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I'm hanging the lining paper vertically. I know you're supposed to cross-line when you're wallpapering over lining paper but since I'm a relative newbie to wallpapering, and doing it without help, I just wanted to do the easiest option. I'll just be careful to make sure my seams don't hit at...

Thank you for your answers. I went back to the chimney breast and with a stanley knife and a long metal ruler cut just a couple of millimetres down each side of the corner's edge, and stuck the sides back down, so it's not going around the corner, but at least it's not bubbling and uneven. I...

Hello I'm in the process of wallpapering (well, just lining at the moment) one of my bedrooms which contains a chimney breast and I'd appreciate some advice/tips about wallpapering the external corners. I've wallpapered once before (but only dealt with half drops because of a dado rail)...

Hello Our downstairs toilet does not have a radiator and as you can imagine gets incredibly freezing in winter. There's a lot of mould in the corner of the room (exernal walls where the stopcock is situated) that we presume is damp caused by condensation, that's spreading; so we were...

Thanks again, I appreciate it :D

Thank you for your response. I found some PVA in the shed this morning, so I have applied the first coat as a mixture of 5:1, as per instructions on the tub. For the second coat that needs to be tacky do I keep the proportions of water:PVA the same, or make it thicker? Now off to buy some...

About a year ago I had a plasterer repair some sections of a bedroom walls that felt 'blown' - one section was above and to the side of the window. I'm not sure what he used (as I didn't stand over him while he was working) but the final coating of plaster around the window looked white. The...

Hello My bathroom is tiled up to the ceiling on the walls where the shower is positioned, but on the other 2 walls it is tiled halfway up the wall and finished off with a decorative tile trim. This trim is about an inch high, is made of plastic or something similar and has a sort of rope...

Hello A few years ago the council converted my pensioner father's bathroom into a wet room as he could no longer manage climbing in and out of the bath. The white capping strip (I'm not sure if that is what it is ... a horizontal plastic strip that separates the curved flooring from the...

Hello Last spring I had my kitchen rewired before having a new kitchen installed. The electrician did an electrical inspection of the house before he started any work which didn’t throw up any problems. He then removed the old consumer unit (a big white plastic box type thing) with a modern...

I've already sized all the walls, but the filled in bits still seem very porous. Thanks, opps.

So, should I just re-size the 'joint compounded' bits? Or should I invest in some proper wallpaper primer sealer like Zinsser Gardz?

Thanks for your response. The stuff he used was called 'Sheetrock (presumably the brand?) Lightweight All Purpose Joint Compound' I know this because he left half a tub of it when he went. In fairness it was mostly used around the windows and the corners of the room where he'd 'sharpened' the...

Hello I'm about to wallpaper a couple of our bedrooms. The house is about 70 years old and the walls have been papered in the past. However, a few months ago I got a plasterer in to improve the appearance of some of the walls as a lot of the original plaster had blown in places and was in...

Well, I tentatively started the shower this morning, had it on 'Low' rather than 'High' flow, and the shower head was on the gentlest setting ... and it worked. It wasn't the strongest flow, admittedly, and it seemed to fluctuate, but at least I was able to use it. I ended up not...

If the above doesn't work, we'll look into this. Thank you.

Both the Water Supply and Reset lights were on constant, not flashing, and the light above (indicating that the water was selected to high pressure). The unit was emitting a high pitched beep. I haven't tried resetting and commissioning the shower yet (whatever that is ) :? Like I said...