Recent content by Andy-K

Last year I painted over some interior stained wood. I sanded it down, used a water based undercoat and Dulux quick drying water based satinwood. Since, then I’m continually touching up the woodwork as it chips and flakes, resulting in the stained wood below showing. I’m thinking now I should...

I had pressure treated pine decking put in 6 weeks ago and treated it with Seasonite three weeks later. I notice that a lot of the knots in the wood are disintegrating leaving unsightly holes. It almost like there’re rotting away. Is this normal or has poor grade decking been used?

I fitted a new flush valve due to leaking seal. The seal on the new valve is fine, however I've got a small leak between the valve and the cistern, causing the water level to drop and the toilet to flush. I can't get the lock nut any tighter. Any suggestions on how to seal the valve...

Thanks Was looking arround the at differnet products and was thinking about using Seasonite New Wood Treatment rather than decking oil. Anyone got any experience/opinions on this product?

i've just had a new deck of pressure treated softwood installed last week. I'm planing on giving it a couple of weeks to settle in then treat it with liberon Decking Oil. As it's a new deck can I just give the deck a brush and then apply the oil or should I apply a decking cleaner first.

I have an existing 6’ x 4’ garden shed sitting on a concrete base. I want to replace the existing shed with a 8’ x 6’ shed and existing concrete base isn’t big enough. I don’t want to dig up and lay a new larger base, so what’s going to be the easiest way to extend the base. My thinking was...

My existing Howden kitchen doors are foil over lacquered back and front with matching edging. The foil has peeled away on many doors due to moisture, so looking to replace them. Most of the replacement doors I’ve looked at are vinyl wrapped. Firstly what’s the difference between foil...

I have sommer click style laminate flooring in the house. It extends from the living room through to an extension on the back of the house. I suspect it was layed at the same time the extension was built. Anyway as the extension has settled slightly, it has caused the laminate flooring to...

I have a traditional terrace house, with a basement. The basement is not full head height and can only be accessed by a hatch and has no ventilation other than ventilation bricks. As such it's only used for storage and unlikely ever to be used for anything else. Water seeps into the basement...

The hot water to my bathroom, which goes the the sink and bath is supplied from a vented hot water cylinder. The cold water is supplied from the cold water tank. I already have a manual bath mixer shower, which I want to replace with a thermostatic bath mixer shower. I also want to increase...