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Hello, near the bath we've got a strip without tiles that I would like to fill to make it level with the tiled floor. The bath panel is then going to go down to that strip area of filled floor. Some of that filled strip will the be exposed, maybe 12mm wide or so. Won't look beautiful but good...

Hi, Due to flooding our engineered wood floor has become wet. Now that it's dried out again it's got some wider gaps in some places. At the largest spots up to about 5mm wide. What filler do I best fill this with? The flooring is varnished and surface looks good, so it should not be something...

Hi there, I have two windows where the top of the window reveal (where the lintel is) has cracked quite a bit. I assume that it's cracking because of settlement/schrinkage since the house was new built about 7 years ago. How is this best repaired? Sand down the plaster? How do I fill the crack...

Hello, We've got a concealed cistern (Geberit 109.720.00.1) which leaks water from the point at which the flush pipe connects to it. There is a seal, which may need to be replaced. As per these installation instructions...

We've got a skylight in our communal hallway. Because of condensation during the colder season, mould has built up around the skylight. See image. The housing association will re-paint (and allegedly properly treat the mould beforehand). I've asked them about future mould prevention, but...

Hello, I need to colose a couple of hole in plasterboard and it seems as if this might help me: http://www.powertoolsdirect.com/oakey-artex-plasterboard-repair-patches-5 All websites that sells these have the same description. Does anyone have experience with these? I.e. I'd like to...

We need to get a bathroom wall (plasterboard) re-painted, behind which there was a leak a year ago or so. The wall is now discoloured. We think that all is dry now and would want to have it re-painted with a mould-resistant white bathroom paint. Is there any need to treat the wall somehow...

I would like to remove these 2 standard radiators: These are located on two opposite sites of the room. I'd like to remove one of them completely, and to replace the other one with a larger, but low height radiator. For the new radiator I have up to about 4.7 metres space: I...

Hello, I've removed a skirting board, adjacent to a door frame. It turns out that the guys who've put on the plasterboard and then the skirting broke the plasterboard in the corner when they've nailed the skirting on, now there's a hole which I want to fill, and some of the render above the...

Hi everyone, I'm going to build a few shelves out of reclaimed, planed floorboards. The shelvoes need to end up white, but we're not looking for the perfect finish. What would you recommend to use, enabling us to make the boards white with one or two coats, before putting the shelved...

I'm not that experienced (although generally fit in DIY things), and I'm about to embark on putting together a simple built-in wardrobe. In our case this means blocking off the end of the room (wall-to-wall) with 2 sliding doors and erecting shelving behind that (ca. 50 - 55 cm deep). I'm...