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The emulsion paint had brush marks so these would show through any subsequent coats. It also had a couple of scratches and chips and these would need to be 'feather edged' when sanding with the possibility of rubbing through to the metal. I think it would take a lot more time and effort to sand...

I was faced with this problem today - Ten years ago my wife (in one of her painting furies) painted a radiator in the spare room with emulsion and I wanted to remove this but not the original radiator finish. I did a search on here and found a couple of posts but none gave a solution which...

That's the one ! Many thanks Gasguru. D.

Hello again, A few months back I fitted a new close coupled toilet. Recently the inlet valve started to 'howl' just before shut off and today ceased shutting off completely accompanied by a continual low howl. I stripped down the valve to give the diaphragm and all the rubber seals a good...

Thanks for the reply gcol. I reckon it looks best with the ledge set out symmetrically so will go with that. U.

Hi, I am tiling a bathroom and this has a small window with a window ledge 80cm(W) x 25cm(D). I am using 25cm x 20 plain white tiles. I set the spacing of the wall tiles on the wall behind the bath but this has resulted in the spacing below the window to be offset in relation to the...

The instructions are a somewhat 'arty' sketch showing the relative positions of the components and a couple of sentences telling how to assemble. The only reference to the steel angle pieces is that they should be screwed to the base - no dimensions are given.

Hi, I'm about to fit a new plastic bath (standard size/shape) but the instructions for fitting the legs are a bit vague regarding the placing of these. Each leg set consists of threaded rods + adjusting nut(s) that locate into a piece of steel angle which has to be attached to the...

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

Just about to start tiling at the back of the work surfaces in the kitchen. I have recently re-wired (and re-plastered) all the power sockets from surface mount to flush mounted. What is best practice - to tile up to the sockets and grout around or remove the socket plates and tile to...

I did say unlikely - should have put very,very .... :-) Thanks for your patience on this. Your suggestion to use steel boxes with rear protection sounds sensible.

Ban, I had thought of blanking the holes in the old surface mount boxes and using these ( with long screws ) as rear covers after cutting a suitably sized hole in the wood for the rear connections of the socket plate. However, this would still leave an unprotected surround of the wood wall...

Ban, I suppose the question should have been - is there a safe way of doing this, a box with a completely sealed back. Would a plaster board style box match that description ? Any other way of doing the job?

The wall in question is in the kitchen, is of 3/4" thick boards and is the 'under stairs' (in a very old house). The other side of the wall fronts onto the stairway down to the cellar (i.e. no inner skin). At the moment the sockets are surface mounted but I want to flush mount them. What would...

Thanks for the replies. The house is about 200 yrs old and appears to be built onto bedrock so I don't think it is settlement. The walls are constructed from slate stone (scrap from the local quarry - Wales) and are virtually 'dry walled' in that there is very little lime motor between the...

I will soon be tiling the bathroom and would like some advice as to how to tackle an inside vertical corner, one side of which is plasterboard, the other plastered stone. Up till now the walls have been 'papered' using Vinyl and after a year or so wrinkles develop in the extreme corner due, I...

Thanks Merv. I went ahead with the handsaw anyway ! Did a trial run on the scrap from the sink cut-out then, as I only needed to cut to length, went for it. The cuts were square on plan view ( followed the line) but not being a super sawer, I had let the saw lean a little. As they were...

Can anyone help please. Whilst searching to find the best way to cut worktops, I came accross the above question and reply to a similar question. Unfortunately, I could not find the "loads of advice" so can anyone help as to the best way to cut a plastic coated chipboard top to length and...

We have a Rayburn stove fitted into a small 'ingle nook' fireplace. The front of the Rayburn extends (overhangs - the base is 6" above floor level) into the room by 4". The gap between the stove base and the floor was filled with a (non- loadbearing) plinth of cement. I am laying a woodchip...

Antwerpman,