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Help please My daughter wants me to fit in two clothes rails ( no shelves) in a small walk in wardrobe 234cm height (i.e. Floor to ceiling) 52cm deep and 140cm wide. My problem is that the two sides are plasterboard and the back and ceiling are plasterboard/brick/concrete. My daughter wants two...

Help please, About to lay laminate flooring in my daughters new flat. Have done laminate flooring a few times but am experiencing a new problem. Her flat (concrete floor) is generously proportioned - lounge is 6.00 m x 5.00m and leads to an entrance hallway that means I would have a...

Just completed tiling job now want to put caulk on the internal tile-tile corners and where tiles meet door frames and pvc windows. Not sure what TYPE or TYPES of caulk to use. (i) I think silicon based caulk is best for pvc windows to tile is that correct? (ii) What about the tile-tile...

Hi Currently preparing the walls of a small toilet for tiling and hit a major problem. I previously covered the walls with the dreaded RIPPLE EFFECT paint MANY years ago. (The type that looks like artex and you finish with a roller) . Stupid of me I know!! but the walls were prone to cracking...

Thanks for the advice Macfudd. Our gas pipe is clearly metallic so that shouldn't be a problem then should it? One question though... When you said trace where it branches from the main pipe.. This would be upstairs wouldn't it (since the pipe drops vertically thru the ceiling). Did you mean...

Planning to install IKEA kitchen with builder friend. Have noticed that on the wall behind the proposed position for the built in double oven is a vertical gas pipe that would run vertically down behind the oven. It then has a right hand turn for about 8 inches at which point the gas is clearly...

Redecorating bathroom ceiling after my children steamed off a section above the shower (2 years after expensive refit!) One third of the ceiling paint fell off or just came off easily with scraper revealing bare plasterboard ( The painter clearly did not use a mist coat- learned that from DIYnot...

Hi Got a big problem with matt white paint bubbling, then flaking off the plasterboard ceiling above the shower cubicle after two years of abuse by our children (Long showers with window closed!) Where it has flaked off it has revealed the smooth brown plaster beneath it. SEE PICTURE Unsure...