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How do i seal in black mould on wooden door and skirting boards? The wood has a yellow gloss base-paint/undercoat, from i guessing twenty years ago looking at the paint tin[ i inherited the house]. on top of that is 3yo matt white paint. The black mould is under the white paintwork, but not...

Hello, I want to stop suspected rain water entering through the exterior wall of my house, and causing damp in a downstairs room. The house is an edwardian house [1920s build, single brick wall, lime plaster. outside rendering looks about 1970s.] --- The room is downstairs with one exterior...

hi, thanks for replying. yes i am planning on removing the wall switch. ive editted the original post to clarify this. thats excellent, thanks. i had been worrying that the wall switch had been secretly wired wrongly for years, and i have avoided a mishap by luck.

The current bathroom light wall switch is outside the bathroom. I wanted to install a Crabtree pull cord light switch inside the bathroom. [to replace the wall switch. edit at 09:33] However when i was noting down the wiring of the lighting circuitry. I noticed that the current light switch...

Hello does my upstairs bathroom toilet copper overflow pipe need to be earthed? the cistern is 1970/80s plastic. my toilet overflow pipe, and the toilet inlet pipe are both copper. as seen in the photo, an earth cable is attached from the overflow pipe to the inlet pipe. [not in the photo] and...

misterhelpful thanks again, i did a test on the sandstone with a rotary-sanding drill bit on my drill. the test worked fine, the paint came off easy. the exposed sandstone underneath appeared. to colour-match the the exposed and weathered sandstone, i then rubbed dirt on part of the exposed...

misterhelpful, thanks so much for the fulsome reply and for the options :)

i never thought of that option, thanks. i will research them

does anyone know this stone is too? im in south wales

Hello Can I put two 6x2 joists, in joist hangers that are literally side by side. To support a bearer joist [7cm vertical x 20cm horizontal], that is under my hallway floor? Or would two joist hangers that close together stress the walls/ wall holes too much? The joist hangers would be fixed...

I did not find much in the search results about whether a bitumen wall can be tiled. In my bathroom, I waterproofed an ordinary new-plasterboard wall with this dampproof liquid, "Bostik-Flexible-Liquid-Damp-Proof-Membrane-2". On it im planning to use "Mapei Floor & Wall Tile Adhesive Grey 20kg"...

hello to remove the white paint from the stone only[but not the brickwork], can i use caustic soda, or other chemicals on this external wall? and what type of stone is it? as im concerned about the alkaline or acid eating excessively into the mortar or stonework the house is a 1920s terraced...

thanks vinn for the reply. i put in the fireplace two 25mm thermal insulation boards [shown in the photos], and will cover with plywood. will that be adequate ventilation, while also stopping most of the heat loss through the chimney? i havent looked at the other fireplace yet. i had wanted...

i removed plywood covering a first floor fireplace as the plywood board was bowing out at the bottom. i found about 5 stone of soot/dust [no bricks] in the fireplace. i removed the soot and there were a couple of holes in the back of the fire place. i coverd the fireplace with insulation board...

thanks folks for your help. glad to know i was being over cautious. i will just arrange for an electrician to change the consumer unit and install a bath light in may 2016. regarding the arcing post, i read it a month or two ago, so cant find it. the shower cable is approx 1cm wide. this is...