Recent content by markpickering

Anyone got any tips on cleaning up old tatty skirtings? Just moved into a new place and the existing skirtings are a bit of a mess. many coats of paint, lumps, plaster, old telephone cable etc. i was hoping to maybe get them stripped back to the bare wood and repaint but not sure how big a...

We recently got our bathroom suite changed. The connection from the back of the toilet pan was smaller than the existing waste pipe so the plumber had to fit a narrower pipe to the wast pipe to allow the connection. Since then there has been a bad sewage smell that wafts every so often...

Got my hall skimmed about a week ago and looking to get it painted soon. The plasterer had suggested 2 coats of thinned emulsion before a final coat of good quality emulsion. At B&Q the paint lady suggested to us to coat with a sealant before painting, we opted to buy the sealant but just...