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Thanks all. For anyone who cares, here's the disaster which followed: Tried to get Johnstone's Durable Matt at Brewers (side note: they said this is definitely the best paint) colour-matched to the G&B sample. Unfortunately they don't do matching by name for G&B so it's "pick from this colour...

So far, no-one's indicated they're going to charge me for it. Fingers crossed. The contractor is Auger and when I started this process they said the excess covered investigation and pipe repair. I'm not entirely convinced this is true but I'm not questioning it and either way, the work needs...

Thanks, that's what I thought. Wondering how much to push the issue with the water company, as if they were at fault then there's grounds for redress. And if it was just a previous owner doing things on the cheap, there's no way to prove it and pulling that thread might start bringing some...

tl;dr bit is in bold.... After a shocker of a water bill, it's become apparent there is a massive leak in the pipework underneath my house which has begun to erode away the foundations. During the investigation work, the contractor sent by my insurance company discovered that my MDPE supply...

I'm repainting a small ensuite. The wife wants it done with one of the Graham and Brown colours, specifically Eva. While G&B do a 'resistance' finish, I'm always a bit skeptical about consumer paints, not least because the reviews here -...

Thanks all. Next possibly very stupid question. I'll be using a Bosch consumer-grade (ie green, not blue) sander. With the right adaptor, can I hook this up to a standard domestic Dyson vacuum, or would this likely destroy the vacuum?

Thanks - I'm guessing then the bits I've read about using 320 grit paper are wrong then?

I'm looking to refresh my existing kitchen oiled wood worktops. At present, they're 'textured' i.e if you run your hand over them, you can lightly feel the woodgrain. I'd like to get them so that once they've been fully reoiled, they're smooth to the touch. I've read conflicting advice as to...

Cheers - very good point about outlet faceplates disrupting the bracket space. I've probably got enough room (I've got a PS4 wall-mounted behind the TV!) but a brush plate will probably be neater once I've got some F connectors on them.

Perhaps the below photo will help. Apologies, I was a bit amateurish in my terminology. By 'new', I meant the house was new to me, not a new build. The cabling in question is in an existing extension to the house and clearly designed to provide power and signal to a wall-mounted TV. When I...

My new house has a socket box slot cut into it, but no faceplate. Instead, there are four black wires coming out of it. Both have a black skin, white 'solid' bit in the middle and then a thin copper wire dead centre. Two are quite thick wires, the other two are quite thin. Based on that, my...

Cheers all for the tips. I ended up plugging the gaps with strips of wood wedged to hold the parquet in place, and then covering with metal transition ramps. Probably not the 'pro' approach but it seems to have worked.

The previous owners of my house had a real ramshackle approach to having cabling in the house. In the bedroom, there's a satellite cable just sticking up out of the floor and in the living room there's a bright purple ethernet cable coming up out of the carpet. I have genuinely no idea where...

Can anyone help me identify the right kind of transition strip for a parquet to vinyl floor please? I've had a parquet floor put down which connects through a doorway to a vinyl floor, which is about 12mm lower. Because the parquet floor is tessellated together, it needs a firm surface on its...

My house has rendered external walls on the ground floor, which the previous owners had painted in a distressing shade of yellow. I'd prefer it to be white/cream. Am I able to just paint over the existing paint (and if not, what do I need to do?), and what paint would be recommended? I was...

The plaster was ok until the plates were removed during the replacement process. As I said, they were old, and so we didn't have a conversation about this particular factor. Fortunately I've got home this evening and it looks like they've now made good on the job.

I've had builders in (supposedly with an electrician, but we'll come to that) carrying out a bunch of works on my house, including replacing some plug sockets and light switches... Some of the sockets are pretty old and so inevitably, there has been some damage to the wall as part of the swap...

My new property has a natural wood (unstained) decking. My property also appears to be in close proximity to a wasp nest - as a result, there are almost always a few wasps rasping away and the wood and the entire decking is essentially covered with scrape marks. I'm dealing with the wasp nest...

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Thank you, that's really helpful. Much appreciated!