Recent content by Lucy6892

Hi We've been having a problem with water getting in in the window recess as you can see from the pictures. We have checked outside and nothing seems to be amiss with the pointing and we've had a roofer check out the roof tiles etc and they can't seem to see any broken ones etc. They've said...

Hi John, Thanks for your advice. I'll try taping and painting down the line of the worktop onto the green wall. Would this be a place to put a line of sealant to make it neater too? I'll look into the trim as you suggest. This might look nice painted the same green as the wall but I'm not sure...

Hi About a year ago my partner and I had some minimal decoration done to our kitchen, it is our first house and the kitchen was very old fashioned so we did minimal stuff, Work tops, new tiling etc. it's about all we could afford at the time but looking around now there's some things we should...

Thanks sparkwright, that's exactly what we were going to do! The advice on here has really helped, will let you know how we get on

Would you care to elaborate? Thanks

When I said 'sort it out', I meant next time we had an electrician around- but if that can be done easily now then great but I'm not sure I follow, So I will have two red wires in a block, the two black wires to neutral and live on the new fitting and all earths into earth. Where would you put...

Thanks for the replies, the light in the attic has its own switch on the light fitting but as its joined to the bedroom light both switches need to be on for the attic light to work. This was done before we moved in and is on the list of things to get sorted out at some point. At the moment all...

I should clarify that it's a single wire to a light fitting in the attic that is controlled by the same switch. Thanks

OK - thanks for your help so far everyone. We (I say we, I mean my partner) blocked them off with the terminal blocks and turned the power on so we do have lighting (wahoo) but trying to fit the new fitting is going to be somewhat more difficult not knowing where to put things now we don't know...

Hi My partner very daringly (!) just chose to remove all of the above wires from the shown fitting and didn't make a note of what went where. We are trying to put on a new chandelier light fitting but now would just settle for everything going back to where it should be so that we can give in...

Hi I recently had my ceiling skimmed and left it about two weeks to dry out. We then put on two mist coats and then two layers of paint. Unfortunately this was done in a hot and sunny room, whereby it was drying very quickly. Its either hot and sunny in there or too dark to paint! We are...

Hi I have recently had my bedroom replastered and have painted the walls. There are definite patches on the walls where I painted the paint samples and even though the walls have had two coats. I can't seem to get rid of the textural difference where the paint samples were. You can't see the...

Hi Still on my spare bedroom decoration and I had a number of cracks and holes to fill before painting. I used polyfilla on the holes and poly cell brush on liquid hairline crack filler for the cracks. As you can see from the pictures despite hours of sanding a bump through the paint...