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Thanks, if you see the floor plans there is light from dual aspect sources, windows at 90deg in same room or directly along from the landing. I hope you will agree that 'plan B lengthways' works best overall for a strong lengthways direction from the landing through room #2 and straight into...

Yes, thanks, see below

Thanks, a few words but you have obviously been through what I posted and understood it. - I had thought likewise about breaking up the short planks with a midway joint in every other one, does that sound ok? - Also, the perimeter gap, I would like to keep it to a minimum for as small a...

Thanks, John. The longest run is 3.5m in all rooms apart from room #3 which is 4.2m. There is a 10mm gap and threshold strip at each doorway.

Thanks, yes that is my preferred option as even with thresholds at each door it is the longest full run of boarding going lengthwise. The few short bits in the doorway of Room #1 will probably blend in with the overall scheme. The semi house was doubled in size, those are old drawings and the...

Thanks dazlight. Sounds like you do this for a living? Any chance you can please look back at the plan layout that I propose in the photo plan B above - Lengthways laying? I am convinced that for the whole upstairs layout it is the right direction to lay the boards. The only hesitation I have...

Thanks, I have tried to show the rooms in photos as best I can. The old flooring is still in place and some of the new laminate has been overlaid or already down, as shown in photo of room #1 which has been part laid. That was the best direction for that room but will clash with the lengthwise...

Thanks stem, I also understood the same regarding the underfloor and the laminate being 90 deg to it. All of my floor is 22mm chipboard 8' x 2'. Only the Room #2 shown on my plan is the old pine T&G. But between the underfloor and the laminate is the green fibre underlay board, that should stop...

Your advice please on laying a laminate floor over the whole of my upstairs. It is Baltiero Stretto, with a pronounced V groove click joint and therefore important to lay it running in the right direction so that the planking lays relevant to the whole upstairs floor. I prefer to feel that I am...

Using the Dulux Soft Sheen that Dulux helpline advised seems to work. There has been no further crazing using it under the Dulux Trade Diamond matt. However, I don't know if it would have been the same using any other barrier between caulk and Diamond, not soft sheen specifically? Would it have...

Hi Opps and anyone else who can help with this crazing issue with Diamond on caulk? There doesn't seem to be a simple solution although Dulux acknowledge that there is a problem, but don’t give any hope of an improved product in future. Their helpline suggests a barrier coat of Soft Sheen on...

Thanks, that was really helpful - not! Others - thanks for the constructive comments, I'll use some kind of washer/spacer behind the glass just to keep it away from the wall, by just 2mm would probably be enough. There were stepped clear collars supplied, but the fitter used them with the 'top...

Can you please advise? I have a simple 900mm wide clear glass splashback with 4 holes that sits on the worktop upstand and topped by the fan shroud hood - see photos. The glass is fastened to the wall with 4 mirror screws but there were no spacers to keep it from touching the painted wall. This...

Thanks again. I actually think that it was Once caulk that I used in this instance, should have kept the empty cartridge. I'll follow your advice but as you can see in the photos, this isn't a few hairline cracks, it is properly crazed and broken all over the caulk area. I called the Dulux...

Great suggestion Doggit, thanks. You're right, no need to keep the frame in the same bag as the paint loaded roller sleeve. I'll do that now. Thanks again.

Thanks Opps. I'm pretty much sold on the Diamond matt which I can get cheapest at Screwfix for a reasonable £38 for 5L. Apart from the crazing which I sent photos of on a separate post, but as you said it's probably the caulk or other problem. On the 'scrubbable' emulsion, I don't really...

Thanks Opps. By OB undercoat I think it was meant that it was just brushed along the caulk fillet, but point taken with today's OB paints, that's why I am now a WB convert. I have Zinsser 123, not BIN, which has been really great to put non-vinyl matt on vinyl silk, could I use that? My caulk...

Hi hope you can help please. I read it somewhere else that there is a problem with Dulux Trade Diamond Matt white crazing on caulk. I have just experienced the same, just the day after painting. I read that it is to do with how tough and perhaps inflexible Diamond is, they mentioned painting...

Hi, Your advice please. A problem I have experienced with paint rollers staining, particularly if kept wet overnight in plastic bags etc. I notice a brown streak in the roller sleeve also on the wall being painted, and it is rust from the frame bleeding through. Even a new and apparently...

Can anyone help please? Good paint - I frequently read queries regarding which paint to use and the answers mostly state that trade paints are the best and retail DIY paints are rubbish! - that blunt quite often. I have also read up a lot on it, and I do understand the argument for the trade...