains why i thought you had left..

Roach Matthews.
the Matthews used to be a member here and rides bikes FWIW

https://www.roachmatthews.com/

speak to their broker but just ask for what rates/fees with your deposit and LTV they can do.
whatever they come back with tell them 'no my broker has a better deal thanks'

Is there a punch that is rectangular not round to set brad steel nails below floorboard level?
everything seems to round/centre punch but you would think that all those rectangular nail heads in last century floorboards would have meant a tool for that job was available?

Somewhere within a 5k radius of Pitti is a gentleman sat having his espresso in the local square of his native Florence neighbourhood who nonchalantly epitomises sprezzatura, while the 'trying to hard' peacocks try and fail to do the same for the camera's and get 'dandyism' due to their efforts.

Just when you think it cannot get any worse, it does!?
We have just half an hour ago received the redemption statement/stock transfer deed for the purchase.
i'm sat in half empty flat in N4and partner is in my place SE19
turns out the transfer needs to be printed and countersigned before tomorrow morning FFS. we asked for the these as soon as we exchanged and then chased again on Tuesday and today, partner is currently in an uber heading to friend with printer, you would think due to to the lack of time they would have sent these pronto?.
any competent solicitor would....

oh and the formatting of the PDF's was so screwed that the redemption statement made no sense and there was no explanation of why there was an early repayment fee listed (we are porting)

Oh and I almost forgot they have spelt the name wrong on the stock transfer deed, nothing surprises me anymore, i fully expect to not complete tomorrow and will probably just shrug my shoulders.

luckily the removals have storage and buyer is moving a day later on friday.
we seriously think they (solicitor) is doing this on purpose.

we were going to go with them but a tiny bit more and they wouldn't go into loft (it has pull down steps with a long hatch so easy access)
was not 1.5k though! everything must have gone up as quotes were coming in 2.4-2.7k for the full monty.

Thanks, think i have most bases covered but will buy an SDS as i need to do masonry fixings through 60mm insulation but that's a handy thing to have.
are you the chap who bought on the kingswood and had issues with Dulwich?

We are about to pay more than we though (2.4k not 1.6k we expected) with Grays in Hackney as i think somebody on here recommended them. other quotes were more or a little bit less but those quotes were not offering the same levels of service.

Every question has been replied with ‘not a problem’ ‘don’t worry we can do that for you’ and the reviews online all say how good the service has been.

this is for a full pack and move of a 1bed flat with not loads of furniture but a loft full of possessions that will half fill a garage plus taking as few things apart. no waiting charge if there is a delay with keys as some give you the option of insuring against this.
full pack on 1 day, move the next. N4 to SE19 4 men and 2 vans as the big one is on a long distance job.

I had a new one of those from the Back2 shop with a mesh base, great chair and was comfy when i tried it in the showroom but my ass is so skinny that my sit bones were pushing the mesh down in 2 spots and touching the bar below as i sit far back and upright, a pie eater with padding would be fine as their weight would be distributed across a greater area of the mesh.
Ended up with an Orangebox DO which is good VFM and lots of adjustment.

Love the arabic numeral/subdial one.
like the slim bezel gold too but the 50's numeral that cut into 6 reminds me of my Omega that got stolen and not replaced, typeface/date window fetishists probably get triggered but i like it.

My IWC cuts the corner off the 11 and 10 but i just don't care.

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