Recent content by helenwpower

Hi All, Any tips for planing MDF? I have a planing power tool that a friend has lent me and I only need to shave off 5-10mm on a strip about 1m long but it feels like I'm not getting anywhere. I'm a weak and feeble girl but it shouldn't be this hard, surely?!

Hi All, I understand that i'm supposed to use two pieces of wallpaper to paper around a corner, not try and lay it "round" the corner as it were, but I am papering just the chimmney breast and the two coners are slightly rounded and I think it would look better with the paper going round...

Not sure of the exact brand but it's B&Q own white elmulsion (not value)

Hi, We recently had some plastering done to create a fireplace "alcove" on the chimney breast in our dining room. The plasterer created a "box" with plasterboard and then skimmed a small amount (max 5mm deep) of plaster over to make it flush to the wall. We left it about 10 days to dry...

Anyone?? I knwo this is a bit of a basic question but I don't want to get ripped off and I have no idea if it is a £30 or a £300 job (although I guess it is the former)

Hi, Roughly how much should my plumber charge me to change a leaking Thermostatic Radiator Valve?

thanks. i do really want to remove it (it's in the worse place, we're decorating so i can cover the hole plus we've had NTL for ages). but i think might just double check that is is the sky cable :wink: if you hear about an electrocution in manchester you know what...

Hi, Probably a very silly question but I thought it would be a good idea to check. I have an old sky cable coming out of the wall in my living room. It is the cable coming through from the old sky dish on the roof - the dish isn't connected and hasn't been for some time, plus it's not...

Well thanks for letting me know. I'm going to get the plumber out to insulate some exterior pipes for me so I'll ask him to sort it at the same time - how much, roughly, should I be paying him?

Hi - One of my radiators is leaking when turned on. The water appears to be coming from the underside of the knob on the side (the one that adjusts the temperature (i.e. it has numbers ranging from 1 - 5). Baring in mind that I am such a girl that I don't even know what this is called is it...

Good to know I'm not barking up the wrong tree. Right, now how to i get the floorboards up to do that?

Has anyone got any good tips on how to unstick painted shut windows? The fantastic people who used to own our house some how managed to paint shut every single window several time over and I don't want to attack them (the windows, not the vendors - although that would be tempting) until I...

Hi all, Forgive what is probably a very basic question - I'm learning the hard way: Just moved into a my first house - a lovely victorian terrace with original floors throughout. However, we've just discovered a whole section of floorboards (under where the previous owners had...