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We've recently had our walls plastered including new metal corners trims. we're now painting, and whilst the walls have covered fine, the metal edge of the corner bead is still visible - the paint just isn't adhering to it. Seems to have affected the white walls much more than the coloured ones...

Hi All, We've recently had a bunch of building work done including our internal walls plastering (some new walls, some skimming over existing walls. All the external corners have metal corner bead on, and whilst the 2 flat sides of the trim are covered in plaster, the very corner still shows the...

Looking for opinions on how to best solve my loft quandry! Main requirement: lay boarding to 3m x 1.5m section of centre of loft to improve storage. Subsidiary Requirement: increase insulation - currently only 70mm of glass fibre (probably original - 1981 built house) between joists...

Hey guys. I have a Bosch Rotak 34R electric rotary mower, only a couple of years old and not used that much. Last weekend whilst attempting to cut the grass I noticed the motor sounded higher pitched than normal (slight whine) and then I noticed quite a pungent burning smell. Opened it all...

Hey guys, hoping someone can help. I have a small leak from my rad, and I think it may be where the pipe connects to the rad itself, see the discolouration in the attached pic. there’s only a very slight amount of water leakage, and it feels most wet underneath this connection. How...

Hey guys, I've read that you shouldn't board directly onto the joists with insulation inbetween them because of condensation. I've also read that you should use the loft legs (or similar) to provide a gap, which you can then fill with more insulation up to the recommended minimum of 270mm. If...

Hey guys. Apologies for the long post but wanted to be thorough, plus I am somewhat verbose at the best of times! Hoping someone can help me. Looking to board and potentially insulate my loft, but I have a bunch of questions and concerns! I'm a competent-ish DIYer, but have a tendency to...

Hi guys, hoping someone can help. I'm hiding some speaker wire behind my skirting boards for my surround sound, and want to conceal the run up to my speakers (roughly 1m from floor to speaker). House is dry-lined, so figure so figured I'd make a hole at speaker height, and another at skirting...

Afternoon all, Cracking on with changing over the rest of my sockets (all done no problems) and switches after my issues here: //www.diynot.com/forums/electrics/metal-pattress-in-drylined-wall.400764/ Unfortunately, I've run into a problem with my lounge light switch. It's 2 gang...

Evening all! Hoping someone can help me. Whilst decorating upstairs a while back, I changed over our switches and sockets for more decorative ones. This included converting a couple of single sockets to doubles. All of the sockets I changed had plastic dryline boxes in the plasterboard...

Hi all. Hoping someone can help. I've just changed our 3 manky old ceiling rose/pendants upstairs, with new mk replacements. No issues at all - 3 grey cables in with live/neutral/earth. Fine. Whilst I was in the mood, I'd thought I'd replacement the ancient heavy brass ceiling lamp with a...