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Thank you. Its more how they get damaged by the sun as well. The nice new wood colour fades very quickly

I'm putting some sleepers around the edge of my lawn at the back. I plan on sitting the sleepers on broken flags then saving sharp sand underneath for drainage. Just wondering what to treat them with. They come tanalised. I don't want to paint them. Just something that protects and stops uv...

I read somewhere brick has like a top surface layer that makes it moisture resistant. I'm guessing it needs sand blasting to be too badly damaged

May be a silly question as I know nothing about brickwork. At the back of the house their where spots of paint on the brickwork. I'm guessing from previous owners painting soffits or something and it dripping. Anyway my missus has decided to use sandpaper to rub it down and off. My question is...

May be a silly question as I know nothing about brickwork. At the back of the house their where spots of paint on the brickwork. I'm guessing from previous owners painting soffits or something and it dripping. Anyway my missus has decided to use sandpaper to rub it down and off. My question is...

I have recently refurbished my bathroom. When doing so I installed a bathroom extract fan wall mounted. It's in solid ducting through the wall I got a envirovent silent 100T fan. Very impressed. Low wattage. Good extract rate. Quiet for a wall mounted fan. The only thing that bothers me is the...

The tile are already on. As you said I'd have to rip existing boarding off and redo. Being a first for me I'm just frightened of the tile falling off. They're stuck solid but the tiles are 10mm thick. Existing were 5mm but obviously we didn't know until we took them off. So the new tile are...

The walls are ridiculously out in my bathroom. I had a tiler but he was really poor. Just stuck the tiles on. No levelling off and checking lipage and adding more adhesive to pack them off. I have a plumber coming Saturday so I got left in limbo and had to take the job on myself. No experience...

I'm currently redoing my whole bathroom. In the process of tiling. I'm laying vinyl click flooring after which is a floating floor. Should I leave a gap on the bottom row of tiles for the flooring to slide under? The bottom row will be a cut. Or should I tile to the floorboards and lay the...

When tiling around a bath do you tile right butt up on top of the bath or leave a tile spacer gap? Plumber has fitted bath and siliconed. The bath is bang on level. Do I sit a spacer and then tile or sit tile right on top of the bath?

On a wall. I know it's not ideal but the tile have been there 25 years previous. Our new bath is now also fitted so it's too late to change

My walls are plasterboard dot and dabbed on brick and a plaster finish. I have mapei plaster primer for those. I also have to tile on plywood. Which is the best primer? Could I use everbuild sbr bond? Would sbr bond be better on the plastered walls? It says mapei plaster primer is water based...

I am going to tile my bathroom. The walls are overboarded and plastered. Removed old tiles and just need to scrape some adhesive off. Am I right in thinking I need to prime the walls. I planned on using plaster primer by mapei. Should I brush it on neat or dilute it? Could this primer be used on...

Pvc ceiling cladding. I don't mind the mess as the bathroom is being stripped right out. New tiling. New flooring. New ceiling. It's battened at 600 centres at minute with it being plasterboard. Cladding ideally needs to be every 400

We are doing all of our bathroom in the next few weeks. We already have the cladding but I was wondering should I clad straight over the plasterboard or rip it down as it has a textured paint finish. The house is 1930s and the original ceiling is lathe and plaster. The bathroom ceiling has been...

Here are photos of the outside and inside at the top. I see no access to the breather tape. The lead work looks OK. Surely if that was leaking it would leak inside the room itself down the wall where the lead is if water was getting behind? So I guess take the bottom strips off and give it a...

I have no idea how I'm going to retape the top. I've no access onto the roof and it won't take my weight. Same with getting access to the lead. The bottom I can set a ladder up either side and stretch over. The top it's a lot more difficult. Especially to take the lead off all the way across. It...

The condensation does no harm. Could it be the breather tape at the bottom needs a clean? I imagine it's full of muck

The top I can't see properly because their is lead flashing over it. At the bottom their is a white plastic strip that covers it that can be pulled off. I think theirs tape behind that. It may need a clean. The only problem is I can't access the middle panels without going round to next door...

Sorry I thought it said an extractor fan that vents steam into the roof. Sorry my mistake. Like everyone else has said keep the window open and bathroom door shut when showing. An extractor is the best bet. Also drying clothes on radiators is a big one for condensation in winter. We got a...