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Hi, I’ve used Dulux heritage (light French grey) to paint a bedroom wall then farrow and ball purbeck stone (estate eggshell for the skirting). I did the wall first and painted onto the skirting slightly to ensure there would be no unpainted bits near the wall-skirting junction. I then cut in...

Hi, I have some interior woodwork I want to do in a few bedrooms - doors, sash windows and skirting. I wanted to use their estate eggshell topcoat. Is their dedicated undercoat the best to use or do other brands work better? For instance, would Zinsser 123 plus be a better undercoat for sash...

Hi, We have a kitchen extension which has failed render (all delaminated). I don’t really like render. Unfortunately the bricks underneath don’t look good so I was thinking about cladding it. I want a fairly rustic look so was considering wooden cladding. Any advice on what timber to use...

Hi people, Current setup is a vented cylinder with stupidly low cold water flow rates. So low that even if I bought a pump for the taps it isn’t enough to trigger such pumps! The reason being that the loft space is TINY. I found paper work showing previous owners had condensation issues so they...

Dear forum, I want to change the faceplate of this push button Lutron dimmer switch to a standard. I am unfamiliar with the lettering/symbols of the current one: So it has L, 1 and a symbol which I know is the comm symbol (live feed). The one I want to swap it for has what every other...

Hi people, I have recently purchased some new downlight fittings for the living room. I bought one at first to ensure it was compatible. The one I tried was a simple levering of the two springs to pop the old one out and the new one in. Of course, now I have bought a set for the lounge the...

Hi, I want to move a kitchen socket because we are having new worktops and the upstands will be 100mm and one of the sockets is 70mm above the worktops currently. Here is the socket: The red box is where it needs to go to be clear off the new upstands. I also wanted it more central. The...

Hi, Since we moved into our house we noticed the kitchen extension render is delaminated (80% +). Main reason seems to be because they rendered below the DPC as it’s a suspended floor with a cavity. The render below dpc was 100% delaminated to the extent I took most of it off with my bare...

Hi, Fairly quick and simple question. We are having our driveway block paved. Our driveway is round the back of the house in comparison to the road therefore all the pavers have to be taken round from the pallets next to the road to the drive area using a small dump truck. The workers started...

Hi, I have a series of recessed garden wall lights outside and a couple of them have gone. I have attached a picture. Any ideas how you would remove and disconnect them to change the bulb (or fixture entire if necessary)? I have a few larger ones of the garden steps which have alan key screws...

Hello, I have a big dip on part of my kitchen windowsill (picture attached) which rings very hollow when you knock on the bit where it dips in middle shown by red arrow. If you look closely and follow the silicone bead you can see how much it dips. There are bricks under the windowsill but...

Hi, I recently moved into new house and downstairs cloakroom extractor fan was not working. Purchased a new one and still no luck. Tested voltages and found out that yellow switch live coming out of wall was dead. I searched on forums how to solve this and found a thread on here...

Hi, I have just had some aluminium French doors fitted and I am not pleased with the aesthetics. The holes for the bolts underneath the door have been drilled into the aluminium frame and just don’t look good at all. I raised this with the company and they said there is no room on the design of...