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Hi all, Need to help the mother in law out....... and i have picked the short straw. Need some advice on painting her new place. Anyway she has just been given a bedsit/flat by the council as she was living with other family members for the time being. She works and is on low income so the...

Hi all, I am redecorating one of our bedrooms in the house and spent the whole day prepping (My granddad who was a decorator said the prep is more important than the painting) and today I painted the first coat of Dulux white silk on the ceiling as the ceiling had already been painted by...

Think I will vinyl silk the celling white and prime and vinyl silk on coving white then paint walls silk as they already have silk on celling and walls so will make life easier

Many Thanks for that info on the primer. I will look it up on Screwfix. What grit sandpaper would you use on the coving before applying the primer then paint. Also off subject a little but the walls and celling have a shine to them as well so looks like vinyl silk was used before. Am I best...

Hi all, We want to give our rooms a quick refresh as we plan to stay here for a few years but one thing I have noticed is I am not sure if the coving has been painted with gloss by the last owner. To me it has a shiny finish but I cant tell if that's silk or gloss Should I just rub down the...

Hi Its just a Mira shower over the bath and yes we use both. There is no room above the bathroom. Its an extended part of the house so it only has a slope roof with roof tiles on. Chris

Hi all, We have a downstairs bathroom which has a bath and shower and we have no kind of extractor fan fitted in the room. The only kind of vent is a celling mounted grill that is located above the bath and is connected to a flexi pipe to an outside grill on the wall as the bathroom has 3...

Well I have ripped the carpet up to find patches of urine stains on the foam underlay. Both now removed from house inc some parts of gripper that also smelt. Floor has been brushed and I mop using stardrops disinfec product as well as washing down skirting and walls with same product...

I also have some stardrops pine disinfectant. Would this be better and more safe to use than bleach mixed with water Chris

What ratio is it best to use when doing bleech and water

I had thought about bleach but was not sure if this would work or not. someone has recommended this product below but the data sheet says for carpets http://www.prochem-uk.com/product.php?xProd=61&xSec=16

Hi all, We have just moved into a house and the people before us had a dog we think. When viewing we did not notice the smell but now we have moved in we have noticed the dog smell and maybe the odd urine smell in places just on our downstairs carpets. So we had a local carpet cleaning...

Umm Well I think I left mine to long between coats. I did the water down coat one night left it overnight then the 2nd neat coat then left it a night before I was going to tile but I did not get as far as putting tiles on Chris

But even the first coat did not soak into the plaster as when I removed it today the first coat which was water down came off as well with the neat coat Do you suggest I do a test area but water it down a bit more like 4 to 1 instead of the 3 to 1. Also it does not say on the primer how...

Hi, I did brush down before applying and applied a coat of 3 water 1 part primer then a neat coat Chris

Hi all, I applied Tile Master PrimePlus Flexible Primer around my bath and sink and for some reason it peels off very easy and has not soaked into the plaster skim so I did not start to tile as I thought it would pull right off with the weight of them if I had carried on. The plaster...

Hi I have had an email from Zinsser about Gardz as I wanted to double check with them as we are not sure if the celling has PVA or not you see. They said the following about Gardz I have discussed your problem with a colleague and we have some doubt as to whether the Gardz would be the...

Hi Today I sanded the celling with 120grit using my sanding pole and it seem via flakey and dry when sanding and did not feel smooth so I wonder if there was not any PVA on it and someone just did not paint the first coat correct last time. For miss coats of dulux is it best to do 50/50...

So if PVA is on the celling would this stuff still soak in as there is already a layer of PVA? I guest there is no need to miss coat the first coat of paint and when you mean about filling after do I just fill then paint the areas I have filled with this stuff then the normal paint Chris

Hi So do I just prep the celling like I would for painting if using this stuff. i.e sand with a 120grit paper to remove any holes I have filled then clean off dust then roll the stuff. I plan on just painting it with Matt Paint after. How does the paint fix to this if its a sealer? Chris