Recent content by Rabatts

From experience, I find it's best to know what you want doing before you call in the trades, there are some rouges out there if you don't have any good contacts, which we don't on this one. Plus we want to do all the donkey work ourselves, 'cos money's tight.

It's the whole outside of the house that's rendered. The house is traditionally brick built, solid walls and then rendered over and painted. No sign of any damp. Our original plan was to remove all the render and have it done from scratch, but it's really stuck solid, so we just want to coat...

It's an external wall, my concern is that if we follow Dad's advice it will just fall off sooner or later.

We're renovating a 1930's rendered art deco style house and want to achieve a smooth finish. It's been painted with a thick textured paint that scrapes off easily, but underneath is a mess, patches of old paint that won't come off, lots of loose render, but most of it is still stuck really...

I have two problems with dimming halogen which confuse me more the more I read. Problem 1 – Dimming 9 x GU10 bulbs I have 9 x 50w GU10 halogen spotlights in the kitchen which I want to dim (lamps are dimmable), I assumed I would need a 450w dimmer but from what I have read I need a higher...

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I have two problems with dimming halogen which confuse me more the more I read. Problem 1 – Dimming 9 x GU10 bulbs I have 9 x 50w GU10 halogen spotlights in the kitchen which I want to dim (lamps are dimmable), I assumed I would need a 450w dimmer but from what I have read I need a higher...

It's taken nearly a year but I have finished the whole ground floor and it's only cost about £50 for a good filler knife, Homestrip and Easifill, very messy though. Can fully recommend Dulux Trade, it's so nice to use and well worth the extra cash.

Only got one plasterer quote, but I have a couple of friends who have had rooms done and it's been around 100-200 per room, so it sounds about right. The emulsion removing experiment has been a success: The best results were with Homestrip - it's a non-solvent based stripper I spotted in...

Thanks for the replies. Can't afford a plasterer - the problem is over the whole house, we were quoted £1k to skim the ground floor. Ooops…I have used the heat gun for a few hours this week and it worked well, but I'll try Ecover, paint stripper and wet & dry now I'm aware of the danger...

Seen one I really like in MFI (Shrieber Aurora) but it's £4,300 just for the units (no worktops or appliances). Looking for Walnut or light blue gloss. Really like curved units.

Background Have stripped wall paper, walls are in quite good condition, but patches of emulsion underneath have lifted leaving bear patches. It’s a nice house, full of character in an ideal location, so we plan to stay here forever. I know lining paper would be easier, but I don’t like...

After wall paper removal from the whole ground floor I am left with walls that are in quite good condition – it looks like they had a few good coats of emulsion before they were ever papered so there is very little damage to the plaster, but there are quite a lot of patches where the emulsion...