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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...

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...

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...