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We have 2 sets of patio doors in our extension and have been thinking of changing them as they are very old and my daughters friend smashed the inner pane recently forcing us into a decision so I started reading up on types and we fancy 2 sets of bi-folding doors. Googling this it seems the...

Hi I am struggling to find something for caulking outside, what can I use. I basically live in a mock Tudor house and need some caulk to caulk the gaps between the render and the timber planks. Is there a good product easily available for this? All I keep finding is internal decorators caulk...

Hi i have a 1930's mock Tudor house and I am decorating the front. The Mock Tudor effect is done the typical way of having black painted planks fixed to the walls with white painted render in between. There are planks that runs down both sides of the UPVC window (of the bedroom on the first...

Hi I am painting some timber cladding on the front of my house. While I was preparing it a few bits of old paint came off exposing the timber but on the whole 80/90% of the old paint is sound, just tired looking. I bought some Sikkens Rubbol XD Gloss and some of the recommended primer to go...

Hi I have a 1930's mock tudor house and need to paint the black wood again. I am in a row of several houses and they face north. The front of these properties, ie the garden areas always appears to be a little damp compared with the back gardens and the front render seems to suffer quicker than...

Hi after loads of research I am heading towards getting Johnstones Pliolite masonry paint to paint the render on my house. We have render on the front that has the paint flaking off every 2 to 3 years but has previously been painted with B&Q water based paints. On the side(its a semi so one...

Hey not very nice lymmranger you are having a go at me about a reply but yes I posted the question but not that reply, it came from mrcrow. Anyway guys thanks for the help, any further advice welcome. I will check a few things and come back with answers to the questions raised soon.

Hi, my mother would like me to renew her toilet flooring with lino, she currently has underlay and carpet in there. The room is very small at 0.8m x 1.5m so is quite tight to work in. The floor underneath is quite rough surface concrete, i.e. it would show through any lino so I was thinking of...

Hi We have a 1930's house and I am decorating my bedroom. We have the original window cill which have been poorly painted in the past and I have stripped it. As expected it is pine although it seems to be of a fractionly darker and stronger quality stuff than you get at DIY places. I ripped...

My neighbour has one of those wooden worktops that looks like blocks of wood, I think you can get them in Ikea to give you an idea what I am talking about. It is mouldy in one or 2 places as they always get it so wet and leave it like that too long but particularly so where they have a...

Hi JohnD thanks for that, so are you saying to fill the cavity completely, is it ok to fill between the joist on the first floor to fill completely with mineral wool, I have seen it done before I must admit? The reason I am thinking of doing it is because I have access to it better than I...

Hi I have a typical draughty 1930's house with suspended floors and I understand a fair bit about insulating the ground floor. We have air bricks back and front on both floor levels and of course it gets pretty draughty under the ground floor and there is a void of about 10inches under the...

Cheers for the reply RF Lighting so should I change the ballast, i.e. are they cheap and easy to get hold of or is it not worth bothering and therefore means a new fitting?

Hi I have some HF (quick start) fluorescent fittings in my garage and 2 sheds and a couple have failed after a few years use. They are the tough weatherproof type. I have changed the tubes but that has not made any difference so any ideas what is most likely to be wrong with them and what I...

Anyone able to answer my questions pretty please?

Hi my Mum has asked me to replace her faulty shower pump which has been playing up by not cutting in and has now stopped altogether. I have got a photo of the label but cannot work out what the model is apart from the fact it is a Monsoon 3 bar twin, is that the model as I am worried there...

Hi my house is 1930's and I was doing something under the floor boards and found some black conduit with what looks like fiber cloth covered cables inside. They are stranded and all cut off, ie not connected so don't worry. They are singles and thicker than 2.5mm. I tried scratching the metal...

Will this one be ok with ball valve, i.e. they wont foul each other?