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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Just about to lay laminate flooring in a kitchen the main area of which is 11ft x11ft. There will be cupboard units along two sides of this and a single unit (u/sink) plus cooker and fridge on another. What are your opinions as to whether the laminate should be laid as a complete floor with...

I recently saw a reference to 'down cutting' jigsaw blades ( blades with the teeth pointing down ) and thought that this would be a useful tool for cutting laminate floor boards. Has anyone used these for this purpose and if so are they readily available and from where. Any tips for...

Need your advice. I had to disconnect the pipework to the hot water cylinder coil in order to move the cylinder to sort out a weeping joint. On re-assembly, there is a slight leak at the cylinder flange (top coil fitting). I used grips to hold the fitting on the cyl. when undoing and...

Not a 'how to' question but one which intrigues me. Is there any convention which dictates whether the hot taps (sink & bath etc.) should be fitted on the left or right hand side. What is the norm. in the UK ?

I am about to lay laminate in a kitchen and although the flooring is supposed to be OK for this application, I wonder how it will stand up to the occasional liquid spill(s). It is click fix assembly - not glue. Should I coat the edges with something to waterproof them, if so what is recommended ?