Recent content by ElPanda

It's probably more than I deserve but it helps her things done. I've only not used this forum with my iPhone once ever. I'd really appreciate that if you could have a look. Don't go to more trouble than you can be bothered with, mind! If there IS a floor specialist in the dark ages, AKA...

Money is stretched & I jumped the gun when you mentioned 'buying cheap.' I try to get stuff which lasts and what you said struck a nerve. But you didn't say anything wrong and I apologise. I guess I'm just a bit embarrassed that this has happened. It's not your fault. At this point, I'd just...

I have a Dyson vacuum cleaner, an iPhone 5, a Sony Bravia TV and a disabled with with severe asthma. Suffice to say that if I could've afforded something which could last longer, I would have!! The difference in price to get something better to floor my home was going to be £6000.

I have the cheapest laminate flooring imaginable and I'm getting gaps here and there and it is raising up in one or two places too. Is there any tape strong enough to hold it down in key places once I get it all aligned again. I don't want to move all the furniture only for it to happen again...

Thanks again so very much for all the help. I don't need to do your test to know that it's definitely plasterboard. I remember how thin it was from last time I tried so I can do your test in hindsight!!

The internal walls are all definitely partition walls. The wall joining to our neighbours house sounds more hollow than any other external wall I have ever knocked with my knuckle. The external wall just happens to be the only bare wall in our living room. Anyway, thanks for the help. As soon...

I have tried using a powerdrill but I didn't realise I had to go so far into the brick. I also have no idea if I'd go right into the neighbours house!! I've thought for a while that there's a gap behind the plasterboard but I mentioned it to someone and they said that process doesn't exist...

Hello, complete newbie here. My DIY experience doesn't stretch very far and I'm doing it out of necessity more than anything else. I feel that I'd probably enjoy it if I'd had some tuition as a child and, as a result, been at all good at it. But failure is always an unenjoyable experience...