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this has happened to me (woe to those who let the mrs loose with a paint brush). luckily i spotted the runs on the skirting board (mainly by the paint on the carpet :shock: ) before they had completely dried so i went over the runs with white spirit to thin the paint and wiped any excess...

we haven't done this yet but we're going to have a fence about 3 or 4 ft high with the posts an extra 2-3 ft above the fence level and then trail some wire from post to post (like errr.... a wire fence i suppose). we'll use these wires for climbing plants Etc... cuts back on fencing costs...

:lol: :lol: :lol: PMSL :lol: :lol: :lol:

hey lisap reckon your getting the hang of it :P not just any fitted carpet...... but a nice 70s style-E SHAG PILE carpet. swift 1: facy coming up to my place for a bit of shag pile? swift 2: only if you swallow..... i'll get me hat :oops:

arf arf arf :O) hurrrumppph - all those years...... mislead.... i feel cheated :? lol reckon this is the one for DIYers brick

That sir, is a top idea... the stove is actually a kind of enamelled purple (don't you just love deco!) but by-eck bigdave i reckon your onto something. might even pop down to *ahem* b&Q at lunchtime to see what goo they do. cheers matey :D

cheers Adamw - i thought about that but then realised it would've been a bit pointless fireing up the bbq for one lickle swift - i'm going to wait until i get me hands on the whole family :shock:

hmmmmm slimfast :shock: that's why i'm asking - lol it's on the ground floor but we have a cellar underneath (so floorboards) - it rests in a tiled health about 1 1/2 inchs thick (or whatever the regulations were when i put it in). i don't think it needs anything fancy just a little...

aren't birds great i've had to release 2 swifts from my loft room this weekend - the first got him/herself into a carboard box so it was an easy case of taking the box to the window and tipping it out - whoosh jobs a good un yesterday we found another one on the stairs - i tried to pick it...

morning all we finally managed to pickup our log burning stove the other day (very nice 1930s art deco affair). unfortunately when you walk across the room the vibration is picked up in the stove and it rattles (stove on tiled hearth in chimney - flooring = floor boards ). i reckon...

reckon that'll sort it :O) cheers mate

hand't thought of the damaged worktop thing - good thining batman. :D so have you ever seen/tiled a 'tiled worktop'? intrested in how to go about it, plus any possible drawbacks (i can think of food/liquid sitting on/staining the grout but that's about it - well the grout cracking Etc but i...

^^punt^^ update have been told NOT to use MDF as tiles don't stick (or something.?) anyone else got any tips? tatar

i've used normal paint on internal brickwork. got some el'CheapO white stuff from B&Q to prime the bricks (couple of coats) then some proper thick stuff over that - jobs a good un' as far as i'm concerned - been like that for a year or so and no flaking Etc.... tatar

well that's fair enough then :O) reckon i'll give it a go with the s/p idea and if it goes wrong i'll re-use the door for the 'next size down' door frame - lol tatar...

good ole' Reg Prescott - pmsl :lol: :lol: :lol: so why with the planer and not a jig saw then?? i need to replace 4 doors and will need to take off at least 1" from each door - i was expecting to just to knock off 1/2" from each side with a jig saw (with one of those distance locks (?)...

ok i know it's a bit old but...... has anyone else tried to do this?? if so any hints/tips would be very welcome. forgot to mention i'm going to be using mdf instead of chipboard - would that going to cause any problems?? cheers

hmmm i always thought that was a pre-requisite for joining the armed forces :lol:

what! AND the shouting?? :P :lol: :wink:

we had a quote for our house last year £25 per sq meter for upto 10m sq £20 per sq m for upto 20m sq £15 per sq m for over that they did say the more you need doing the cheaper it gets....(to about 10sq m i think) seemed really expensive to me so i did the 7 walls myself - doesn't look...