Recent content by oldmanriver

Thanks for your reply, dcdec. Could there be more to it than that? It seems a bit much that the paint can't tolerate getting a bit damp. If it is just a case of the paint being inadequate for the job, though, I'll get in touch with Dulux and demand my money back.

I painted the living room/kitchen in my flat light blue and white about a month ago (2 coats of white for the white walls and 1 coat of white and 2 coats of blue for the blue walls), but today when I went to wipe a little mark off the wall, I noticed the cloth was also wiping the paint off...

Thanks for the tips, guys. It seems that my drilling assistant wasn't completely familiar with the correct technique, as I was able to drill into the brick myself without any major complications by not drilling at full speed.. (If a job's worth doing..) Now the problem is that all the places...

Thanks for the reply, rebuke; I think I probably could get a bigger rawl plug to sit firmly in the hole, but the mouth of the hole was expanded a bit when I hit whatever hard surface is behind. If the rawl plug grips the wall deeper in the hole, can I just use filler to patch up around the...

I'm not really sure whether there is metal behind the place where I'm drilling, because some of the holes seem deep enough, just too wide now. My guess is that I have hit a particularly hard bit of concrete. I couldn't say for sure, though. The hole was drilled with a 6mm masonry drill, but...

Thanks for the reply, Symptoms. I will look into getting hold of one. Regarding the holes I have already drilled, it has been recommended to me to remove the debris and fill them with cement, and then drill into the cement once it is dry. However I am concerned that the weight of the unit...

I've been trying to mount a kitchen cupboard to a concrete wall by drilling a couple of holes and using rawl plugs. I can drill one of the holes fine, but the other hole refuses to turn out neatly. It feels like the drill hits something hard and instead of going any deeper, it starts to expand...