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Hi, I'm in the process of grouting the bathroom floor tiles and am wondering if I also need to seal the grout after it's dried. The tiles are fairly pale and the grout looks to be drying a darkish sandstone colour although I won't know if it stains easily until it does :roll: if you know what...

Hi, I've got a front door in need of insulation but the gap varies from 1mm (perhaps even less) to a scary 8mm. It covers all the numbers in between as well. Rather than buy two different thicknesses of insulation, can some recommend one that will expand from 1mm to 8mm? I've had a look...

Hi, my other half has painted our stairs (very old carpet was previous covering) and before doing so, applied caulk/filler to any gaps at the base of each step. But as soon as we've used the stairs, the gaps between each step has opened up. Does anyone know of any way around this (other than...

We've taken some old, cheap coving down from a room and are going to put some nicer stuff up, but a lot of adhesive is left from the old coving. It's kind of pale brown or beige in colour, and has been applied over artex. My question is, how is it best to get this off? I had a go with a...

Hi, I'm hoping to have a fuel-burning stove fitted into an old fireplace and am also going to have a hearth laid. I've got three large blue/black limestone slabs that will be cut to size and fitted but they are a bit marked, despite me washing them off with warm water a few times. I'm not...

Hi, this is my first post on the forum so please be gentle! :roll: I have a pine wardrobe I'd like to colour with diluted paint, just to give it a little colour but still allow the grain of the wood to be visible. Trouble is, it has a lot of knots in it and I've been told I need to use...