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Thanks, do you mean sand it right down back to wood, or just key it well all over?

Hi, I need to paint this door, but have no idea if its already painted with Oil or water based paint. Is there an easy way to tell? If its oil based can I just paint more oil based paint straight on? And if I wanted to paint water based paint on, would I have to sand it down a lot? Or just...

Ok thanks for the advice, I will speak to my friend about it and see what they want to do. Of course it makes sense to deal with the underlying problem. From what I could tell the sections of blown render were'nt too large, and I wondered if I could just hack them off and use Tourpret F filler...

Thanks, so what is it? And can I ask why its a summer job?

Hi, I hope this is the right forum, I have been asked to help a friend prep and paint their house. many patches seem to have these rough bumpy patches. She did say that area was quite damp. I looked online and wondered if it is efflorescence (which I only just learnt about) What is my best...

Thanks guys I got it sorted! Red needed to go into com

Hi, I replaced an old double light switch, one switch does my porch light, the other should do my lounge lights. It was an old switch with L1 L2 and L3. I followed these instructions when changing it : L1 . . . . COM L2 . . . . L1 L3 . . . . L2 And it doesn't work. I have posted a photo, any...

Yeah but why would they bother when they could have just painted over it? Like the rest of the house was just painted over and is fine. there must have been a reason!

Thanks, I'd not heard of snowcrete So the green stuff underneath appears to just be paint on closer inspection. The rest of the house is also this colour under the current layer of paint. But whats confusing is how under the bay window they used this filler/snowcrete stuff before painting. Why...

Hi, I noticed under my bay window outside it sounded hollow. Then I chopped off what you can see in the photo. But it doesn't seem like proper render, more like filler or something. It's white and a little bit soft/chalky. It seems to be only under the bay window, the rest of the house is...

Yeah in hindsight this would have been a good idea!

Great, thank you

Thanks, would you just shape a candle and rub it in, or melt it in?

I had actually considered this before, but I wonder if it will work, what if they all get bunched up at one end? I guess I could give it a try!

Hi, I'm making some built in storage into the eves of my loft room. I've made grooves for 10mm MDF to go in top and bottom for the doors. I've just tried the MDF in the grooves and it's not nearly as smooth as I hoped. I wonder if ply would work better as it's lighter. Or maybe it's because I...

Thanks yeah maybe a good idea. I'm just kind of shocked at the amount of cold air coming through. I dont remember what front cover was on it before, but maybe it was able to be closed up more

Ok so unless I want to get the open fire in use again, it looks like I can fill this vent in

Thanks, thats weird because I never knew of any open glued appliance in here. Would it also be for an open fire? There is a fireplace but it hasn't been used in 20 years. So it seems I am probably ok to block it off permanently then? I was considering a log burner at some point, so maybe its...

Hi, I've been renovating my house, and removed the front cover of this vent in my living room, I don't even remember what the front looked like. The vent appears to just be a short pipe but has some channel on the inside so air doesn't just flow straight through the pipe. I have taken this...

Thanks I just think it wouldn't look very nice, so I'd rather try and do something in the gap if possible