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At the moment, there's a small cinderblock wall of about 900mm high x 1200mm long, that is the original balustrade in a 1950s build house. I want to remove the wall, and install an oak and glass handrail/balustrade, and it is just 1 newel post attached to stringer/joist, and a half post at the...

Finally getting round to boarding the walls my stairway this weekend. Already done the ceiling and the easier walls, to get into the swing of it, but it occurred to me that, despite me being quite tall, even if I could lift the board at full stretch above my head, it's still not enough, and as...

I have banged off back to the brick, and am dot and dabbing 12.5mm boards on. I PVAd the wall with a 5 to 1 mix and then again with a slightly stronger mix, but the walls are still super absorbent and it is sucking the moisture from the adhesive and the boards are not sticking properly. As...

So, I've bashed all the ceiling plaster and old boards off, back to the joists, on my landing and as always, there's something holding me up. There are 4 visible joists, all at different heights. There's a 40mm difference between the highest and lowest spots, along one wall alone. The loft...

I'm plasterboarding the stairs, and as always in this 1950s build, I banged all the old plaster off back to the brick, and the wall are massively out in all directions, but notably, there's a bulge in the middle, almost all the way up. I was going to use plasterboard adhesive, but to use 12.5mm...

I'm looking at banging off the plaster on my landing and stairs (and then plaster boarding, sealing, filling, painting etc). The high point is quite high, so will need to use a ladder. I have a smallish 2 piece combination ladder, and I was thinking of making some kind of L shape platform that...

It was all going so well! :ROFLMAO: I've removed the old plaster in my hallway back to the brick in places, and filled all round the edges with foam, mortared the old brickwork and I was just trimming the excess foam off and bzzzzzzt, right up my arm. I feel OK, index finger is a bit hot, and...

I've boxed in some pipes and there's a small external corner that I have built out with a wooden frame, and then it meets the old existing corner. I will be fixing to the wooden frame, but about 20cm x 7ft of the new board will be over an old, 2 part plaster/ and mortar wall. I will prime the...

I've done a load of boxing in of pipes in my hallway and it all needs jointing and taping. It's not large areas, but some of the joints are 2.4m long and maybe 15cm wide, but mostly smaller bits. I've already got the paper tape, and I have got a 5kg bag of Toupret interior filler, would there be...

Does anyone know of a spanner/tool for getting in really tight spaces where a compression fitting is in between a wall and another pipe? There only looks to be about 6mm ish, either side, so whatever it is, needs to have really narrow, pointy jaws. I have tried a 24mm split ring spanner, but it...

I'm looking to build a lean to shed/workshop on the side of my house. It'll be slightly narrower than a single garage, and will be a shed/workshop and storage area. I was going to build it using the same methods as a garden room, fully insulated all round, wood construction and a couple of rows...

I have fitted a new MDF MR, pre primed window sill. The existing white primer had taken a battering during the install, and there were some bare MDF ends that I had shaped. I used a couple of generous coats of Zinsser BIN (which was a right ball ache to apply) filled in-between coats with...

Morning all, I have a large MDF window sill that needs painting. I'm going to try the Scuff X as it is quite a high traffic area in a busy house. The MDF is primed, but there are areas of it that are bare MDF and have been sanded to shape and there are lots of scrapes and dirty marks from...

I have a U/square shaped window sill/board that is 25mm thick and it will comprise of 3 pieces to make up the shape. I was wondering about the joints. As it is just a window board, would something like a 45 degree mitre and an adhesive like mitre bond be enough to stop it opening up when the...

I prepped my walls, lovely and flat, but made the mistake of using easifill, so having read about it flashing, I did some reading and used Gardz as there was quite a lot of filler, but it was most definitely flat visibly, and to the touch. When the Gardz dried, the filler had changed shape, it...