Recent content by adam80

I'll take a photo of the tiles and post it up here for tomorrow, might help. Basically the floor is stone tiles, on top of that were these thin black tiles. Then on top of that was a carpet. The tiles were not put in by the person that laid the carpet. I'll be honest, I've no idea what a...

My girlfriend and I have just moved in to an ex local authority flat that was in a bad state of repair. We are renovating the entire property. On the first day in we pulled up carpets and noticed that there were some broken tiles underneath and thus would need to be pulled up so new flooring...

I had thought of that today actually, cheers for the reply. Is coving a bit of a botch job though? Is there any way to do it so that it is neat and tidy without covering it up?

I have just stripped all the wallpaper from the bedroom in my new flat. The previous owner did a terrible job and had left random shreds of paper on the wall and then painted over them. Should I get paint stripper and remove any traces of paint before sugar soaping the wall? Main question...

Hello, thanks for the welcome. I'm pretty sure that the walls are not load bearing, but we're checking it with the local council - it's a former local authority place. If they can't be knocked down it really spanners the plans for the kitchen! Is there another way to find out if a wall is...

I have just bought my first place and will be fitting a brand new kitchen. I have two questions - the first is that there are built in walled pantry/cupboard areas that I wish to knock out to make the kitchen a larger surface area. How do you ensure the parts where the wall meets the floor...