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The ceramic cistern for my toilet has a crack in it (sorry, it's not a great photo: the crack is from the hole that the down pipe to the toilet bowl goes into and it goes to between 10 and 11 o'clock in the photo.) Previously I've mended it with No Nonsense clear silicone applied from the...

Thanks again.

Thanks for your advice. I already have a tin of solvent-based primer. I assume this will be ok to use(?)

I've sanded down an internal door and in a few places it's gone down to the bare wood. Do I need to prime these patches of bare wood before painting the door or can I just put on two or three coats of the water-based Dulux QuickDry Satinwood pure brilliant white which I'm using, and which the...

I've just refelted my sister's apex shed roof. On one side of it most of the felt had been missing for a while so the wood had deteriorated. The roof needed 3 pieces, one for each side of it and a piece for the apex, which overlapped the other two. I used Black Jack felt roof adhesive. The felt...

Wow! I'll definitely check them out and let you know how I've got on.

Ok, thanks. And if you say they allow easier movement than castors I'll definitely check them out. Thank you.

Thanks. Yes, I had begun thinking on those lines. But I wasn't sure if there were some sort of things like mini platforms with castors on, where, if you wanted to move the bed, you just lifted each foot in turn and put it on/in this mini platform, but I haven't seen any online.

Thanks but the problem is that this would be too big to be accommodated in the bedhead foot, which is only 33mm wide.

I have an old wooden bed which is not easy to move (fairly heavy), so I want to put castors on it. The feet of the two headboard legs are rectangular and measure 45mm x 33mm. The feet of the footboard legs are circular and are 45mm diameter. I was thinking of putting castors on which have a...

Probably not that small - so caulk is an inch or so across.

Thanks. No chance of me getting that skilful!

No it's woodchip. You say that maybe I didn't leave enough time but I did give it about 6 or 7 minutes and then I was so long repositioning it etc that it was probably 40 minutes or more before I had it fully in place. As I say, I'm a rank amateur!

Thanks, but I was wondering more about whether the pasted wallpaper would stick to it?

Is it ok to use decorators caulk to fill small cracks in the plaster before pasting and hanging wallpaper? Thanks.

I'm redecorating a room that has woodchip paper on and I was just going to emulsion it all, but a couple of pieces of the paper needed replacing. I stripped those pieces off and prepped the wall well and repapered. I'm an amateur, so it took a bit of repositioning the paper to get it right. I...

Will try that, thank you.

I have a combi boiler and my bath has a mixer tap. There seems to have developed some kind of blockage to the cold tap (even though the cold flow to the sink is fine). I run the bath by first opening only the hot tap but when the water in the bath gets too hot I open the cold but this doesn't...

I'm putting up some kitchen wall units on brick walls. They're going to be carrying a lot of weight (tools etc), so as well as the two upper corner fixings I want to put wooden battens underneath them to give extra support and I need advice on how to do this. What I thought I'd do is put up the...

Thanks for that info.