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A neighbour has had some lovely hardwood doors fitted to his extension and wants to protect them with something. Firstly he said he wants to paint them!! I am trying to talk him out of it as they look too nice to paint. IF he was to paint them what is the best primer to use? International do a...

Whats the best tool for trimming wallpaper edges around door frames and skirting boards? At the moment I use a plastic board with a knife but the knife sometimes cuts into the board. Can you buy steel versions from anywhere? What does everybody else use?

It looks to me like they've just wallpapered the wall using alternate rolls of paper. One length of a matt finish wallpaper followed by a length of a gloss finish wallpaper, and so on.

Oil-based undercoat over it first then your emulsion. Sealants are waterproof hence why you're water-based emulsion won't adhere.

Ahh PVA :roll:

Beat me :roll:

Firstly I would thoroughly wash the walls down to remove the old wallpaper paste otherwise your paint won't stick properly and you'll have a right mess. If the plaster underneath is bare, then, yes you will have to thin the first coat of matt down a little (depending on brand of paint used). If...

4/6 coats, you're making a lot of work for yourself. Just thin down your first coat of Supermatt following the manufacturer's instructions then 2 coats of your chosen colour will be fine.

He said internal Robbie :wink:

Cheers Paul :wink:

Cheers Robbie.

I will be painting a very large panelled garage door soon and was wondering how best to go about it to save having 'thick edges' everywhere. With the door being so big the paint is going to go off on me if I can't work out how to get around it.

Why are you tiling over them? Why don't you remove the old tiles first and do it properly, tiling over tiles is a bodge job to be honest, sorry but it is.

Why sometimes when wallpapering with a patterned paper does the pattern not match? By this, I mean the pattern at the top of the wall matches perfect then at the bottom of the wall it runs out! What would be the causes of this?

Just use a good quality oil-based primer.

Touch dry in 2 hours, sounds like its water based. I wouldn't use water based stuff outside.

:lol: Oops sorry Zampa! Yeah thats a good idea, but the beams are quite uneven in places and to get it looking right would be a nightmare I think. Thanks Kes. I still don't like the idea of expanding foam, I just don't know where I am with it, turn you're back and it's bloody everywhere! I...

Check the guttering in that area to make sure there is not a breakage causing water to run down the wall.

No Zampa they are the huge oak beams that physically hold the roof up.

Got a job coming up which is a 5/6 year old barn conversion which has shrinkage cracks everywhere. The oak beams that run through the ceiling, some of which are about 20 feet long and a foot square, have big gaps around them where they meet the plasterboard ceiling/walls. Some of the gaps are...