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Hi Ken. Thanks for your reply and sorry i havent come back to you sooner but my internet has been playing up and with working ......... I will try to reply as best i can. It is a very old house bade off extremely thick stone walls which have been replastered many years ago!!! We hade a leak from...

Really need advice please. I repainted my bedroom just coming to a year ago. I took off all old paint etc which took hours, filled cracks etc with pollyfilla and sanded down to smooth then gave walls 2 mist coats i then emulsioned which looked great. Now the paint is peeling, cracking and some...

Bit of a long story but the more information you have the more chance i have of someone advising me ( I hope). I have 2 problems. Ok - i wanted to redecorate my bedroom so i stripped the wall paper off. As per usual some of the old emulsion came off some didnt so i rubbed it all down until...

Bit of a long story but the more information you have the more chance i have of someone advising me ( I hope). I have 2 problems. Ok - i wanted to redecorate my bedroom so i stripped the wall paper off. As per usual some of the old emulsion came off some didnt so i rubbed it all down until...

Sorry i have taken so long to reply but still got problem - thanks for replies though. . Ok well i do have a problem with condensation but leave windows as open for as long as possible. Its mostly happening in the middle of the wall. The house was replastered some 25 years ago but this is only...

Can someone please help. Last summer I decided to remove wall paper in my bedroom as i want to go back to painted plaster walls. I washed walls to remove paste. Gave 2 coats of mist coats then painted Dulux emulsion (2 coats). Now the paint has started to blow off the walls in areas. It appears...

Help. I have just tries to put new sealant around shower cubicle and unbeknown to me there was a layer of clear sealant which i did not take off. Result disaster it looks awful but now i am having a terrible job trying to get if off :oops: Can someone offer advice please?

Thanks yes i have solved the problem of mould the old story not enough ventilation :oops: . Thanks for your advice. Regards

To cut a long story short i removed wall paper in bedroom to find 2 walls were horribly stained with mould and mildew stains. I have used a fungicide etc. I want to just paint the walls not wall paper so my question is this should i use some sort of stain blocker? If so could you tell me which...

Thanks footprints have attempted to take a pic but it is not showing up well because i think of colour of paint. There is no heating on at moment in that room but the paint was drying really quickly (Dulux Endurance). My family are saying i am fussing too much but that's me :roll: Are you able...

I am using the Hamilton Vantage smooth and textured roller. I was told this is the best roller to use. I also bought the harris roller which appears to be less fluffy but that was worse. Any advice is my paint too/thick thin. Do i need to sand walls down? Regards

Thanks joe-90. That is my problem i am seeing the roller stipple - it must be my technique!! :(

Oh dear i have just tried to take pic but the light is not showing what i mean. It looks like an outside of an orange !! I am wondering if i have oversanded, paint to thick just don't know! What i do know is that i am fed up and feel i am never going to finish this room :cry:

Hi i used a Hamilton Vantage smooth and textured roller. I thgt perhaps the paint was too thick! Could you tell approx what consistency it should be - I know this is difficult to describe but any help would be appreciated. Please don't say i will have to replaster or there will be a divorce in...

Hi if you see my previous post you will see had walls replastered.They have had 2 mist coats and now 2 coats of matt paint but are still very patch and dimply. Going to try another coat tomorrow but should i sand the walls down first. Have read on some posts that you can oversand is that true...

Hi. I have had a room walls repleastered. They were left to dry and then 2 mist coats of emulsion painted on top - each time they were sanded down . Now i can not get an even coverage of matt paint. The top layer looks dimply and shiny in places. I have used a roller and followed countless...

Hi John Just thought I would let you know that thanks to your expert advice I now have a perfectly (well 99% perfect) level floor. I am one very happy bunny and I did enjoy doing it. Think I will take building up for a living (joke of course). Thanks again you gave me the confidence to have a...

Thanks again John. I don't know about enjoying laying the laminate floor - I certainly would not recommentd the B & Q Toughloc flooring. It chips very easily and is not as easy to lay (well not to a novice like me). That it why I am so desperate to get the concrete right as we have areas...

Thanks to Burnerman (John) for taking the time to reply. By your post I think you were advising me to use self levelling compound. You mentioned PVA glue I know this is going to sound like a stupid question to any experts reading this but you mentioned using PVA glue to help the new cement bond...

Would I be able to use quick drying cement?