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Hi, We've had the whole of our house replastered (a mixture of skimming and dry lining and the bar plaster is between 5-10 months old). We are currently preping it for painting and have sanded the bare plaster walls on the 1st floor. Reading some posts here it says you shouldn't do that as...

cheers for the advice - i'll follow it. Can you get the brummer wood filler at the DIY places like B&Q or do you need to go to a decorator's centre? Cheers

Hi, We've just had lots of new timber skirting / architraves fitted and we want to paint it mainly with white gloss. Do we need to treat the scew/nail heads beofre filling and priming? Someone told me to do the following: 1. Use knotting compund directly on the screw heads and any...

cheers gcol. The current joists doesn't have noggins where the ply ends so I guess it i option 1 I'll go for. If I put the noggins in will normal 3*2 stud timber suffice for these or do i need to go for noggins that roughly the same size as the joists? Also as we're going for tiles...

cheers good job i asked - i wasn't going to use them in the elbow :)

Hi, I've got to run some 15 mm hot/cold feeds in a stud before the plasterers come in in preparation for the plumber to fix the wall hung basin. I'm gonna use plastic pipes, then a 90 degree elbow, some more plastic pipe before attaching to a flexi monbloc hose with a compresison fitting...

Hi, we were going to lay laminate in our kitchen but on the advice of some posters we are going for tiles. Half the floor is currently 18mm ply direct on to the joists. Reading on here it says 18mm might have too much flex for tiles. Is it advisable to take it up and replace with 25mm ply or...

I've talked it through with my partner and visited a couple of floor places after the advice here. One was quite honest and said that laminate is never suitble for kitchens and if the washing machine leaked we'd be looking at a new floor. So we're gonna go for the tiled option. Taking that...

seen the sticky explaining different types of flooring - so it is melamine we are going for. So I guess all I am after now is some advice on what to do regarding the unlevel floor. Marine ply sounds quite plausible - how sensible would this be. If an OK approach is it best to screw or glue...

Unfortunately laminate is the way we are going - my better half won't be swayed. Not sure if the stuff we have picked is melamine - is there a quick way of telling without contacting the shop? Regarding being cold underfoot we are toying with electric UFH for the really cold spells. My...

nipped into a plumbing merchants ont he way to work and they gave similar advice. As the pipework under the floor void is plastic, I'm gonna run plastic pipe sup through the stud for the hot and cold feed with a 90 degree elbow then a little bit more plasti pipe and two flexi hoses connected...

We've fitted a cloakroom to our kitchen and where the basin can go there is a sold and or a stud (about 70mm thick excluding plasterboard). We're gonna hang a wall hung basin on the stud and get one of those chrome plated bottle traps for the waste. The basin will have a monobloc basin...

"but why exactly did you lift the chipboard if you're just going to lay laminate?" In one word - the missus!! Managed to salvage enough of the old tiles to relay but she is worried it will be too cold (there's only room for one smallish rad (800*600 double) for a 3m by 7 m room. Saying that...

Hi, This is my first post - I had a look at some older posts and the sticky's but I couldn't find the right answer/advice so hoping someone can help and apologies if it has been answered before :) Basically we are refitting our kitchen (it is a rectangle shape about 7*3m). The entire...