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Ah, ok, might give that a go. Thanks.

Thanks Robbie. I took all the shelves down to paint them and I think it was a while before I put them back up, more than two three weeks I think.

I decided to spruce up some shelves, which had previously been painted with white oil based paint, with Dulux Pure Brilliant White QuickDry Satinwood paint, which is water based. I firstly sanded the shelves, washed and dried them and then gave them 2 coats of the Dulux. They look fine but if...

Ah, thank you for pointing that out. The box type bracket is fixed to the side of the cupbd but only with two small 3/4" long screws so I think quite a bit of weight must also be distributed through the roof of the cupbd, so probably best to fit battens as well.

Ok, thanks for that. Perhaps I should have said that I'll be keeping DIY tools, boxes of screws etc in one of these cupbds (small house and don't have a shed). Hence the reference to the weight being carried.

I'm about to hang some kitchen wall cupbds onto a masonry wall. I've got the right brackets for the top RH and LH corners of the cupbd and also some wall mounting plates to hang them on. The cupbds will carry a lot of weight and I was wondering if I need to also put in place supporting battens...

No recent changes in CH etc but it is a 1920s house and the floorboards above are not even, firm and flat.

It was just skimming over what was there already, which I think was plasterboard although it might even have been the original plaster laths. Above, there is the floor of a back bedroom. Two of the fine cracks seem to match the sides of an airing cupboard in this bedroom and the other crack...

A few weeks ago I had my kitchen reskimmed. I haven't got round to emulsioning yet but I've noticed three hair-line cracks have appeared in the ceiling. They're each no more than 1m or 1.5m and, as I say, only very fine line cracks. The plasterer came back and looked and said that you couldn't...

About 5 weeks ago I had my kitchen reskimmed but I haven't redecorated yet. Near the kitchen sink, behind the washing machine, a couple of patches of powdery white deposits (effluorescence?) have appeared, also a patch near the kitchen door (both patches on outside walls). I'm now wondering if I...

Thanks, that's reassuring.

Thanks for that! I'm less worried now!

About a month ago I had my kitchen walls and ceiling reskimmed. It hadn't been touched (even re-emulsioned) since I moved in 34 years ago (yeah, I know) so there were various big cracks in the emulsioned walls, and where the walls meet the ceiling the plaster was crumbling (which made me wonder...

The reason for the new layers of felt and the vent tiles and new dry ridge was to cure the condensation problem but I'm not sure it's made much difference.

Fair comment, as I believe was your reply to Mw Roofline. The main reason I think this guy was a cowboy was as follows. On the day he carried out the work he asked me if I could pay him in cash (which he'd never mentioned when he gave me the estimate a few days previously) as he had some cash...

The vent tiles were of the type that have a wide pipe coming into the loft and then on the outside roof the profile is a bit like a ship's funnel. The scaffold used was some sort of suspension type. Anyway, as I say, the two guys were there for no more than seven hours and let's say an hour...

I live in a mid-terrace street house and I had a problem with water staining in the corner of my small back bedroom, near the eaves. I thought this might be caused by condensation coming through the plasterboard from above. One of the roofers who came to price for the job pulled a couple of...

Thanks mate. I still don't think I completely understand how it works but your explanation has certainly given me food for thought. So the CH warms the air up and it is now able to absorb more moisture. But you would think that anybody breathing that air would now be absorbing more moist air...

Thank you for that. Will look at the lap vents.