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We had a bad roof (well chimney pointing) leak which stained a lime plastered wall in our old farm cottage. We don't want to put anything oil based on it but emulsion's not doing anything to cover it up. Any ideas other than replastering?!

It's a Worcester Bosch Heatslave which has a tank of ready heated water so no, we get a good flow of hot water from it.

Thanks. Boiler does very well at the moment so I don't want to jeopardise that with rubbish taps!

Hi, we're getting a new bathroom and last time we did this, ended getting the wrong (?) taps. Fair enough in our last house it was a low pressure system (tank in ground floor flat) but we put quarter turn taps on the bath and it took about an hour to fill up (wasn't too bad before we changed...

Hi, we had exterior french windows fitted a couple of years ago, with one trickle vent on the right hand door. When the (very unhelpful) building control officer came round a while ago he said we needed another fitted but didn't say why. When I spoke to him a few days ago he said it's the area...

We're wanting to clad the upstairs of our cottage with tongue and groove but the only wood we've been able to find is the narrow thin stuff from places like B&Q and Jewsons. There's already some approx. 6 inch cladding in the cottage with a nice bead down one edge - can anyone suggest where we...

Thanks to both of you, I will leave the white spirit attempt till The Husband comes home so if it goes wrong he can't blame me! :)

We've just had a new kitchen fitted with iroco hardwood work surfaces. We left it a bit late to put the first three coats of Danish oil on before the surface was fitted and I guess the oil wasn't quite dry because there's dust stuck to most of it. I thought we could just wire wool/ fine...