Recent content by Max1ne

Thanks. I have already bought some sugar soap so will try that first. If it doesn't, I'll give oxallic acid a try.

Hi. I have used meths and wire wool to remove dirty, old shellac from a footstool with turned legs. It has left a black residue of dirt in the grain which is proving difficult to sand away (because of the awkward fiddly shape & the fact that it's ingrained). Is there an easier way to clean off...

Good grief! That's awful. It could be the way the photo is taken but isn't that a cupboard directly above the loo? It looks like you'd bang your head when you sat down or stood up. Did you buy the house off dwarves?

Thanks Symptoms. I think our plaster is very soft, the breeze blocks are rock hard but I think thepanel pins weren't long enough to go into the breeze block. I'll bear screws in mind for the future for more tiling projects.

Hi Ben, I have just finished helping my husband tile the bathroom floor with porcelain (I did all the cutting). He bought a Plasplugs Contractor Plus electric tile cutter from B&Q (on offer at ~£50). The blade that came with it was not much good so I bought an extra blade (the diamond edged one...

I was a bit impatient earlier - I hadn't waited for all the grout to dry. ALL of the grout is now an awful pale grey / white colour. I scraped the surface of part of it and revealed a much more satisfying very dark grey / black colour. If I have to, I'll scrape the whole lot but is there an...

I thought I had. Sorry. :(

I've just finished tiling the bathroom and used panel pins to fix the battens. It seemed to be ideal & worked well but should I have not done that? Was I lucky? Maxine

We've just tiled the bathroom floor with black porcelain tiles and grouted using Unibond (I think) anthracite (very dark grey / black) floor grout. After cleaning off the dry reside using tile cleaner, the grout lines have dried with patches of white which I am struggling to clean off (I've only...