Recent content by leoga

Thanks and you might well be right.. but knowing the previous owner, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he somehow found a thicker board than the wall's and just stuck it in there! I guess my key question is: Assuming I've removed the blockage first, how do you get a piece of board back in...

Yet another issue to solve in the house that I've bought :LOL: It doesn't look too big in the photo, but this is a pretty large protuding plasterboard bodge that's somehow been fixed into the wall of our lounge. Originally I was seeing if I could smooth over the edges with polyfilla (see the...

Superb. Thank you!

Thanks for this! It's not listed although neighbouring properties are. Ultimately given that we'll be painting over it, I'm not looking for a 100% authentic restoration in terms of techniques. Is there anything simpler than lime mortar to use and is cutting bricks easy?

Hi All, I moved into a Georgian house last year and am slowly undoing the previous occupant's DIY disasters. I'm no expert, but he's given me a low watermark to beat. One of my tasks is fixing an old chimney wall on the first floor. Prior to these holes below, there was a solid, off-white...

Are you sure it's definitely an app? If you have a lot of tabs open in your browser, and if you've set your tabs to reopen from last time every time you boot, it may be a webpage. Common culprits are Chat windows from company pages that are trying to get your attention. If you think this...