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The wooden facia board on the south side of my house has a lot of shakes in it. I've tried removing all old paint sanding and filling them prior to painting with Dulux weathershield primer and top coat, but within 2 years it had cracked and peeled off Any advice other than remove and fit...

I am looking to repaper a room 12ftx12ft with dado rail. The existing is a painted blown paper. I have been quoted £230 labour to remove existing, make good and repaper, with paper suplied by me. Is this a reasonable charge, and if not what should I be looking at?

Some mindless moron has kicked a dent in the door of my Mondeo, and to save money I was looking to do a local repair. I have resprayed classic cars and bikes using cellulose, but have never tried doing a local repair using clear over base. My question therefore is can you blow in a small area...

I would like to replace a broken terracotta tile on my bungalow roof, and seek advice I have some spare original tiles ( They don't have nail fixings but appear to clip onto the battens) and would like to know how to remove the broken half that is left, and insert the new one. Is it a case of...

I have replaced my consumer unit with one having MCBs, and find that the ends of two circuits are too short to connect to the earth and neutral rails. My question therefor is can I extend them within the cu by using connector blocks?

The electrical installation in my wk end home failed the domestic installation inspection on the following points The consumer unit which has a isolator switch and MCBs is mounted on a wooden frame(looks like original equip) which holds it off the wall by approx 20mm One of the ring mains is...