Recent content by talia

I will try to get some decent pics later and will post. I understand that the floors themselves are concrete as the house was built in the late 1970s, and when we lifted the carpet section we could only see vinyl tiles. The wooden strip is about 3 inches wide, and seems pretty solid.

We've just moved into a 1970s house and as you'd expect there's artex everywhere! What's the average cost of covering artex with new plaster? We need the hallways upstairs and downstairs done, and the stairs themselves. We also removed wallpaper in the living room only to find horrible walls...

We've recently moved into a new house and our living room used to be a separate room and a hallway but the wall was removed. However, no work was done to marry the flooring between the two rooms. The hallway has old fashioned tiles (which aren't particularly even) and the rest of the room is...