Recent content by matahari

Thanks for all your helpful comments, look what I found today in Wilko! :mrgreen: Does everything, no gun required, sticks and grouts, £3, sorted!

There is no ceiling below. This is a ground floor extension, and it has a concrete floor. It is attached to the back of my Victorian terrace house. Never mind, I'll just have a go anyway.

Thanks Bob, I think. The backing is rendering of some kind, not plasterboard. The bathroom is a ground floor extension built about nine years before I moved into this house twenty four years ago - it's entitled to a bit of wear and tear after 30-odd years! I don't think the builder bodged...

As a lady of a 'certain age' on a pension, I won't be doing a proper job I'm afraid. Agility and money are not what they used to be, any more! The rest of the tiles around the bath are fine, it's obviously where the shower hits the wall that these few have come unstuck. Should I seal the wall...

My problem is a few tiles which have become detached and need sticking back on again. They are being held on by the mastic around the bath, and I don't want to take them off as the job will snowball! I am drying out the wall behind them so I can just apply a few dabs of something, but I don't...

Hello John, no not bare floorboards, but my two elderly and not terribly well cats need to to be able to come and go. Litter trays and food bowls etc can't be confined to one room. I do have some of those under-door tube things that keep draughts out. They're quite effective. And a door...

Thanks, footprints, some good ideas. Trouble is, our Wickes for example, you can't LOOK at draught excluders - you have to look in a catalogue and choose and some spotty sixteen year old kid goes and gets it. No advice any more, you have to guess. I bought some last year from there and it was...

Thank you, footprints. I do have a heavy curtain up, which unfortunately doesn't reach to the floor, but I will look out for another one. What I have done is seal down the gap with parcel tape! It leaves marks when I take it off (removeable with WD40), and it's inconvenient when the postman...

Help, I am COLD! My eleven year old, three-lock composition front door leaks the North wind straight into my front room where I sit. I think the draught excluding felt strip in the frame is worn, but also recently I had problems with locking the door, and the window/door repair company came...

It is an early example of torture by television.

Dextraneous, thank you! I have found a supplier on Amazon who don't charge for delivery! That's marvellous. I have just ordered a big bag of the stuff. Hopefully my house will soon smell better! Bicarb is wonderful stuff, it really works, and it's safe around animals.

Parting with my cat is not an option! I have tried ringing round Boots and local chemists but none of them Can help. I can get large quantities via the internet, Amazon etc, but the delivery charges are extortionate, that's why I am trying to find a local supplier. deluks - I'm not a...

Baking soda only comes in 200g pots - I need KILOS of it! snico, would you mind telling me the name of the manufacturers, possibly contact details? They might be able to advise me. I am really desperate.

DIYNot has never let me down and now I need some really specific and local help - PLEASE. I have an elderly cat with a leaky bladder and the only thing that can help soak up the problem in my carpet is Bicarb of soda. I need large quantities of it. Trouble is, I can get it from the...

Thanks Pigeon, but it would have to be lockable because the people round here are unbelievable. They would take any post that wasn't tied down! My garage posts weren't concreted in (only temporary ones) and they took those!! :roll: And what's a degreasing detergent? Can you recommend any?