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I have taken the skirting and architrave back to the wood and used Danish oil on them. The problem is the walls have been replastered and patched up several times over the century since the house was built and are completely uneven and in parts overlap the skirting. Normally I would draw a line...

I thought that but wrote to Colron to check and they replied "Thank you for your email. The Danish Oil does have a water proof finish and does not require over coating. Please be aware the Danish Oil is not for floors this product is not designed to be walked upon." Although they had no idea...

I am rebuilding an old staircase and landing with reclaimed wood and some new wood for a couple of treads. I have washed the boards and used some Colron Wood Reviver on them which has brought out the orignal colour I now want to use Colron Danish Oil Jacobian Dark Oak and a Mahogany to match...

I am replacing the main stair case with a cut down metal fire escape. Bit like this but not as grand or expensive and in a two up two down terrace with the bit on the back. I just want to keep the three stairs on the landing leading from the extension to the main part of the house. They dont...

I am trying to replace 3 treads on the stairs but the only firm I can find that supply them in the width and height I want is Skirting Boards Direct which has an horrendous list of negative feedback on trustpilot.This has put me off ordering from them. Are there and trustworthy alternatives...

I thnk they are mainly from when a loft hatch was put in

I have a few hairline cracks in the hallway and stairwell ceiling which I can only reach with a long arm. Is this Polycell ceiling paint any good or a waste of money. Any alternatives as I dont want to pay anyone to paint a few square metres or hang off a ladder in the stairwell.

My 16 year old nephew wants to turn his room into a bed sit. Sanding the floor is the main job I can hire a drum sander for £36 for 3 days. He has already sanded the edges with hand sanders and the floor is about 4m x 4 metres with two coats of emulsion paint on them. Unfortunately I cannot...

I have been laying scaffold board decking but as much as I clean the boards to almost white as soon as I apply wood preserve the wood darkens considerably. If I apply clear decking oil only it preserves the orginal colour and patina of the wood far better. As decking oil is waterproof would...

I am working on some decking made of old scaffold boards. A colour I want is in Manns water based stain for internal use. I will be staining the bare wood after cleaning then covering with Barrettine Wood Preserve and two coats of decking oil. I have already used water based food colouring...

I am making a scaffold board walkway and am quite happy with seconds and all their gouges and knocks but it is the variation of colour and grain that is my problem After treating with wood preserve the first example I have posted has a reddish finish with a pronounced grain while the second...

I am using Fulham Timber Merchants Green Treated SE 4" x 4" Fence posts as the foundation for a walkway, laying them on the ground and laying scaffold boards across them. The boards I am treating with wood preserve and external decking oil but I have contradictory advice about the treated...

Thanks for that, lewist100. Nice and straightforward. I have some liquid seaweed concentrate. Never used it yet but is that the same as Miracle Grow ? There are so many different typs of ferilisers (if thats the word) recommended. I just get confused. The same with advice on composts for seeds...

That makes more sense than throwing it all away and starting again every year. I took up gardening to take it easy not spend all day shovelling compost about. Thanks

Being a beginner I am going for a Sarah Raven Lime Sorbet Pot Collection which is made up of Lupins Petunias and Oasteospermums. Growsure has zero peatin its container compost

It that dig out and throw the compost and the plants as well ? Or do i replant them in new compost ?

I doubt if he could get in there if he was 15st ! Its less than a metre and a half high at the wall and slopes down to the floor within 2 metres. I am only 1.67m tall and I am banging my head when I am crawling along the wall. Although I take your point.

Got a bit nervous and put down an extra layer Maybe not needed but made me feel better . It was 4mm to start with which was a little bouncy between joists but is now solid. But because of the lack of height I am not up there for long and doubt if I will be up there very often either.

For the first time I am planting some container plants from Sarah Raven. I have an old galvinised chicken feeder, an old dolly tub and an old bath. I understand I need to drill holes in the bottom of all of them and use some container compost,possibly Gro Sure Container Compost and nothing...

Not much space up there. About 1.50m tops reducing, and about 4 metres long for me to store boxes. The joists are 40cm apart. I am only going to store boxes of books and other stuff that I can carry up there on a ladder so nothing too heavy. Probably just a single line of boxes about 50cm high...