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Please help!! I’m trying to decorate my flat & its not going well. I had a wall moved 2 months ago & have got to decorate the lounge, hall & bedroom, I’ve been doing the prep & trying to paint for over 2 weeks & I don’t seem to be any further forward. I bought a 5ltr tin of trade...

I'm just covering raw plug holes that have been filled & sanded back and scraper marks where the old paint is peeling and needs taking off before repainting. Nothing major but I want the finished result to look good & as I've chosen light colours flaws will show through. I've bought...

In the process of preparing to decorate & I'm finding the old paint if flaking off the exterior walls & it looks like the walls weren't sealed/mist coated when they were first plastered. The plasterer I have skimming the ceilings reckons I should skim the walls but at £200 a day he would say...

Quite possibly but my pipes don't make the noise when I use water and I only have mains water.

Also the overflow from their tank is constantly dripping into my garden saturating the ground and making the wall wet! I had a bucket under it for a few weeks and was collecting more than 5 gallons a day! Every month I tell them, they do something (??) the drip stops for about a week and then...

I live in a ground floor flat and hear a humming/rushing noise every time the upstairs neighbour uses water. The noise isn't a bang or vibration, its similar to the noise if refilling a combi boiler. They still have storage heaters and a cold water tank upstairs and I hear this noise every...

I've got a recess in my bedroom which I use as a wardrobe and want to replace the curtain I use as a 'door' with sliding doors. The recess is wall to wall so I don't need a carcass or end panels, I'd like 2 doors by-passing each other, the ceiling height is 2.4m and the opening is 1000mm, what...

Thanks for all the advice, think I am going to stick with my original choice which is engineered wood!! :D 'Woodyoulike' - Thanks for the link very useful!! 8)

I'm thinking of using Therma-Coat (manufactured by Thermalite) on the ceilings and walls, has anyone used this before? Is it any good? The paint on some of the walls to be decorated is peeling off, if I get it all off & sand them back can I use the Therma-Coat as the primer before painting...

I live in a shoebox of a flat & am looking to replace the flooring. I've been told to make the place seem bigger I should use the same flooring throughout. I need to do the bedroom, hall & open plan kitchen living room. I would like a wood floor but there seems to be a raft of contradictory...

Good news... the shower is fixed!! Wasn't the water pressure at all, the temperature knob was stuck & not aligned properly so although I thought I was in the hot water range the knob being misaligned meant I wasn't and now its not stuck anymore it turns much further. Lovely hot water & plenty...

I think I'm going to be cursing?! I had the bath taken out & replaced with a shower enclosure, I've got a combi boiler & he didn't do anything in the kitchen & kept turning the stop cock on & off! I think he just took the cold water feed from the bath & extended/adapted the pipes to go up the...

Is this something I'm going to locate/be able to do myself? Is it likely to be behind or in the shower unit? otherwise all the pipework has been tiled over. Don't know if the pressure is high in general but the water does blast out of the taps if turned on that little bit too far! Used to...

I had a Redring Slimline 650c 9.5kw electric shower installed in June 08, every time I use the shower I have to turn the temperature dial up more & more to get anything above luke warm water. The guy who installed the shower has moved 250 miles away so I called Redring (Applied Energy) & they...

fed up of being cold!