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Hi, Iv recently moved into a house with crappy woodchip floorboards, in one room I have placed screews about in inch from every nail. This has improved things, but on a few spots it still creaks a little. A frend told me that I should have used a nail punch on the nails before adding...

Hi john, what product would you recomend...and who should I get into do this, would this be a general builder, or maybe a carpenter?

Hi, Iv just moved into my new house, and its great......apart from the floor boards. There those cheap woodchip ones, and they bang, creak, and pop whenever you walk around upstairs, and it ecos down stairs quite alot. Anyway, In one room I have lifted the carpet and put a load of...

i belive they are cavity walls. The new plaster does not contact the floor, its around 1 to 2 inches off the floor. "If the back boiler is still working, how is it flued" thats a good question, I dont know...The boiler still works, but theres somthing else I notice from time to time. When...

Small update.... after looking at the damp in the front room, and the looking outside it would seem that maybe the problem was being caused buy some large tiles that my wife had put on the soil to place pot plants on. I think (hope) that the rain water was getting trapped underneath these...

Hi We have recently replastered, repainted the house ready to sell. Now, over the last few days with all the rain we have noticed that some of the walls are damp at the bottom. The walls are damp in two places.. 1: front of the living room, meter wide and about 6 inches high 2: on...

what kind of undercoat would you recomend?

cheers Eddie, the original paints prettty good, just a few chipped parts here and there from use over the years

Hi All, we are in the prosess to redecorating the entire house, and so, we have doorframes/window sills that all need a new lick of paint. At the moment eveythings gloss white, and I would like to repaint them in white gloss. Can I simply repaint them with a new coat of gloss or should I...

Hi guys, maybe you can offer me some advice. Im looking to repaint one of our rooms but I have a small problem... It turns out that the people who owned our house before us painted the room with matt emulsion over glossy paint, now the paint that they put on is peeling away...