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Could you tell me a bit more about the preparation?

the top half of our country house has a dilapidated painted roughcast render over brick. I am wondering whether it would be possible to smarten it up by applying a new smoother render over the top of the old roughcast. The existing roughcast seems to be pretty well attached to the underlying...

Thanks for the useful advice. Been cleaning panes of glass today. Dry weather at last! :)

No modern miracle then! :( I f you bed the glass onto silicone would you run a bead of silicone down on the outside?

thanks. John. I like putty but it is my experience that in too short a time it dries out and cracks, letting the rain through, and wetting the timber. It is impossible to reach to the top of the greenhouse (being 10' from the eaves to the ridge). If it needs repairing again the whole row has...

We are in the process of repairing an old wooden market garden size greenhouse, 80'x15'. We need to replace some of the rotten rafters and reglaze large areas using the glass that is already there. Some of the existing glass has been fixed in place using silicone, but this detaches from the...

Thanks for that info, I will have one last go at it (abt the 8th time I think!) Any particular brand better/worse than the rest?

Have tried Crown and Dulux. Have been wondering about using a trade paint. A trade paint must be a different concoction then, and would it go over the existing bog-standard Dulux?

I have been redecorating hall stairs and landing with a matt emulsion paint. This paint drives me crazy, it is nothig like the paint of 15 years ago, which is on the walls of a cupboard in the hall and which I can wash (nay scrub) without it coming off. The modern paint comes off with a mere...